Online Journalism Scandinavia: “Computer programming is journalism”
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Mapping, Online Journalism Scandinavia, Data journalism, Geotagging, Europe, Online Journalism, Citizen journalism, multimedia experiments, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Online Journalism Scandinavia this week looks at innovate use of Google mash-ups and online databases by the Norwegian press.
“Computer programming is also journalism,” Espen Andersen, the man charged with bringing the current affairs flagship of Norway’s public broadcaster (NRK) kicking and screaming into the internet age, told Journalism.co.uk.
He should know. Andersen is one of Scandinavia […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: Personality pays in the pay-per-click economy of blogging
Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under magazines, Online Journalism Scandinavia, Europe, blogs, Advertising, Journalism | 1 Comment
Kristine Lowe’s (left) Online Journalism Scandinavia this week looks at the demand for celebrity bloggers in Sweden.
Swedish lifestyle sites are using celebrity bloggers to drive traffic and to help lure attractive advertisers to their sites.
Swedish blogger Katrin Schulman (below) recently made it known she was keen to move her delicately named blog, Fuck you right […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: VG online awarded investigative prize for biggest ever multimedia project
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Online Journalism Scandinavia, investigative, Awards, Newspapers, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe’s (left) Online Journalism Scandinavia this week looks at a groundbreaking multimedia project run by VG newspaper that led to awards recognition.
Journalists from Norway’s VG online were last week awarded an investigative prize for developing the newspaper’s biggest ever multimedia project.
VG journalists Anne Stine Saether and Anders Sooth Knutsen were presented with […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: lessons in UGC, follow the crowd
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Photography, Online Journalism Scandinavia, Newspapers, Citizen journalism, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe’s (left) Online Journalism Scandinavia this week looks at the (weird and wonderful) challenges of soliciting readers’ contributions.
Local newspaper readers more keen to submit photos of their own kids than of world champions, that’s what one online newspaper in Norway found out last month.
Mecom-owned Drammens Tidende (DT) invited its readers to help them cover […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: Print and online integration ‘not the key to success’
Posted on March 26, 2008 - Filed Under Online Journalism Scandinavia, integration, Newspapers, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe is a freelance journalist who writes on the media industry for number of US, UK and Norwegian publications. Today Online Journalism Scandinavia asks why not integrating print and online may be the way forward.
Integration is not the recipe to become a nation’s newspaper of choice, says the editor-in-chief of Norway’s leading news […]
Reuters: Slate to launch business site ‘The Big Money’
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Online Journalism Scandinavia, Editors' pick, business | Leave a Comment
The Washington Post owned online news magazine Slate is to join the rapidly expanding business news market by launching The Big Money, this summer.
The site is expected to focus on analysis and commentary and not be a million miles away from what Portfolio is offering online.
“We’re reaching a different audience, a general interest site for people who have an interest in money and financial affairs and economics … but not specifically or necessarily who work in the finance industry,” Slate editor James Ledbetter told Reuters.
Read More..>> Full story...Online Journalism Scandinavia: Should public broadcaster seek competitive advantage online by offering users content for free?
Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Europe, Broadcasting, file sharing, Online Journalism Scandinavia, Video, Newspapers, Technology, multimedia experiments, Facebook, social networks, BBC | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe is a freelance journalist who writes on the media industry for number of US, UK and Norwegian publications. Today Online Journalism Scandinavia asks if public broadcasters should be more restrained in the content they offer for free online.
The head of the online division of Norway’s public broadcaster (NRK) has admitted that it […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: More news sites using Twingly to link to blog reactions
Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Readership, Online Journalism Scandinavia, Linking, Newspapers, blogs, Online Journalism, multimedia experiments, online communities, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe is a freelance journalist who writes on the media industry for number of US, UK and Norwegian publications. Today Online Journalism Scandinavia looks again at news sites linking to blogs.
Dagbladet.no, the online operation of Norway’s second biggest tabloid, has become the latest Scandinavian news site to use Twingly to show blog links to […]
Online Journalism Scandinavia: Norway’s leading news sites strategies for attracting online audience
Posted on March 10, 2008 - Filed Under Traffic, Design, Europe, Online Journalism Scandinavia, social networks, Digital video, Online Journalism, online communities, Facebook, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe is a freelance journalist who writes on the media industry for number of US, UK and Norwegian publications. This week Online Journalism Scandinavia looks at how Norway’s leading news sites attract their audiences.
Read More..>>Online Journalism Scandinavia: Danish news sites benefit from doing things ‘The Drupal Way’
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Online Journalism Scandinavia, Drupal, blogs, online communities, Online Journalism, Technology, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Kristine Lowe is a freelance journalist who writes on the media industry for number of US, UK and Norwegian publications. Here she looks at use of open-source software, Drupal, on Danish news sites.
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