Innovations in Journalism - tracking conversations and researching stories with YackTrack
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under comments, Innovations in Journalism, blogs, Journalism | 1 Comment
We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. This week’s starter for ten is the aptly named YackTrack, designed to find info related to a single issue across various sites.
1) who are you and what’s it all […]
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 […]
Media Guardian: 15m UK users visted newspaper, claims ComScore
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nearly 15 million people - 44 per cent of UK internet users - visited newspaper sites during March, according to ComScore web metrics.
The Guardian says that ComScore figures suggest that Sun Online was the most visited UK newspaper site by residents of this country, recording 4.3 million unique users, with Guardian.co.uk second with at 3.6 million.
Telegraph.co.uk had 2.8 million users and Times Online 2.6 million.
Read More..>> Full story...Inflection Point: Pay per performance for online journos
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk wrote a story last week about comments RBI managing director Jim Muttram made to the PPA conference about performance related pay for journalists.
Back on his own blog Jim has posted about the hubbub surrounding the issue.
“If any pay for performance scheme were ever to be implemented in a blanket fashion that very well might be the result - which, for the record, would be a bad thing!
“However, in an online world where attention is firstly more valued and more difficult to get, and secondly increasingly measurable it surely comes as no surprise that questions about how to maximise it arise from time to time.”
I recommend a click through to read the whole post.
Read More..>> Full story...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.
Washingtonpost.com: WaPo signs up TechCrunch for online syndication deal
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, business, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
TechCrunch stories will now appear in the Washington Post website’s technology section as part of a syndication deal between the publishers.
“I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post - adding new types of content to the site to retain reader interest, over and above their existing stories,” said TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.
Currently no comments will be allowed on TechCrunch content on the WaPo site - something Arrington hopes will change in the future.
Read More..>> Full story...Online Journalism China: The voices in-between the official press and the western media
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under CNN, Online Journalism China, Olympics, USA, Online Journalism, China, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Adding to the burgeoning hoard of international bloggers on Journalism.co.uk, China Daily’s Dave Green offers an insight into the world of online journalism in China.
Domestic furore over the Western media’s reporting of the Tibet risings and the Olympic Torch relay was as inevitable as night following day, but the nature of the backlash wasn’t as […]
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 […]
FollowTheMedia site faces closure
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under Europe, USA, Journalism | 1 Comment
News and commentary website FollowTheMedia could be shut down unless €35,000 (£27,444) is raised by May 16.
FTM, which focuses primarily on US and European media news and analysis, did not give any reasons for the potential closure in an announcement on its site.
The site is urging readers to make donations or register for membership - […]
PPA Magazines 2008: Grazia scoops PPA magazine of the year award
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under Journalism | Leave a Comment
Grazia was crowned consumer magazine of the year at last night’s PPA awards, with Incisive Media’s Legal Week named weekly business magazine of the year.
Brand Republic was chosen as the best non-subscription business website and Workplace Law Magazine’s site the best paid for.
Elsewhere Reed Business Information (RBI) title New Scientist picked up the interactive consumer […]
