Live: first ever online broadcast of a UK newspaper’s editorial conference
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Video, regional, Digital video, blogs, Online Journalism, online communities, Journalism | Leave a Comment
The Liverpool Daily Post will later on today become the first newspaper in the UK to broadcast its afternoon editorial conference live on the web.
Journalism.co.uk will be carrying the stream. Watch it here.
Aftonbladet rolls out social network for readers
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Europe, Newspapers, social networks, online communities | Leave a Comment
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has soft launched a new community for users called Snack, Media Culpa reports.
It is hoped the site, which lets users share comments, images and videos, will be populated by readers acting under their own names rather than anonymous pseudonyms.
According to Media Culpa, the newspaper will soon open up commenting facilities across its […]
Social Media Journalist: “The problem with most news organisations is a lack of editorial understanding of social media” Kevin Anderson, Guardian blogs editor
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, RSS, guardian, Social Media Journalist, Bookmarking, social networks, Facebook, multimedia experiments, Online Journalism, online communities, blogs, Twitter, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk talks to reporters across the globe working at the collision of journalism and social media about how they see it changing their industry. This week, Kevin Anderson, Guardian.co.uk.
1) Who are you and what do you do?
Kevin Anderson, blogs editor at Guardian.co.uk.
My title is misnomer seeing as desk editors handle most of the commissioning.
My role […]
CNET: Washingtonpost.com wants identities of readers who post comments
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under comments, Editors' pick, Newspapers, online communities, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Speaking on a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference, Jim Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s online division, said he would like to see a technology that could identify people who violate site standards, and if need be, automatically kick them off for good.
He added that there was no guaranteed anonymity for those who post comments to Washingtonpost.com.
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Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under Standards, Newspapers, blogs, online communities | Leave a Comment
Roshan Doug’s blog post ‘Check-out desk woman and Saddam Hussein’ for the Birmingham Post has been causing a stir on the site. Whether you agree or sympathise with Doug’s post, the readers’ reaction raises questions over what guidelines or control the title should exercise over the topics their bloggers write about.
Reporter and overseer of the […]
The European News Interactivity Index
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under social networks, Twitter, online communities, Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nicolas Kayser-Bril, contributor to the Online Journalism Blog and Observatoire des Media, has created an index of the interactive tools used by European news websites.
The index compares and contrasts which media organisations make use of tools such as Twitter, mobile alerts and social networks, as well as noting their policy on user registration for interactive […]
Readwriteweb: How we use Twitter for journalism
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Twitter, online communities, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
The good people at Readwriteweb explain how they use Twitter for journalism.
Pretty much the same as us at Journalism.co.uk - they say it falls into four distinct categories:
The discovery of breaking stories
People they follow tipping them off
Interviews
“When we got to interview Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW this year, we solicited interview questions via Twitter.”
Quality assurance
Readers picking up on their factual errors.
Promotion
Tipping off the people that follow them
IPC takes its Wedding magazine online
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under magazines, launch, online communities | Leave a Comment
IPC Southbank is launching a website for bridal magazine Wedding.
Weddingmagazine.co.uk will feature a directory of wedding businesses, which visitors can search by region and type.
In addition the new site will feature picture galleries, information and polls on wedding accessories, venues and honeymoon destinations.
The site also plans to launch a forum area once established.
The launch is […]
Online Journalism China: There’s an expanding array of tools to supply uncensored news - but how many are prepared to listen?
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, Online Journalism China, Skype, China, blogs, Politics, Citizen journalism, online communities, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
To add to our burgeoning hoard of international bloggers, Journalism.co.uk has recruited China Daily’s Dave Green to write about online journalism in China.
I recently fell into conversation with a Beijing taxi driver regarding his opinion on the situation in Tibet. His view was that he really had no idea who to believe, as he felt […]
News.com: Citizen news site Helium draws heat from community over planned changes to payment
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under online communities, Editors' pick, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Citizen journalism site Helium.com has drawn criticism from members of its own community by suggesting changes to the way they attribute payments to their users.
Site developers want to change the payment system to reward the most active participants.
‘Helium pays a portion of its advertising revenue to people who write the most widely read stories on the site-popularity that is based on user reviews from members,’ wrote News.com:
‘But the company suggested that its new system would pay only those people who maintain a “single-star” rating on the site, which means that they wouldn’t just write, but they also would need to review as many as 40 stories within 90 days, according to the company’s original post. Anyone who fell below a single-star rating would not be paid for their stories.’
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