Andy's personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from Andy's life.
Created by ojtimeline on Nov 30, 2008
Last updated: 02/20/11 at 05:41 AM
Protests start in Egypt. Social networks and microblogging claim (and are claimed) to play a huge part in organizing the protest. Twitter in particular becomes vital for journalists tracking the event.
WikiLeaks and five major newspapers from Spain (El País), France (Le Monde), Germany (Der Spiegel), the United Kingdom (The Guardian), and the United States (The New York Times) started to simultaneously publish the first 220 of 251,287 leaked confidential—but not top secret—diplomatic cables from 274 US embassies around the world, dated from 28 December 1966 to 28 February 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=4&bl=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1292778173-fMW1SzDCUGvclejwT3KnJA&pagewanted=all
"In July, WikiLeaks released 92,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and the end of 2009 to The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel." - I'd argue that this brings wikileaks in to the mainstream.
http://wikileaks.ch/
Infamous legal firm Carter-Ruck server The Guardian with an order to limit what they can report about questions to be asked in Parliament
Social media users, specifically Twitter users react en-masse. Flashmobs are organised. Documents appear on Wikileaks and by the end of the day a Carter-Ruck back down.
A lesson in how the legal system is challenged by new media and a benchmark day for social media. But it was also as a prime example of how old media and new media can compliment each other
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/10/13/trafigura-guardian-gagging-order-parliament/
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his second term as president sparks a series of protests questioning the validity of the election.
The full weight of new media is bought to bare in covering events. Twitter gets huge mainstream coverage as the ubiquitous #iranelection elevates the app that of singular source for breaking news.
As well as social networks, maps and video play their part in covering the events.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2009/iran/default.stm
November 26, 2008: Terrorist attacks at several locations in Mumbai, India, were reported on Twitter almost immediately after they happened. An article at Forbes.com sums up the role played by Twitter.
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/
http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/real-time-citizen-journalism-in-mumbai-terrorist-attacks/
From the start of the campaigning for the candidacy to the election result, this presidential campaign has proved to be a defining moment in all aspects of online coverage. UGC, breaking news, blogging and multimedia coverage have all been employed in the coverage of this historic event.
Just months after Mayhill Fowler, one of the Huffington Post's 'amateur' journo's, gave birth to "bittergate" she does it again catching Bill Clinton's "fiery denunciation ("slimy," "dishonest") of Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum."
The journalism industry cries foul, yay and wtf in equal measure.
Source:http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-fowler7-2008jun07,0,7012425.story
Source:http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/deep-inside-bittergate/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bill-clinton-purdhum-a-sl_b_104771.html
A key moment for microblogging, as news of the earthquake spreads on Twitter (and Chinese IM service QQ) quicker than any official channels.
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-the-chinese-earthquake/
Peter Hain resigns over donations revealed by UK political blogger Guido Fawkes, who in 2006 broke a story on an affair by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott which he claimed lobby correspondents were sitting on.
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.order-order.com/2008/01/how-guido-destroyed-hains-ambitions-in.html
The clampdown that followed democratic protests in Myanmar was seen around the world thanks to blogging, moblogging, and social networking sites. Journalists were not allowed in the country. Even after the government cut off the internet, bloggers located outside the country continued to post material. (h/t Sandra Fish in comments)
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/28/myanmar.dissidents/
BBC correspondent Robert Peston breaks one of the biggest stories of the year - not on TV, but on his blog.
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/09/rock_or_crock.html
A gunman opens fire at Virginia Tech, killing 32. Students on the campus shared rumors and news reports among themselves via their native communication channels, such as Facebook; big media eavesdropped and re-broadcast these reports. In addition, a Wikipedia page created at 15:16 UTC (11:16 a.m. local time) on April 16 was updated and edited throughout the day by multiple authors. I may be wrong, but I think this was the first really significant use of a Wikipedia “current events” page. Noam Cohen wrote a good article about this phenomenon for The New York Times.
Source:http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/
http://www.roanoke.com/vtshootings/wb/xp-index
Dave Winer wins his $2,000 bet (made in 2002) that blogs will rank higher than the New York Times for the top 5 news stories of 2007 (h/t Bob Stepno), demonstrating the importance of blogging in news distribution.
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.longbets.org/2/
Talking Points Memo blog breaks story of US attorneys being fired across the country, demonstrating the power of involving readers in an investigation, and carrying it out in public (h/t Albert in the comments).
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/how_talkingpointsmemo_beat_the.php
When mobile phone footage of the execution of Saddam Hussein leaked on the web furious debate followed. What could you show, couldn't you show and if everyone can get it on the web, why can't you show. Where all questions prompted by this defining moment in UGC.
Irish Times journalist, Fintan O'Toole, said
"The unofficial video of Saddam's execution can be seen as the moment when the new media age moved definitively from shaping the reporting of events to shaping the nature of those events themselves..."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2007/jan/06/saddamsexecutionadefiningm
http://www.wordblog.co.uk/2007/01/01/millions-are-watching-saddam-die-should-they/
A coup d’état in Thailand, reported to be peaceful and bloodless, was shown to be exactly that in contemporary photos posted on Flickr.
http://flickr.com/search/?q=thailand+coup&d=taken-20060919-20061001&ss=1&ct=0&w=all
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service cites the blog run by the New Orleans Times Picayune during Hurricane Katrina. The flexibility of blogs during a disaster which stopped printing presses and delivery trucks was driven home (h/t Bob Stepno).
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/7072
Bombs exploded in London tube trains and on a bus, and passengers reported the aftermath by sending photos snapped with their mobile phones. Longtime journalist Tim Porter documented this on his blog, and even National Geographic saw fit to comment on the role of cell phone cameras in reporting these events.
