[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The OJR has initiated a discussion on video journalists whereby “five writers take turns crafting a wiki-style article on ‘one-man bands’ who report, film and edit their own video stories. “
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. This lengthy article in Editor & Publisher gives a good overview of how stats are being used in news organisations. Central to the article seems to be “what should [the] editor do with that knowledge?”. Here’s some key quotes: “Prior to [a] stats upgrade, where Web site stats came into play was with identifiable waves of interest —
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. That’s the upshot of Common Times, “a new social bookmarking site for news developed by Jeff Reifman.” as reported by Poynter. Essentially you bookmark your favourite news stories and the site collates the results of its many users to create a common paper based on the most popular cuttings.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on another award for interactive journalism…
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Very interesting piece in the Press Gazette about the process of producing digital editions of newspapers – and the promising numbers of subscribers to those. Strangely, ABC apparently don’t include digital editions in their numbers because, says Richard Withey, The Independent’s global director of interactive media, “advertisers argue that an advert seen in a facsimile edition is not
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Guardian article – quote: “[Chief executive, Sir Crispin Davis] said Reed’s future growth would be driven by online publishing. Already 40% of subscriptions to its science and healthcare journals are online-only, while the internet accounts for a third of British business publishing revenues..”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. By a circuitous route that I won’t bore you with, I’ve today come across British blog listings site Britblog. Now, blog listings are ten-a-penny (you can see a couple dozen on a previous post), but Britblog actually seems quite useful. Why? Simply because of its focus on British blogs. For a journalist looking to get the blogosphere’s feelings
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on Australian Darren Rowse who is making a tidy sum through advertising revenue on his 17 (count em) blogs. Here’s a quote: “His blogs include Digital Camera Review, Camera Phone Review, and Laptop Review. “Much of his income comes from Google’s AdSense — contextual ads placed on his blogs, in which Rowse shares some of the
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. It seems it wasn’t all just talk when Murdoch expressed the need for newspapers to wake up to the web – now he’s shelled out $580m on Intermix Media, “a US internet company with more than 30 entertainment and community sites.” “Jewel in the crown of the $580m (£331m) deal is myspace.com, a two-year-old site which allows friends
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. I admit it: when I chose Blogger, I was plumping for the easy option. I didn’t spend hours checking out all the different types of blogging systems out there. My choice was based on a few basic facts: that Blogger is probably the best-known free blogging system; that it was owned by Google and therefore should come up
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