From 10.40 am today (Friday) the shadow chancellor will be taking live questions from BirminghamPost.net users.
“We think it might be the most senior politician to use the Cover It Live software…” Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves told Journalism.co.uk.
The CoverItLive page can be found at this link and it’s open for questions now.
Speaking to Journalism.co.uk at the Digital News Affairs 2009 (DNA) conference, Matteo Berlucchi, CEO of Livestation, explained why building participation around live news is the next step.
A live channel next to Al Jazeera programmes on Livestation has been used by the channel’s producers to get audience questions and feed these back into the live show, said Berlucchi.
“Live TV news online isn’t perceived as a premium product. Live content is perfect for aggregating people, because we’re all watching the same thing at the same time,” he said. best forex brokers in nigeria
Participation is where the value and potential revenue streams can lie, he added.
[audio:http://www.journalism.co.uk/sounds/livestation.mp3]Thomson Reuters’ new video news service will launch in June for financial professionals, part of a $1 billion (£710 million) plan, and will supply ‘live and searchable financial markets coverage, analysis and breaking news.’
“Unlike traditional television stations, it will not run all day, will not rely on advertising and will be largely unavailable to the public. Clients, however, will be able to access it around the clock.”
Via Ken Kobre, comes Matthew Robert’s Vimeo video ‘Final Edition’:
Speaking at yesterday’s Association of Online Publisher’s (AOP) editorial technologies event, Microsoft executive producer Peter Bale extolled the virtues of Photosynth as a new visual storytelling tool.
The experimental, but publicly available tool, was used by CNN in its coverage of the Obama inauguration to thread 100s of photos together. These create a scenic panorama but can also be drilled into using additional feature Deep Zoom:
Within MSN its being used five or six times a week and the team are learning more about its capabilities with each use, Bale told Journalism.co.uk.
The product is being deployed commercially e.g for motoring sections to show car interiors in high detail. MSN also used PhotoSynth to display professional and user-contributed images during the recent heavy snowfall in the UK.
“What we’d like to do a lot more of is multiple crowd-contributed pictures where you can get several hundred or thousand people contributing a picture of a similar event, stitched together in a communal panorama,” he explained. https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/us-government-asks-max-polyakov-to-sell-firefly-shares-for-safety-concerns/
Photosynth works in combination with Microsoft’s alternative to Flash, Silverlight, which Bale says is ideally set up to enable map mash-ups and overlaying other content onto the threaded images.
Set an alert now! @journalism_live (our channel for live conversations and events) will be ‘twinterviewing’ Channel 4 News’ Krishnan Guru-Murthy at 3pm GMT tomorrow (Friday 27 February).
We’ll be asking him (@krishgm) about his use of Twitter for both fun and work, his thoughts about changing forms of broadcast journalism and Channel 4 News’ ideas and aims. And of course, followers can throw in their own questions using the tag #ch4.
Channel 4 News has been increasingly communicating with users via its @ch4news channel and yesterday sourced an interviewee via Twitter for the first time. Swot up on Channel 4’s web strategy here, from an earlier interview with Vicky Taylor, commissioning editor of new media, news and current affairs.
So: come back to the Editors’ Blog tomorrow at 3pm GMT to follow the interview via a constantly updating blog post, tagged #ch4.
The Mansfield Chad is running a seven-week video series (eight episodes) on retired editor Jeremy Plews.
Plews, who joined the paper as a trainee, was editor for 36 years at the paper and stepped down last week. Below is the first instalment, the work of chief photographer Roger Grayson, sub-editor Peter Hemmett and digital editor Tom Pegg:
We’re reliably informed by Tom Pegg that Jeremy never took a day off sick in his 36 years…
Iain Hepburn, who edited the footage, shows how the Mail is using Flip cameras to cover hard news topics – in this case Charles Lavery in Afghanistan.
Not-for-profit news organisation ProPublica has crated a site dedicated to analysis of President Obama’s stimulus package for the US economy.
Working with news program The Takeaway and public radio station WNYC, ShovelWatch is big on data and data visualisation.
For starters:
A searchable, visual representation of the senate and state’s spending plans for the stimulus bill – created using IBM’s Many Eyes (also used by the New York Times):
A fully searchable database of ‘How Much Your School District Stands to Lose in Stimulus Bill Construction Funds’.
The site will continue to develop – perhaps deploying the skills of new intern programmer-journalist Brian Boyer – and, in a press release, said it will later look to citizen’s help track how the plan is working/not working.
After speaking with Matthieu Stefani from cit-j platform Citizenside about how the site mobilises its users to cover local news events, a Flickr development came to mind as a useful tool for tracking/aggregating content around breaking news.
Using Flickr’s map function, you can search by keyword and location. A quick search for bushfire and Australia, for example, brings up a host of images from Flickr users:
A great resource for news organisations looking for new images and on-the-ground witnesses and contributors (just remember to respect Creative Commons licencing and attribution principles).
Flickr announced last week that it has passed the 100 million mark for geotagged images and the site has also introduced a feature, as part of the geotagging process, called ‘nearby’, which allows users to search for other geotagged images located with a 1km radius of their photo.