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ONA workshop at Unity:
The media landscape has changed. Distribution of content is no longer a
guarantee. More and more, audiences engage in "feedthink" and not
"packagethink"; content, therefore, is more important than
presentation.

This means we must own our content everywhere, and aggregate relevant
content from elsewhere onto our sites. We need to take advantage of
existing distribution channels to get our content out there and to
improve how we cover news and our beats, including:

- Email
- RSS
- Blogs
- Widgets
- Microblogs
- Social networks
- Semantic web
- Contextualization

USA TODAY's database team,is hiring these two new positions available.
Database Editor

USA TODAY is adding a database editor to help our growing team develop interactive graphics, break stories and produce great enterprise. The position requires strong analytical ability, a passion for news and strong writing and interpersonal skills. You'll need superior skills in Microsoft Excel and Access plus a strong background in interpreting data in a news context. Preference will be given to candidates with skills in Web development tools and languages, including but not limited to Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET, XML and others. And because our mission is developing, learning new skills will be a part of the role. Experience with Census data a plus. Three to five years experience in a news-related database role required.

Web applications programmer

USA TODAY has an opening for a Web applications developer who will help our growing database team develop XML-driven interactive graphics and database applications. This person will work with database editors, reporters, rich media specialists and IT developers throughout the organization to assess data needs, prepare databases for deployment to the Web, create interfaces for data input and analysis, and provide feedback on usage. The ideal candidate will have expert skills in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, XML, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript and other languages in addition to a strong desire to develop skills in open-source frameworks. Journalism background is not required, but a passion for news is desirable and strong attention to accuracy is a must.

Big Daddy Newspaper Has Gone and Left Journalism

From pressthink, Jay Rosen's blog.
Jay has done the linking and provides the context for this latest case of "blaming the messanger" screeds being heaped on an intern, who seemed to be relieved that someone (her boss, Janet Coats, an editor for TBO.com) seemed to be, if not understanding everything about media in the digital age, catching on.

So all of the newly laid off (I am sorry about anyone losing a job, don't get me wrong) and the boring group who never need to learn anything new because they have worked in a newsroom for (SUBSTITUTE SOME BIG NUMBER HERE) years, and those people for whom print = godliness, started venting on the intern. Jay goes through the arguments and points out some of the best posts about this, including the most sanctimonious self-appointed guardians of the faith to measured analyses of how things are today in a mediated world. I like Stowe Boyd's observation that

What the newspapers' management fail to understand is the end of mass: people simply do not hold with mass identity now that they are free to find human-scale identity, and once they find it, they will not go back. Newspapers and other mass media is falling first and fastest because we are rejecting the ersatz, mass belonging that they offered, as part of the expansion of the industrial Western democratic ideals. This means that we are rejecting both the good and bad embedded in that dream; but at core, we know that much of what makes up our dreams today has been manufactured, like the sequins on a designer dress, or the sparkle in a Hollywood starlet's eye.