#dbtwitterstafett – avisa betyr visst noe

I går ble det klart at kunngjøringen av oppsigelser og permitteringer av grafikere (typografer) i Dagbladet endte full konflikt i avisa. Hele grafikerkorpset valgte å forlate arbeidsplassen i protest etter et fagforeningsmøte.

Det var en stund uklart om avisa ville komme på gata i dag. Etter hvert kunne sjefredaktør Anne Aasheim fortelle at avisa ville komme ut, om enn noe påvirket av aksjoneringen, se video.

De første reaksjonene fra folk i artikkelkommenteringen på nrk.no var klart negative til det de mente var ei “drittavis”:

Men etter hvert kom det fram de som støttet avisa, og som for all del håpte at den ikke skulle komme i så alvorlige økonomiske problemer at den kunne gå under. Jeg satt på jobb og fulgte litt med på hva som ble sagt på Twitter om Dagbladet. Utpå kvelden kom det stadig flere meldinger fra aktive nettbrukere om at de ville kjøpe avisa for å aktivt støtte Dagbladet som unektelig sliter. #dbtwitterstafett var født med denne meldinga fra @helgebirk:

Så har Dagbladet en stor nok tilhengerskare til å overleve? Har omleggingen den siste tida hatt noe å si?

Oppdatering 21. april  - 13:28:
En kollega på jobb har skrevet en liten sak om Twitter-aksjonen: Twitter-aksjon for Dagbladet (nrk.no)

Tags: avisdød, dagbladet, journalistikk, media, social web, twitter

#mumbai – a web 2.0 news agency

It’s been written many articles about Twitter and the social web and how it spreads news during disasters and big events, for instance at NRKbeta. What I as a journalist consider very interesting is the possibilities to get first hand reports from people on the ground. One nobody on the ground is maybe not a trustworthy source compared to an official statement. But what about 200 people reporting through the social web?

During the terror attacks in Mumbai news and reports spread extremely fast helped by Twitter and the simple phrase #mumbai. By marking all postings about the developing crisis in the Indian city it was possible through Twitter search to get a news feed updated faster than any ordinary news agency.

But it isn’t the same as a news agency. The #mumbai-feed has a mix of citation/links to ordinary media, eyewitness reports from the area and the thoughts of the users, and there is no one editing the stream of information. So there might be a problem that it is filled with thoughts and postings with little new information. Though there is some self justice, as users posting too much without useful information will be bashed by others:

dfk1986 not happy about spam in #mumbai

But then again back to how it can be used by regular journalists. My opionion is that the postings should be divided into: citation from regular media, eyewitness reports and thoughts.
A pure eyewitness feed would have been very useful. Maybe something like #mumbai-eyewitness with self made rules saying what is posted has to be self experienced. Then the people in Mumbai could tell about cable black out, mobile jammers, silent streets etc. A feed like that would give the regular journalist info that can’t be retrieved anywhere else.

Of course the citation feed also can be very useful as thousands of users watching tv, reading websites and listening to radio is faster updating than any other regular news agency with a certain amount of employees. So we should also have the mixed feeds as #mumbai:

Tags: india, media, mumbai, social web, twitter, web 2.0