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