Many media entail a generic role of content selector or gatekeeper. Specifically, there are buyers, content acquisition specialists, editors, phone screens, reviewers, or other selectors of message content who choose content for publication, performance, or other variant of storage and/or delivery through the medium.
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But there is still a need for the community-building, consensus-shaping role that the best of the media gatekeepers can play. The question is, who’s going to play it? And how are they going to make it work economically? ... Matt McAlister :: Inside Old Media and the role of the editorial gatekeeper...
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"The notion of a gatekeeper who filters and decides what's acceptable for public consumption and what isn't, that's gone forever." ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Blogging changing media's gatekeeper role...
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Definition: Gatekeeping is a media term used to describe the filtering of stars and coverage through television and print. This derives from the gate in a camera through which the film has to pass before it is broadcast to the targeted audience.
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"Because they put themselves in the gatekeeper role, they've got to take their lumps," said Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS, an online newsletter following Apple. ... Opinion: The Weekend Interview: Taking On the 'Democrat-Media Complex'
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Net Gain: A look at journalism's wired future ... It's time for mainstream media to trade in their gatekeeper role for a reader-empowered brand of Interactive Journalism; This in-depth look at online journalism appeared as the cover story of the November 1996 issue of The American Journalism Review.
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Insistence that there's an editorial gatekeeper required in the media model is going to hold Old Media back from embracing New Media at any truly valuable level. The editorial gatekeeper is a role that won't go away, but it's importance is quickly fading.
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One Classroom is the outgrowth of a $2 million grant from the Cleveland Clinic connecting 1,500 area schools to the OneCommunity network, making rich media content created by ideastream, including lesson plans and other educational content, available on-demand.
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The classical gatekeeper role model must die! Public Relations is still centered around the old gatekeeper role model because classic media works as a so called 'relevance filter' and like every filter can be manipulated in many ways. ... email this story ... share this story on facebook...
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Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, who occasionally gets things right, brandishes her Old Media bona fides in a column today. Over at BMG, regular poster "Ernie Boch, III" has been agitating for a boycott of Howie Carr's radio show. ... Vennochi on Anonymity: Preserving the Gatekeeper R...
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