OPA 08: 47% of weekly unique users to BBC News site are non-UK
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Traffic, BBC, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Pete Clifton, head of editorial development for multimedia journalism at the BBC, has said 47 per cent of the 17 million weekly unique users to the BBC News website come from outside of the UK.
Around half of these users, he told the Online Publishers Association conference, are from the US with a strong ex-pat […]
Webby success for FT.com and BBC News
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Awards, NYTimes, ft, radio, Newspapers, Online Journalism, BBC, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
The Financial Times and the BBC have reason to celebrate after they both won Webby Awards - considered by many as the Oscars of online publishing.
With nominations in over 70 categories FT.com’s Alphaville blog and the BBC News site were amongst a crowded field of winners as they picked up gongs earlier this week.
The Webbys […]
Indiainfo: BBC World seals deal with six mobile service providers in India
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under India, Editors' pick, Mobile, BBC | Leave a Comment
BBC World has tied up a deal with six mobile service providers in India to provide video clips to phones.
BBC also plans to increase it news programming on its television channel BBC World News and generate content for video on demand and podcasts as well, reports Indiainfo.
Read More..>> Full story...Election 2.0: blogs, video and mobile streaming out in force for local election coverage
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under blogs, BBC, Politics, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The BBC’s coverage of today’s local elections will feature live blogging, with comments being expertly sifted by Newsnight and BBC News 24 presenter Emily Maitlis, assisted by leading political bloggers Iain Dale, Luke Akenhurst and Alix Mortimer.
The elections see 4000 seats up for grabs at 159 councils nationally, along with the London Mayoralty and the […]
Happy birthday WWW!
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Technology, BBC, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Today is the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, marked by the CERN announcement on April 30 1993 that the web would be free to all.
It’s a cue to sit back and marvel at how much has changed in a relatively small amount of time and post screen shots that may induce the […]
BBC uses Ordinance Survey maps for traffic jam mashup
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Mapping, BBC | Leave a Comment
The BBC is using Ordinance Survey maps to display traffic hotspots based on info from its Jam Cams.
Clicking through the flash-generated map takes you through to a live Jam Cam video feed which is updated every 10 minutes. The bigger the circles on the map, the more cameras are available in that area.
The BBC formerly […]
iPM: mapping the credit crunch
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Mapping, Geotagging, Editors' pick, BBC | Leave a Comment
iPM is working with the CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) - developer of a website for sharing maps - to use the technology more closely for journalistic ends.
Aside from this (and in a totally non-scientific way, they say) iPM wants to create a mood map of the credit crunch, assessing how people the length of the country feel about possible financial choppy waters ahead that it can use it to inform journalism.
Read More..>> Full story...BBC joins OpenID Foundation
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under OpenID, comments, blogs, BBC | Leave a Comment
The BBC is to join the OpenID foundation - the body behind the system where website users can have one username across different participating sites.
The decision, announced by Jem Stone, portfolio executive for the BBC Future Media and Technology (FM&T) department’s social media group, on the BBC Internet blog, puts the corporation alongside Google and […]
BBC Trust says news website must review fact checking procedure
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under Standards, BBC | Leave a Comment
The sourcing and fact checking process for stories on the BBC News website must be addressed by management, the BBC trust Editorial Standards Committee has recommended.
The committee made the suggestions as part of its response to a complaint about an article on the site, which pointed to inaccuracies in the report on Congressman Joseph P […]
Press Gazette: BBC News opens multi-platform newsroom
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under television, integration, radio, Editors' pick, Online Journalism, BBC, Journalism | Leave a Comment
News 24 Journalists and colleagues from radio and the TV news bulletins have become the first to move into the BBCâ
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