Decision08, a competition organised by MySpace, NBC News and msnbc.com, has selected two citizen journalists to cover the 2008 US Democratic and Republican conventions.
Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley were chosen by more than 50,000 users who voted in the Decision08 convention contest, a press release said.
Entrants were asked to post a video to the Decision08 MySpace site answering the question ‘How will you stand out in the crowd and get the scoop no one else can?’
Below are the winning vids:
Tags: Matt Britten, Myspace, NBC, Sara Pat Badgley, United StatesWikipedia updated its pages to account for the death of NBC News’ Washington bureau chief Tim Russert half an hour before a news alert was release by the Associated Press (AP), Brian Cubbison from the Syracuse Post-Standard blogs.
The first update to the online encyclopedia entry for Russert was made at 7:01pm (GMT) on June 13 to add the date of his death to the page - 35 minutes before AP’s alert.
Cubbison’s post interestingly links to a Businessweek article on the same phenomenon - a commenter on which points out that the IP address of the user who made the first amendment to Russert’s Wikipedia entry belongs to Internet Broadcasting Systems, the same company behind NBC’s website.
Tags: Associated Press, Brian Cubbison, Internet Broadcasting Systems, NBC, News' Washington bureau, online encyclopedia entry, Tim Russert, Washington
The New York Film Academy has teamed up with NBC News to offer a year-long training course in ’21st Century broadcast journalism’.
The course aims to train the next generation of journalists to ‘be prepared to navigate the evolving landscape of digital journalism.’
Students will have the chance to attend ‘master classes’ conducted by NBC news staff and can go backstage on NBC news programmes to learn about production.
Each student produces pre-recorded news projects, using both single and multicamera, which they edit using Final-Cut Pro.
Comprehensive coverage doesn’t come cheap, though. At around £8,500 per semester, there may still be something to be said for learning on the job.
Tags: GBP, NBC, New York Film AcademyThose guys at Tribune know how to have a laugh don’t they? Take this ‘hilarious’ press release I received today about the US media group’s latest appointment:
Surely You Can’t Be Serious? Marc Chase - President Of Tribune Interactive!
Randy Michaels’ run of acquiring radio-management stars
came to a screeching halt today with Chase’s appointmentCHICAGO, April 7, 2008 — Another freaking Clear Channel
Communications executive on the payroll and this one’s been
named President of Tribune Interactive.Tribune Broadcasting’s Randy Michaels’ past finally caught
up with him when Marc Chase obviously blackmailed his way
into a position he is not remotely qualified to hold.
Insiders are irate. Chase is a fraud. A source inside
Tribune HR, who wished to remain anonymous, pointed out that
Marc Chase’s resume (below) was obviously fabricated. First
of all, his name isn’t even Marc Chase–it’s Mark Thompson.
The whole thing is a sham.MARC CHASE
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 202-456-1111PROFESSINAL EXPERIENCE
Vocabulary Advisorist for George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
Washington DC, 2004-presenteBay
President of Buying Crap
San Jose, California 2003-2004
Executive Vice President of Finding Crap Anywhere
Mountain View, California 2001-2002Microsoft
Senior Executive Vice President of Technology and Stuff
Seattle, Washington, 2000-2001CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX Television
Vice President of Watching TV A Lot
Los Angeles, California 1999-2000Harvard University
Dean of School of Internetology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998EDUCASHION
Nearly Graduated with Honers
School of Alabama in Atlanta Georgia 1985COMMUNITY SERVICE
400 Hours (reduced from 600)
Judge gave time off for good behaviorChase was quoted as saying, “Timing and infrared photography
are everything. I couldn’t be happier! I know Randy is
relieved to finally have me on Sam’s payroll.”Tribune has undergone major changes in the past year, with
billionaire Sam Zell acquiring the company last April in a
complex deal that left it with $13 billion in debt. Since
then, Zell has brought in new executives to fill key roles.
This one takes the cake.Last December, Zell hired Michaels — who helped Zell to
build Clear Channel into a radio behemoth that he could then
sell — to oversee Tribune’s broadcast and Internet
divisions. It is obvious Michaels has lost his mind with
this hire.–By Hugh Jass – A Reputable Media Source
© 2008, Bogus Information, a division of Dewey, Cheatum, and
Howe. All Rights Reserved.
While you’re sewing you sides back together (and trying to make sense of the whole thing), you have to ask why? As Gawker points out Marc Chase has been hired - that’s about all you can determine from the message - but is it appropriate to send out a spoof release as the Tribune company faces mass redundancies?
Tags: 202-456-1111, abc, Alabama, Atlanta, California, Cambridge, CBS, Chicago, Clear Channel, Clear Channel Communications, eBay, Finding Crap Anywhere Mountain View, google, Harvard University, Honers School of Alabama, Hugh Jass, Internet divisions, Los Angeles, Marc Chase, Mark Thompson, Massachusetts, media group, microsoft, NBC, Sam Zell, San Jose, School of Internetology Cambridge, Seattle, the Tribune, Tribune company, Tribune Interactive!, United States, United States of America, USD, Washington, Washington DCFrom Wednesday news show clips from US broadcaster NBC will be offered as embeddable codes, according to a report from beet.tv.
As the beet.tv article points out, while such codes are offered for Reuters videos and videos on the Wall Street Journal website, this is the first time a major US network news operation has opted for this method of sharing content.
Tags: NBC, reuters, United States, Wall Street Journal
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