Source: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2005/london_explosions/default.stm
Asian Tsunami: more blogs mobilise around a disaster, of particular significance for video blogging
Source: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://tsunami.archive.org/
2004: Rathergate/Memogate: CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast a story about George W. Bush’s National Guard service, and within minutes a section of the blogosphere mobilises to discredit the documents on which it is based. Dan Rather eventually resigns as a result.
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/51195.php
Christopher Allbritton raises $15,000 through his blog Back-to-Iraq 3.0, to send him to report independently from the war, demonstrating the ability of blogs to financially support independent journalism (called the ‘tip-jar model’).
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
Salam Pax, the ‘Baghdad Blogger’, posts updates from the city as it is bombed, providing a particular contrast to war reporters ‘embedded’ with the armed forces and demonstrating the importance of non-journalist bloggers
Source:http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_dear_raed_archive.html
Trent Lott forced to resign after apparently pro-segregationist statements made at an event and initially ignored by mainstream media, were picked up and fleshed out by bloggers
Source: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/15/lott_case.html
September 11, 2001: The Internet failed. Sites such as CNN.com were inaccessible within minutes after the second plane struck the World Trade Center. News sites scrambled to adjust, with all Ted Turner’s properties (for example) converting their servers to carry CNN news. We watched this event on television — for days. However, the Internet also triumphed: We received numerous eyewitness reports from inside New York via blogs and e-mail, at a time when phone access was compromised for almost everyone trying to call in and many trying to call out. An early study of how people used the Web at this time: Online Structure for Civic Engagement in the September 11 Web Sphere, by academics Kirsten A. Foot and Steven M. Schneider.
Source:http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/
http://www.interactivepublishing.net/september/
It may not be journalism but few can question the impact that the online encyclopedia has had on the news and how we get it. Wikipedia is still one of the first sites many will visit for 'news'
"ncreasingly, it has become a go-to source not just for reference material but for real-time breaking news — to the point where, following the mass murder at Virginia Tech, one newspaper in Virginia praised Wikipedia as a crucial source of detailed information."
Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=cc8a71cf15fcaff4&ex=1340942400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=cc8a71cf15fcaff4&ex=1340942400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Often cited as the first Citizen Journalism site on the web. Founded by Oh Yeon Ho it's influence has spread far beyond South Korea
http://english.ohmynews.com/
The Independent Media Center (indymedia) was set up to get 'grass roots' coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle.
Source: http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php
The 'brand' has now spread with hundreds of individual indymedia outlets all over the world.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
The Drudge Report breaks the Monica Lewinsky story. While Drudge denies the site is a blog, it demonstrated how the nimbleness of an online operation could scoop the mainstream media.
Source: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/11/20/are-these-the-biggest-moments-in-journalism-blogging-history/
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm
[Between the 1997 general election coverage and the planned roll out of the BBC news website] came the death of Princess Diana and suddenly we had a major news event to reflect online. We created a new website to remember Diana and asked people to send in their tributes. We were inundated, with more than 7,500 messages - too many to process and publish.
On the day of the funeral, a handful of us covered the event live, rapidly writing stories on every aspect of the story and posting images that captured the day.
It was the first time BBC News had done anything like this online. It showed the strength of the web as a platform for breaking news and helped to legitimise the Internet as a medium for news.
Source:http://reportr.net/2008/11/29/from-diana-to-mumbai-breaking-the-news-online/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/diana/
The election changed the course of British politics, with an end to 18 years of Conservative rule and the coming to power of New Labour.
The night of the vote, a small team of journalists were huddled in a room in West London, posting stories and and publishing the results online as they came in.
The site was due to be wound down after the election, but it had built up such momentum online that the BBC kept it going while it geared up for the launch of BBC News Online in November 1997.
http://reportr.net/2008/11/29/from-diana-to-mumbai-breaking-the-news-online/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/frameset.htm
Salon is considered a pioneering publication for Online Journalism. From its birth in the early years of the web through battling with pay wall politics and beyond Salon has been a benchmark by many working online.
Source: http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php
http://www.salon.com/
German subscription daily The Schweriner Volkszeitung was one of the first German newspapers to get an online presence.
Source: http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php
http://www.svz.de/
April 19, 1995: American terrorists (not Muslims) bombed a federal government building in Oklahoma City (168 people died and hundreds were injured). I was working at The Washington Post’s very new online news operation, which had no Web presence yet (it ran on a proprietary platform, sort of like the old AOL). We journalists used the Web frantically and continuously to gather facts and background information throughout the day and into the night. The Web was our primary tool, and we were many hours ahead of the print newsroom. But in 1995, most journalists did not have access to the Internet at their desk.
Source: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/breaking-news-online-a-short-history-and-timeline/
http://www1.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=66740
die tageszeitung or Taz as it is known, was one of the first German newspapers to make the whole content of every daily issue available on the internet
Source: http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php
http://www.taz.de
Swedish daily Aftonbladet is credited as the first European newspaper online and has continued to be one of the most popular Swedish sites.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/
German News magazine Der Spiegel, went online in 1994. first to Compuserve users and then beyond.
Source: http://goa2003.onlinejournalismus.de/webwatch/10jahrechronik.php
http://www.spiegel.de/
Ask most journalists to guess where the first online source of national news was published and they might stab at New York, Seattle or perhaps San Francisco. Some might guess Los Angeles or London. In fact, the answer is Galway in Ireland. In 1987 Liam Ferrie, a Digital Equipment Corporation employee based in the town, used DECNET to send out a weekly summary of Irish news to colleagues in the US.
Back then Mr Ferrie didn't realise that he was the cutting edge of journalism, but 17 years on his newsletter still survives in the form of Emigrant Online - a hugely successful news site aimed at Irish expatriates.
Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/53395.php
http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/53395.php
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