NewsInnovation.com: Jarvis on entrepreneurial journalism

Here’s CUNY journalism professor Jeff Jarvis talking about journalism and entrepreneurship in an ‘On the Media’ podcast. Journalism of the future will be more efficient he says:

• Entrepreneurial journalism on the air

The theme is also being discussed in the UK. Last week journalism educators gathered in London to discuss journalistic enterprise, as noted by investigative journalist and lecturer Paul Lashmar.

• Pre-event background here

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#FollowJourn: @kjmarsh/BBC CoJo editor

Who? Editor of BBC College of Journalism; former Radio 4 Today programme editor.

What? Joined the BBC as a trainee in 1978; has edited PM, The World at One and BBC Radio 4 Today.

Where? Marsh blogs at Storycurve and the BBC College of Journalism.

Contact? Follow him on @kjmarsh.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – think about the medium

Think about your followers and the medium of your message. A recommendation from @soofuk: Although it’s easy to link a Twitter feed to Facebook, people can get annoyed if you tweet a lot. Also, a Twitter shortcode can confuse non-tweeter Facebook users. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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freemedia.at: Abducted journalist found dead in Mexico

More tragic news from Mexico: “Police found the remains of Radio Linea Directa crime reporter Jose Luis Romero wrapped in a black bag near Los Mochis city, in Sinaloa province, on Saturday,” reports the International Press Institute (IPI).

Bullet wounds were found in his head and shoulder, and his hands and leg were broken, news reports said. On 30 December, Romero was abducted at gunpoint from a restaurant in Los Mochis, according to the Associated Press (AP). The chief investigator into the kidnapping was murdered a few hours later. Romero’s body was found by a highway near Los Mochis.

Full story at this link…

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Who are you calling Twitters?

It looks like an Express.co.uk story about the BBC and Twitter has been removed. Originally available at this link http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/152233/Is-the-BBC-run-by-a-bunch-of-Twitters-, it now shows as a missing story.

The story, ‘Is the BBC run by a bunch of Twitters?’ can, however, still be found via the cache. As Malcolm Coles noted on his blog yesterday, the Sunday Express claimed that some BBC Twitter accounts, such as Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire, were being followed by only one or two people.

But does the Express understand how Twitter works? Coles first suspected that the journalists muddled the account names, and now claims they’ve mixed up ‘follower’ and ‘following’ numbers.

So Radio 5 Live’s @vicderbyshire actually has 3,692 followers but only follows 2 people (in fact, perhaps thanks to the story, her number of followers seems to be on the rise).

Oops. Journalism.co.uk tried to clarify the situation with Express.co.uk. But it’s no comment for now,  and we’re waiting a response from the legal department who deal with all enquiries about missing stories.

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Deutsche Welle: German news publishers file Google complaint

Germany’s newspaper and magazine publisher associations, the VDZ and BDZV, have filed a complaint with the country’s Federal Cartel Office against Google, Deutsche Welle reports.

Although details as to the exact nature of the complaint have not yet been released, the main concern is believed to revolve around “snippets” from media websites and news articles which show up in  search results on Google News. Publishers say Google has not paid for the use of these articles, and that regulations must be tightened to protect the authors from plagiarism.

The associations also say the way search results are currently listed is unfair. In November, a BDZV official said his group wanted to know why some Google News results were ranked higher than others.

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BJP: The Independent apologises for Flickr ‘errors’

The Independent newspaper has apologised, “after it was accused of breach of copyright for publishing a Flickr stream of images which included at least one ‘All Rights Reserved’ photo of the snow,” reports the British Journal of Photography.

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(The photographer, Peter Zabulis, who challenged the Independent has more detail at this link)

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Online Journalism Blog: NUJ ‘New Ways to Make Journalism Pay’ conference round-up

Journalism.co.uk was still recovering from last week’s news:rewired and didn’t make it to the NUJ conference on Saturday, but we’re enjoying the round-ups elsewhere. Conrad Quilty-Harper rounds up links and comments for the Online Journalism Blog:

The NUJ’s New Ways to Make Journalism Pay conference on Saturday brought together a group of journalists and entrepreneurs who are making money through online journalism in the UK. Many of the speakers had toiled to build brands online, and those that had were now running sustainable businesses. If the future of journalism is entrepreneurial, then these speakers are evidence of it.

…and freelance journalist Ian Wylie provides a thorough report at this link…

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RSF creates centre of operations for Haitian journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is to set up a centre of operations for Haitian journalists in Port-au-Prince with the aim of enabling them “to cover the situation and thereby assist the process of providing assistance to the population”.

[T]he centre will be equipped with laptops, mobile phones and generators provided by the leading Canadian media group Quebecor, Reporters Without Borders’ partner in this initiative.

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The creation of this centre of operations will be followed by reconstruction assistance – again in partnership with Quebecor – for Haiti’s media, which are virtually all currently unable to function. This will be one of the targets of the donations raised by the appeal already issued by Reporters Without Borders.

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#FollowJourn: @10000words / multimedia reporter

Who? Multimedia producer for California Watch, part of the Center for Investigative Reporting.

What? Developed the 10,000 Words blog while unemployed, describing and detailing multimedia journalism techniques.

Where? You can read more on his blog, his website and follow his work on California Watch.

Contact? Follow him on @10000words or via info [at] 10000words.net.

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