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Mumbai online: the attacks reported live (updating)

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A look at where the news has unfolded. Please post additional links below. Journalism.co.uk will add in more links as they are spotted.

Washington-based blogger and social media expert, Gaurav Mishra talks to Journalism.co.uk in an interview published on the main page.

One of the few on-the-ground user-generated content examples, Vinu’s Flickr stream (screen grab above). Slide show below:

How it has been reported:

Photography:

  • Flickr users such as Vinu, have uploaded pictures from the scene (images: all rights reserved).
  • A Flickr search such as this one, brings up images from Mumbai, although many are reproduced from a few sources. People have also taken pictures of the television news coverage.
  • But before you re-publish your finds beware: an advanced search which filters pictures by copyright and only shows up images opened up under Creative Commons, limits the results.

Blogs:

Breaking news:

Social Media:

Microblogging:

Mapping:

Video:

  • The Google video seach is here. YouTube videos are mainly limited to broadcast footage, with one user even filming the TV reports, for those without access to live television coverage. YouTube videos seem to be all second-hand broadcasts from mainstream media.

Timelines:

  • Dipity timeline here:

Campaigns / Aid:

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NiemanJournalismLab: New York Times sees success in Facebook push

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The New York Times is celebrating the size of its Facebook group. “An internal memo from the NY Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy touted the newspaper’s ‘successful’ advertising campaign on Facebook,” following the US election, reports the NiemanJournalismLab. The number of fans of the NYTimes Facebok page went up from 49,000 to 164,000.

Roy Greenslade: whole editorial board quits NJ Star-Ledger

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A paper known for its online innovation, like John Hassell’s Expoding Newsroom, now sees its entire editorial board leave.

Greenslade reports via FollowTheMedia that the entire editorial board – except for the cartoonist – have accepted redundancy terms at New Jersey’s Star-Ledger.

“The board (who are responsible for the comment and opinion pages) are among 151 editorial staff, about 45 per cent of the newsroom, leaving the paper,” Greenslade reports.

‘Trust and integrity in the modern media’ – Chris Cramer’s speech to Nottingham Trent University

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This is the full transcript of a speech given by Chris Cramer, global head of multimedia for Reuters’ news operations, at Nottingham Trent University last night. Journalism.co.uk’s report on the address can be read at this link.

So I accepted this invitation shortly after I retired from CNN international – where I was managing director and where I’d been for 11 years or so.

I became a consultant for Reuters news in January and now, in the last few months, have become their first global editor for multimedia.

So, I’m talking to you today as a working journalist, broadcaster and manager for 43 years now and what I would like to talk about is ‘trust and integrity in the modern media’.

I also want to ask the question of you whether the media has maybe lost the message somewhere along the way?

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From the Frontline: Jon Ronson @7pm UK time – watch here

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Live stream from the Frontline Club tonight: ‘Insight with Jon Ronson’. Peter Curran will chair tonight’s event.

“Why are Iraqi prisoners of war being forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur’s theme tune repeatedly, at top volume? Why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? Has the US army really enlisted the help of Uri Geller? In The Men Who Stare at Goats, soon to be made into a feature film with an all-star cast, author Jon Ronson searches for answers to these and many other questions, revealing some of the extraordinary beliefs at the core of the War on Terror.”

UPDATE: we have removed the video portion while we search for the right archived footage from the frontline.

UK-US dictionary needed for the blogosphere!

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Journalism.co.uk is starting to think a US dictionary could be useful for this international blog lark.

Completely thrown off track with a US use of ‘chuffed’ in its negative sense…

And of course, there’s the old ‘pissed’ one: you could be drunk in the UK and annoyed in the US. What other confusions have people picked up on the US/UK blog rounds?

Jarvis reflects on name-calling in the blogground

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Over at Buzz Machine today Jeff Jarvis reflects on a blog attack that left him feeling a bit wounded – it even caused his parents to ask why someone was having a go at him.

It’s the ‘perils of publicness’ he writes. The original piece by Ron Rosenbaum at Slate.com criticised Jarvis, among other things, for his high profile conference circuit and questioned his reporting credentials.

Jarvis first responded here, with a blog post entitled ‘There, there Ron.’ Rosenbaum then left a comment calling him a … ‘meta-bloviator’. Plenty of comments to get through on that one.

And with the latest post, on it goes…

Calling himself an ‘obnoxious optimist’ Jarvis writes:

“Maybe that’s what happens: We all get attacked once and become wiser for it. Or we all get attacked and become nastier for it; that’s the fear. There were always be trolls, fools, idiots, and assholes; there are in life and so they will be here on the internet. That doesn’t ruin the internet any more than it ruins New York. The question is whether and how we can see and protect the value of the internet. Optimist that I am, I believe we will.”