BBC Internet Blog launches podcast
Posted on December 21, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Today sees the first outing of a podcast from the BBC’s Internet Blog.
As announced by BBC blogs editor Nick Reynolds, the 30-minute download on ‘BBC Blogs as accountability’ features reactions to reader’s comments and a report of the workings of BBC Backstage - the BBC’s developers network.
God, no? Is it list and predictions time already?
Posted on December 21, 2007 - Filed Under multimedia experiments, training, Publishing, Citizen journalism, Handy Technology, Online Journalism | 2 Comments
Yes, it’s that time again, the season of favourites lists, bests of, highlights of 2007, and rough guesses of what may happen in the coming 12 months.
I’ve brought together the few lists I have managed to find in between crazed bouts of gorging my way through East Sussex’s entire supply of mince pies and crapulent […]
Citizen journalist videos through op-ed pages of NYTimes.com
Posted on December 19, 2007 - Filed Under multimedia experiments, Citizen journalism, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Later this week videos created by citizen journalists that look at issues surrounding the upcoming presidential primaries, in the US, will be available alongside professional work through the op-ed pages of NYTimes.com, according to Beet.tv.
Talking to Beet, Cynthina Farrar, producer with Purplestates.tv (and Yale researcher scholar), explained how non-professional reporters working with her new company […]
News as niche: video traffic updates for mobiles
Posted on December 19, 2007 - Filed Under Handy Technology | 1 Comment
Local television broadcaster KHCW-TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas, has come up with an innovative idea for delivering traffic reports. The free service for mobile phones allows users to view images and video of traffic hotspots supplied by live traffic cameras along their route. The images provided by the KHCW Traffic Jam Cell Cams are […]
Read More..>>General secretary calls on bloggers to join NUJ
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | 2 Comments
Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, has posted a welcome to bloggers to join the union on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site.
Last month the union admitted it’s first full-time blogger, freelance Engadget writer Conrad Quilty-Harper.
In the post, Dear said the change to the union’s membership would better reflect the shape of the industry […]
BBC News website most popular for online news
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
According to a press release from the corporation, the BBC News website is the UK’s most popular online news site, attracting an average weekly audience of 13.8 million (calculated over the period from January - September 2007) - a 20 per cent increase on weekly users since last year’s figures.
The site, says the same release, […]
Christmas multimedia competition
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under multimedia experiments, training, Publishing, Citizen journalism, Handy Technology, Politics, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk is running a multimedia reporting contest with fabulous prizes, have a look over on the news pages for details:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530865.php
What’s the Drudge Report worth?
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Publishing, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
How do you put a value on something so closely aligned with an individual, which really has very little to it?
The Drudge Report would be worth next to nothing without Matt Drudge. If you wanted to buy the site you’d pretty much have to by him too.
Once you’ve got over that little hump, how would […]
The news as niche
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
In an interview with Damon Kiesow, online editor of US local the Nashua Telegraph, about the Telegraph’s use of Twitter to deliver breaking news, Kiesow explained the paper’s strategy for targetting a wider audience as niche content for niche interest groups.
While he admitted that any audience gain from one Twitter feed might be incremental, targetting […]
NYTimes.com taps into ‘outsider’ blog posts
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Handy Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The video below from beet.tv explains how the New York Times can use its Blogrunner service to monitor discussion in the blogosphere about its articles, including those posts that do not link directly to the original article - so-called ‘outsider’ blog posts.
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According to beet.tv, […]
