Lars K Jensen of the blog Danish Journalism reports that the The Danish School of Media and Journalism has decided that its students must meet a list of requirements that include “RSS, spreadsheets, video and working with photographs and audio files”. Full blog post…
Much as I hate people dictating how Twitter and other social media tools should be used, ‘Josh’ makes a good point about using Twitter for easy vox pops. Simply cutting and pasting Tweets that happen to fit the subject of whatever article you are writing is lazy journalism. It’s also a privacy issue. Full blog post…
US-based site BeatBlogging.org is collecting names of journalists who use Twitter to “help report, find sources, ask questions and more”.
Beatblogging.org is part of NewAssignment.Net, and is on a mission to look at “how journalists can use social networks and other Web tools to improve beat reporting, with an empahsis on “pushing the practice” and spotlighting innovation”, according to the site’s authors.
They have 57 responses so far, mostly US-based. So how about we get a UK thing going here? If you are a journalist using Twitter in the manner described above, please leave a comment with your Twitter handle below. I’m @johncthompson and this blog’s other authors are @jtownend and @lauraoliver. All our news is broadcast on @journalismnews (and you can talk to us on that channel too).
John Butterworth, group editor of Shropshire Newspaper’s weekly series (part of the Midland News Association), was made redundant yesterday, according to HoldtheFrontPage’s Tamlyn Jones. The 55-year-old has a journalistic career spanning 36 years and was awarded an MBE a year ago for services to journalism and various charities. Full story…
After Reuters scoops itself by Twittering from Davos, Schlesinger asks himself “Am I destroying Reuters standards by encouraging tweeting or blogging?” Full blog post…
A press release from the Association of Publishing Agencies begins: “The latest market intelligence on the customer publishing industry from Mintel, commissioned by APA and sponsored by DHL Global Mail, reveals that the communication channel has experienced impressive growth in the face of a tough economic climate for media and marketing.”
Online, keywords can play a vital role in headlines and tags. Here’s 10 tips from Monica Wright (also check out our online sub-editing wiki page). Full story…
Check out this video of a news report in 1981 covering the San Francisco Examiner’s experiments with delivering news electronically to home computers. (hat tip to TechCrunch).
“This is an experiment,” David Cole of the SF Examiner says. “We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.”
Simon Kelner, managing director and editor-in-chief of the UK’s The Independent newspaper, rubbishes rumours that it might go online-only. Full story…
Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today reported a 16 per cent year-on-year increase in unique visitors to the top 10 newspaper Web sites, growing from 34.6 million unique visitors in December 2007 to 40.1 million in December 2008.
NYTimes.com was the number one online newspaper destination in December 2008, with 18.2 million unique visitors. USATODAY.com and washingtonpost.com took the second and third spots, with 11.4 million and 9.5 million unique visitors, respectively. Download PDF release