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What is a citizen Journalist?
This made me smile. Not saying I agree. Just made me smile. A definition of citizen journalist by Seth Finkelstein in response to a post by Dan Gillmor about defining the loaded term “person who wan...
Why are journalists so bad at handling breaking news online?
Bill Dunphy thinks he has some answers to that question. Bill is a Senior reporter for a Canadian newspaper called the Hamilton Spectator. and he’s been looking at the way the media reacted to a...
Interesting links for August 11th
Final Cut Pro: Tips on live capture from Sony and JVC HDV cameras - An FCP tip for HDV camcorder users Final Cut Pro: Aspect ratio of imported images is sometimes displays incorrectly - Apect ratio pr...
The virtuous circle of journalism process
Say a quite word of thanks dear reader to Mr Kevin Anderson. Why? Let me explain. Yesterday I posted a graphic that tried to sum up some of the problems that still exist as we try and engage with comm...
Community, audience and Journalism
I’ve been thinking about how journalists, community and audience interact and the problems that cuases. I do think that the media see audience and communities differently - that’s one of t...
The Grassy Knol: Google’s ‘attack on media’
The appearance of Google Knol seems to be causing some consternation in the J-bloggashpere. The general tone is that the search giants new ‘encyclopedia’ is a step too far. Danny Sanch...
Linking on News sites: Give a little to get a little
Links out = links in That’s John Hassels simple headline for his post looking at the value of linking out from your site. John picked up on a study by David Eaves of The SEO Company who challeng...
Music industry lessons.#2million
The Guardian has an article outlining BSkyB’s plans to build an itunes killer in partnership with Universal. The new service, scheduled to launch this year, will combine an unlimited on-demand j...
links for 2008-07-22
Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it | Comment is free | The Guardian “There’s something uniquely demented about slotting spe...
Seesmic and the newspaper debate
Paul Bradshaw has been doing a little ‘pre-blogging’ over at Seesmic with a question about what we should be teaching journalism students. Some of the responses go as far as to suggest th...
Journalism - a legal definition
It’s carnival of journalism time again and this month Doug Fisher is in the chair. As has become the form over the last few carnivals Doug has suggested a topic: What changes will need to be mad...
links for 2008-07-09
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog » Blog Archive » FT.com embeds video in news pages Cool. About time. They have some good stuff and channelling it off is never a good idea. (tags: FT video) Refrig...
Time to get your head round Fair use
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I commented on a post from Bill Thompson about suggested changes to European legislation that ‘may’ open the door to the music industry having the power to ba...
Turning the tide…more lessons from the music industry
The law. It’s a legal minefield isnt it? (always start with a bad pun) As a journalist time was you only had to worry about libel and contempt and anything else got referred up. Now, the law for...
links for 2008-07-07
Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism “Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by onlin...
links for 2008-06-30
Beat Blogging - Using a blog as a conversation starter to engage users “Some posts simply serve to be conversation starters”. I agree but would say that all posts should be conversation o...
Making journalism a numbers game
The formula shows that the lines are the same colour as the car. I don’t watch a lot of TV when it broadcasts, I tend to catch it online, on digital replay or on repeat on one of the many digital TV...
Green is a local journalism niche
Take a look at this list Deals in the real, the tangible, the directly imaginable Speaks the language of collective action, in contrast to the disempowered individualism of ‘small actions’ at the...
Congratulations
A quick post to say congratulations to the students who did well at the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards. Students won in the radio journalist of the year and student team of the year categorie...
links for 2008-06-24
The Big Picture - Boston.com Loving this site. (tags: photography news blog journalism daily)...
Newspaper video: Playtime = happy journos
Picture from Flickr user Huladancer This has been sitting in my list of things to blog on, so with a bit of delay, here is an interesting bit of data from a recent report on digital journalism from a ...
June Carnival of Journalism
I have the pleasure of hosting this months Carnival of journalism, a monthly extravaganza of posts from the journalism blogasphere. (You can find out more here). Last month Ryan Sholin suggested a t...
links for 2008-06-18
The guardian invented liveblogging Neil McIntosh makes the claim in a mea culpa about twitter. And the link would seem to back it up. (tags: liveblogging journalism) How we read online. - By Michael...
Local newspapers and social futures
Two interesting Slideshare slideshows to share. First, the MEN’s Sarah Hartley has shared her round up of what the UK regional press is doing on the web | View | Upload your own And...
Photojournalism Ethics is an ivory tower.
I’m often reminded as my status as a lecturer. It’s usually in that ‘it may work for you in your ivory tower, but this is the real world sonny’ way, but I don’t mind. One...
Release your API
Picture by ~Jetta Girl~ (camera off to Nikon ER) at Flickr According to the Webopedia an API is Abbreviation of application program interface, a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building sof...
Braindump -owning up to ownership
Marking has done a good job of getting in the way of things - shows up my inability to multi task doesn’t it - but i’ve been storing up one or two bits to go at thanks to Taboo. So here go...
links for 2008-06-08
Two News”paper” Site Re-do’s: Washington Times, SFGate « Web 2.Oh. . .really? Love the dig deeper thing (tags: web2.0 news webdesign journalism) Taboo :: Firefox Add-ons For those of us with ...
links for 2008-05-27
Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues Old media knows the relationship with its audience has changed, but it is still not quite sure how to deal with it. (tags: communication community ...
It’s mine ya’hear. Mine. All mine: Ownership and innovation
From Flickr user Andyi It’s Carnival of Journalism time and Ryan Sholin steps up to the plate to host. He helpfully suggests a question to chew over for this months meeting of j-minds What shoul...