Reflections on the accessibility of news websites
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Accessibility | Leave a Comment
From the outset of last week’s series on how accessible the UK’s major newspaper websites are to blind and visually impaired users, we tried to emphasize that this was a subjective study based on the findings of a group of individuals with differing accessibility needs and internet skills.
Some responses to our findings, including that from […]
Citizen experts not citizen journalists?
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Citizen journalism | 1 Comment
Yesterday’s news that Topix will now handle the forums and article commenting system for MediaNews Group raises some questions for the future of user-generated content on news sites.
Does the future of so-called citizen journalism and user-generated content on news sites lie in opinion/comment rather than reporting?
MediaNews’ decision seems to suggest so, investing in areas of […]
New political blog for Telegraph
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Today sees the launch of new Telegraph.co.uk political blog - Three Line Whip.
As promised in my round-up of the Telegraph open house blogging event earlier this month, the blog will feature posts from writers from across the paper and joins the Brassneck blog.
Trying to confirm whether the launch date was brought forward ever so slightly […]
Brightcove pulls plug on user-generated content
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
User-generated content (that is non-professionally produced videos) will no longer be a feature on internet TV service Brightcove after December 18.
Writing in a blog post, Brightcove CEO Jeremy Alliare said the aspect of the site that allows users to upload and share personal videos will cease to exist from this date.
“While the consumer-facing Brightcove.TV website […]
Video: side-achingly ‘funny’ look at life at Bloomberg
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Proof, if ever you needed it, that the financial journos at Bloomberg (thanks to Gawker for the point) just can’t do funny… but why would you ever want them to? Back to work boys and girls.
At least it isn’t the Comic Relief or Children in Need dance-and-sing nightmare that the Beeb puts us through every […]
Outsourcing newspaper interaction – on Topix
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Citizen journalism, Online Journalism | 9 Comments
Topix has just struck a deal to run the forums of MediaNews Group in the US, which owns 61 newspapers including the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News.
If Topix’s claim is genuine (and I have no reason to doubt it) that it gets over 80,000 comments a day - three million people posting more […]
Sky News development competition and its royalty free use ‘in perpetuity’ of finalist’s work
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Earlier this month Sky News launched a competition offering £10,000 in prize money for developers to come up with new and novel uses of its RSS feeds.
Text, images and video are all covered in RSS and hoping for a innovative use of its feeds the news provider has put no limit on what developers can […]
New look for Birmingham Post website
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Trinity Mirror are to revamp the Birmingham Post’s website, according to reporter on the paper Joanna Geary - who is part of the development team for the new site.
Geary opened up the floor to readers of her blog to suggest features for the redeveloped website, taking their ideas to a meeting yesterday with management staff […]
Video: So you want to be a video journalist?
Posted on November 26, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Video supremo David Dunkley Gyima has put together a ‘Mi6 Videojournalist Manifesto’ from an project he worked on with Visual Editor’s CEO Robb Montgomery. Wonderful visuals, but I have to admit to being a bit baffled by it…
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Read More..>>No integration for the Sun and the News Of The World
Posted on November 26, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Integration - the great buzzword of the newspaper industry in recent times - is seen by many (the Telegraph, the Guardian, Johnston Press, even the BBC) as the future of news delivery.
But not at the Sun. Managing editor Graham Dudman told the Press Gazette that despite integrating all the paper’s digital elements a further integration […]
