#FollowJourn: @matthewwells/head of audio

#FollowJourn: Matt Wells

Who? Head of audio for the Guardian.

What? Former MediaGuardian editor, still presents its media podcast.

Where? On the Mediatalk podcast and contributions to Guardian.co.uk.

Contact? @matthewwells.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – the latest trends in online journalism

Online journalism: Discover what’s ‘hot’ in online journalism by reading Jacqui Banaszynski’s report on the Online News Association’s (ONA) conference on the News Leadership 3.0 blog. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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TechCrunch: New site for Hearst to semi-automate content

Following on from Peter Kirwan’s Wired.co.uk article on the move away from journalism and journalists in business magazine publishing, TechCrunch reports on consumer mag publisher Hearst’s new site, LMK (or ‘Let Me Know’).

Using semantic filtering technology the site will aggregate and filter content to create curated topic pages – each with its own freelance editor and designers. The best sources for each topic, e.g. college football, are selected by the editing team and then the technology takes over.

So far, sports topics seem to be dominating the launch – can such semi-automated pages work for breaking news and other news areas?

Full post at this link…

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Mashable: A complete guide to videoblogging

From the rise of videoblogging and what it can bring to your website to making a video and distributing it online, Leah Betancourt, digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, US, provides a fantastically thorough guide.

Full guide at this link…

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Econsultancy: Could Facebook be the next big news publisher?

It has the finances, audience figures and tools to do so, but would the social networking site want to get into the news space?

Arguably it’s already there as a ‘niche news aggregator’ within networks of friends, writes Econsultancy’s Ben LaMothe.

But are there further opportunities for Facebook in local news reporting from journalism students and editing/curating vacancies for redundant journalists?

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Wired.co.uk: A future without journalists?

Reflecting on last week’s UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) conference, Peter Kirwan discusses the growing trend away from journalism in business magazine publishing.

Citing examples of United Business Media and Reed Elsevier, Kirwan points out that many trade magazine publishers no longer generate the majority of their revenue from print-based titles. Selling events, online data and other offerings, such as Reed’s ‘workflow solutions’, has taken over.

“Measured against models like these, business journalism starts to resemble a dying craft,” writes Kirwan.

“It’s obvious why. At its most basic, business journalism involves interpreting the dynamics of an industry. Yet if these shifting dynamics can be reduced to data points, and if those data points can be sold in digital format to subscribers, the value of external interpretation – and journalism – inevitably declines.”

Imagining a future without journalists.

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Jo Wadsworth: Where is advertising moving online?

(One of Jon Bernstein’s 15 news men and women to follow on Twitter) Jo Wadsworth rounds up a busy week in advertising, starting with last week’s news that online advertising has become the biggest advertising medium, according to an Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) report.

But rising forms of advertising (paid search and social media for example) aren’t what news sites might currently benefit from, she adds.

“Of course advertisers have always found ways to avoid shelling out for adverts (…) But the difference here is that social media allows brands to bypass mass media entirely. And it’s not just commercial brands – it’s also local authorities, celebrities, politicians, lots of the people who previously relied on the papers to get their message out there,” she writes.

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Aggregators, plagiarists and kleptomaniacs: Rupert Murdoch’s Beijing speech in full

In a speech to the Beijing World Media Summit last Friday, News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch attacked news aggregators and search engines. The ‘aggregators and plagiarists’ will soon have to pay the price for using publishers’ content for free, he said.

If publishers and news organisations don’t regain control they will pay ‘the ultimate price’ and it will be ‘the kleptomaniacs who triumph’, he told the industry event.

A Wordle of his keynote is understandably dominated by ‘China’, given the event’s location, with ‘digital’ overshadowing ‘newspapers’ in this instance:

Below you can read the speech in full:

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#FollowJourn: @jonswaine/reporter

#FollowJourn: Jon Swaine

Who? Reporter for Daily Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk.

What? News reporter also part of Telegraph’s team covering the MPs expenses scandal. Regular contributor to the site’s political blogs.

Where? Articles on Journalisted and previous Telegraph blog posts.

Contact? @jonswaine.

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Guardian recruiting ‘beatbloggers’ for new local project

For its new Guardian Local online news project set to launch in 2010, the company is advertising for bloggers in each of Leeds, Cardiff and Edinburgh ‘to create and curate local text and multimedia content’. The job advert states:

“You will lead the Guardian’s innovative approach to community news coverage by reporting on local meetings and events with an emphasis on political decision making, identifying grassroots issues of importance to residents and signposting information and news provided via other sources.”

“Guardian Local is a small-scale experimental approach to local newsgathering. We are focusing on three politically engaged cities and we expect to launch in early 2010,” said Emily Bell, the director of digital development at Guardian News & Media, the Guardian’s PDA blog reported.

Sarah Hartley, previously head of online editorial at the Manchester Evening News, will lead the project as the Guardian Local launch editor.

PDA: ‘Guardian Local planned to launch next year’

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