Courtesy of Ian Reeves and Kent University’s Centre for Journalism comes a map plotting newspaper video experiences and experiments across the world.
The map is intended as a place for journalists and publishers to share tips and examples of ‘best practice’ in newspaper video journalism and can be contributed to at this link.
From the looks of Comment is Free feedback, the jury’s still out on this one. Is George Monbiot an interviewing force to be reckoned with? “Monbiot grills his subjects, making Paxman look like a pussycat,” Guardian.co.uk says of the environmentalist’s video interview series.
In his latest video offering (can’t be embedded here, you have to visit site) he talks to Shaun Spiers, head of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, and asks Spiers why the campaign opposes windfarms but not opencast coal mines.
Below the video there’s lots of CiF praise balanced with a bit of criticism: is Monbiot really scarier than Paxman?
The BBC has made good on its October promise to launch six new video channels on YouTube in Urdu, Spanish, Russian, Persian, Portuguese and Arabic and has rolled out its Russian stream.
The BBC Russian YouTube channel will feature footage from BBC Russian correspondents and Russian-language reports on major news events.
The other multi-language channels will be launched between now and early 2009, a press release from the corporation said.
YouTube is getting in on the act again ahead of the World Economic Forum at Davos next month by asking users to send their video answers to the following questions:
Are you confident that global growth will be restored in 2009?
Will the environment lose out to the economy in 2009?
Will the Obama administration improve the state of the world in 2009?
Should company executives have a code of ethics similar to doctors and lawyers?
The best clips, which can be uploaded to the site’s Davos channel, will be broadcast at the forum during sessions; while the user who creates the best video, as voted for by other YouTubers, will have the opportunity to attend the event, all expenses paid, as a citizen reporter for YouTube.
In a repeat of last year’s event, a YouTube booth for attendees of the forum to upload their video responses to the debates will also be available, according to a press release.
This seems to be just one strand of the forum’s multimedia activities. It’s also represented on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and questions for press conferences can be submitted via Qik and Mogalus.
Former LA Times interactive technology editor, Eric Ulken, looks at lessons learnt from building the newspaper’s ‘data desk: ‘a cross-functional team of journalists responsible for collecting, analyzing and presenting data online and in print’.
Today sees the first week of Journalism.co.uk putting its new timelines and maps to use – a way of flagging up and documenting important journalism events each day.
We’ve had some good feedback via email and other blogs so far and we’d encourage you to either directly help edit them yourselves, or email us with things you’d like to see added (judith or laura at journalism.co.uk)
The idea is to keep these up-to-date with varied sources, and as frequently as necessary, so we will have built up a good resource to look back on for story research, or other purposes. You can add locations, links, video and photographs to each event.
Dipity is proving a good tool so far, although has a few problems (for example, the automated WordPress RSS feed seems to have disappeared in one of them). We’ll follow up with some more thoughts on using Dipity in the new year.
So link them, use them, and add to them if you feel so inclined. We hope you enjoy and find them useful.
Journalism industry job losses tracked here.
International journalism media freedom tracked here.
CBS Interactive plans to relaunch TV.com, paidContent reports. The network ‘hopes to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination,’ according to PaidContent’s reporter.
Reuters is hosting an interview with David Cameron via Twitter. This morning (Monday), from 10am, the Conservative party leader David Cameron is talking about the economy and the credit crunch at Thomson Reuters’ Canary Wharf office and his speech will be followed by a question and answer session. Users of Twitter can use the tag #askDC to put questions to Cameron, and Reuters will monitor all the responses. The questions are already coming in. The Reuters Newsmaker can be used to track all proceedings.
James Frey, author of a ‘Million Little Pieces’ and ‘Bright Shiny Morning,’ has finished his brief internship at Gawker.com: you can watch the last day part of the day video here, which mainly seems to consist of doughnut shots. The people ‘weren’t as awful’ as he thought they would be, he had a great time – especially doing errands – and he gave back change after doing the Starbucks run.
The comments below the video are worth a read: Journalism.co.uk agrees with @Pope John Peeps II that frothy thing Sheila calls coffee doesn’t look like one to us, and we like @bytememehard’s question: ‘will he [Frey] write a memoir about his experience’?
Guardian News & Media (GNM) has introduced location-based, third party ads into podcasts and audio content.
The ads are relevant to a listener’s location and time.
Clay Shirky, author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’ is the keynote speaker at Online Information 2008, a conference designed to bring together technology and content. Here’s a preview of Shirky from YouTube (part one. Part Two here):
We’ll keep an eye on the Twitter reports which don’t seem to have started yet – probably on this tag when they do.