{"id":81,"date":"2016-07-01T05:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:24:38","slug":"carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Dogs with New Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By James Coomey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New technological advances have begun to bring innovation to journalism that will revolutionize how every day news is created.<\/p>\n<p>This revolution has allowed groups like the MIT Media Lab to lead the way. The lab is focused on merging the ideas of science, media, and data analyses to create an arsenal of tools for journalists. Matt Carroll, a research scientist in the lab, has his own opinion on where the profession is going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are changing incredibly fast,\u201d Carroll said, referring to the ever expanding array of tools available to a journalist. Carroll is a renowned data journalist whose work is portrayed in the movie \u201cSpotlight\u201d. His 27 years in journalism provides perspective on how the business has changed over time.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B82NJli165VZYmNXSzJJSXJPS0E\/preview\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the future of journalism, Carroll had a word of warning;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it [a style] works now it might not work in a few years as other things are superseded by new tools and new techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of this rapid change in digital superiority, Carroll and his team have been creating intuitive programs to combine technology with writing.<\/p>\n<p>One such program is \u201cFold.cm\u201d which streamlines the writing proccess. The website allows writers to create sidebars with videos and pictures to support or explain the ideas mentioned in the story, with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Though this program is highly intuitive to new users by design, some tools are not so obvious, leading other companies to educate users.<\/p>\n<p>Google has become one of those educators. They partnered with Poynter Institute to train 10 professional journalists in the new \u201cNews Lab\u201d tools late last summer.<\/p>\n<p>One of those professionals was Boston University Professor of Journalism, Michelle Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in this very cool transitional period\u201d Johnson said when explaining the host of new journalism tools. \u201cWhat they\u2019re trying to do is make sure that we get the kind of training that is most useful for us and our professions,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tools Google is creating are \u201cChanging the way that we teach, or the way that we learn\u201d Johnson said, making them quite revolutionary.<\/p>\n<p>One such tool is \u201cGoogle Trends,\u201d a program that allows journalists to keep ahead of the public&#8217;s interest. The tool allows users to see what words or phrases are trending though an algorithm run through Google&#8217;s search engine. Through this, journalists can see what stories captivate, and what stories seem boring to the public.<\/p>\n<p>With the tools coming out of places like Google and the MIT Media Lab, tomorrow\u2019s journalists will find just how important these programs are to the craft.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, with the ever expanding support that comes with these tools, like the teachings from professionals, journalists will adapt, and \u201cMore reporters will be comfortable doing data reporting,\u201d as Matt Carroll predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> Matt Carroll, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, has an opinion on how tech advances will impact journalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decision-career"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7G3EK-carroll","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pg2_carroll01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/therevolutionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}