Sky News’ breaking news Twitter account integrated with news site

A quick update on developments with Sky News’ breaking news Twitter account, launched by the broadcaster in December – the @skynewsbreak account is now incorporated in the news ticker running across the top of the SkyNews.com website.

Sky News Online executive producer Julian March first mentioned plans for this when speaking to Journalism.co.uk in January about increased use of social media for newsgathering amongst Sky News staff.

Similar posts:

• Poynter Online: Social media literacy is goal for Sky News’ digital staff
• CNN to broadcast first live news show from Abu Dhabi with new hub
• Just under tenth of UK Twitter traffic diverted to news and media sites
• MSN UK’s new homepage: the tour
• Traffic from LinkedIn to BBC News jumps tenfold in six months

Why your opinion doesn’t matter

As a postscript to today’s link to a BuzzMachine post on messy comments, here’s Doug Stanhope on why your opinion doesn’t matter, from Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe last month.

Similar posts:

• Charlie Brooker on how broadcast journalism works
• Welcome to a ‘Charlian’ page. Nothing but Charlie Brooker.
• Heather Brooke on how British journalists avoid accountability by not naming sources
• A lesson in SEO from Charlie Brooker
• Guardian: Charlie Brooker on search engine optimisation

Charlie Brooker on how broadcast journalism works

Charlie Brooker on the latest episode of his satirical masterpiece Newswipe sends up the ‘visual language’ of a typical standard TV news report.

Watch with the sound turned off and you will realise just how close to the bone he cuts.

Similar posts:

• Heather Brooke on how British journalists avoid accountability by not naming sources
• Why your opinion doesn’t matter
• Guardian publishes correction… before the readers write in
• A lesson in SEO from Charlie Brooker
• Welcome to a ‘Charlian’ page. Nothing but Charlie Brooker.

Business Insider: Chart of the Day – US viewers ‘still watch remarkably more video on TV than phones or online’

Business Insider’s Chart of the Day is a cheering one if you work in American TV.

According to US data from Neilsen:

“When looking at average time spent watching each, TV viewing actually grew more – per hour, per person, per month – over the last year than web video. Last quarter, the average US web video viewer watched 3 hours, 11 minutes per month, up about 1 hour each, year-over-year. But the average US TV viewer watched over 40X more video: 141 hours per month, up about 2 hours year-over-year.”

‘Chart Of The Day’ at this link.

Similar posts:

• Mixed fortunes for top US newspapers in November traffic figures
• Business Insider: Chart of the Day – 24% of US newspapers don’t use digital delivery platforms
• Yahoo: US papers grew online audience 6 per cent last year
• BBC News audience up by a quarter on last year
• Fitz & Jen: US Print Council defends newspapers with environmental campaign

Broadcastnow.co.uk: How to be first with the TV news

Leading television journalists explain how they use new technical developments in their work.

Similar posts:

• War correspondents’ awards adds online journalism prize
• Guardian.co.uk: Cyber attack forces Arab TV station website name-change
• Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – seek out online altruism
• Local TV operators criticise new service YouView in letter to Times
• Currybet.net: Journalists need to think like programmers

Mirror.co.uk: Selina Scott sues for age discrimination

The newsreader Selina Scott claims she was ditched by Channel 5 because she is too old, and is fighting for up to £1 million in compensation.

Similar posts:

• News of the World on phone hacking: ‘What happened to them should not have happened’
• MediaGuardian: Former Al Jazeera executive loses discrimination case
• YouTube publishes footage from Life in a Day project
• Jon Snow receives degree 40 years after expulsion
• BBC News audience up by a quarter on last year

Independent: Response to Paxman’s middle-class white male comments

After Jeremy Paxman’s comments that there’s no hope for a middle-class white male to succeed in television, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy has hit back. “I feel awfully sorry for white, middle-class men who went to Oxbridge (…) but I’m not sure they are the ones at the greatest disadvantage,” he said.

Similar posts:

• Channel 4 News extended to cover Coulson resignation and Blair testimony
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy on those awkward interview moments
• Rosie Taylor: ‘Impossible to get a foot in the door without several thousand pounds’
• Channel 4 News sources interviewee via Twitter for the first time
• The BBC is in ‘a vortex of its own making’ Paxman tells awards audience

MediaGuardian: Lack of public support for BBC’s licence fee, suggest poll

An Ipsos Mori poll conducted by MediaGuardian suggests that 37 per cent of the public do not feel the licence fee is an ‘appropriate’ funding structure and 47 per cent do not think it is ‘good value for money’.

Similar posts:

• Sir Michael Lyons on the BBC Trust, the licence fee and how it’s spent
• Distrust in US media at record high, according to Gallup poll
• Media Week: The Times brand is top for attracting business readers
• #jpod in depth: Reporting the phone hacking scandal
• FT.com: BBC has shared licence fee before, according to archives

Yorkshire Evening Post launches online TV series

The Yorkshire Evening Post is to launch its own web-tv series investigating six haunted buildings in Leeds, writes Sinead Scanlon for Journalism.co.uk.

A team from the Post will be joined by television medium Barrie John and ‘paranormal investigator’ Lynne Robinson, a press release from Johnston Press said.

The paper is hoping to appeal to an international online audience with the series, which will also be hosted on a separate website hauntedleeds.co.uk.

“This series represents the opportunities the web has given newspapers like ours. With this series, we’re hopefully going to show what can be achieved by pushing our own relatively modest understanding of video to its limit,” said Geoff Fox, Yorkshire Evening Post’s digital editor and series producer.

“It’s a testament to the willingness of our staff to adapt and embrace modern technology to enable them to successfully explore new mediums outside the realms of print.”

Similar posts:

• NUJ release: Yorkshire Johnston Press journalists to ballot for strike action
• #followjourn – @PaulJNapier PaulJNapier/(soon-to-be) group editorial development director
• NUJ Release: Journalists thank the people of West Yorkshire
• NUJ Release: Johnston Press strikers go south
• Baldy Blogger receives posthumous journalism award

Times: BBC to offer rivals help developing news programmes

According to the Times, the BBC will present details today that will outline a plan to assist rival broadcasters develop TV programming, including news shows.

‘The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio and improve its network coverage from the existing 90 per cent,” says the Times article.

Similar posts:

• MediaGuardian: Ofcom supports ITV plans for cutting back regional news coverage
• Media Release: BBC to partner with commercial radio for new projects
• UK ad spend dropped 4% in 2008, says AdAssoc
• BroadcastNow: Ofcom warns ITV could lose £64m a year on regional news
• Forbes.com: US advertisers will spend more on digital than print in 2010