[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Thanks to Poynter for collecting a number of examples of Flash journalism around the story of “the Chilean armed forces’ worst peacetime disaster” when “Thirty-five young, inexperienced recruits died after they were sent to the mountain while a fierce snowstorm was beginning.” Many of the examples are in Flash but you still get a good idea: “The media
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Here’s a discussion piece from the OJR about magazines’ future with some interesting opinions. As usual in my editorial role I’ll pick out the best bit: “Jay Rosen: People who hope that the fundamentals of journalism won’t change tend to attach those hopes to statements about unchanging media forms, like, ‘I’ve lived through the death of print three
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. That’s the upshot of this article from the American Journalism Review, which highlights a number of new companies venturing into online news – as well as recent trends in major news organisations buying into online operations like About.com and MarketWatch. The most useful point comes right at the end of the article, however, in these caveats: “Jai Singh,
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The NUJ’s New Media Industrial Council has launched its own blog at http://nujnewmedia.blogspot.com/ – quite empty at the moment but expect it to fill up as contributors sign up (including me). You can also subscribe to the Council’s mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nuj-newmedia/
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter provides links to in-house publications at the Wall Street Journal and New York Times that “offers an interesting behind-the-scenes look at The New York Times. Among the topics covered recently: redesign efforts at the newspaper, focusing on the new Travel section and Book Review; [...] and a look at the Public Editor’s first year on the job.”
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The Digital Bulletin reports that the BBC has launched a bursary in honour of its science and technology writer Ivan Noble, who died from a brain tumour this year. “The annual bursary will give a journalist, who has recently completed a journalism course or has less than two years’ journalistic experience, the chance to work on bbc.co.uk for
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. I’ve always been a big fan of the email newsletter as a medium, so it’s good to see that some listings-based emails are making money from advertising, according to The Guardian. “Both newsletters are free to subscribers and while Urban Junkies is aimed at a mixed audience, Daily Candy is unashamedly female in its focus. Balfour believes that
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. …That’s the upshot of this research (PDF) by Eric Ulken. He analysed news articles that are brought up by Google’s supposedly bias-immune algorithms, and found that the lack of human editors resulted in more biased sources being used. He talks about his findings at the Online Journalism Review.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Letting your readers contribute to an article is not particularly new (oh I’m so jaded), but here’s a recent experiment from MIT Technology Review – and some background/comment to it.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Journalism.co.uk reports that news sites can now buy a virtual newsreader to read out stories for around £250 (a half price deal on till the end of May). You can have fun with a demo at creators Daden’s site, which will read out RSS feeds.
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