[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. So asks Steve Outing. He answers positively, but with some examples of press release-style examples that highlight the potential problems with the form.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. “Inform.com is a new news search engine/aggregator that competes with the likes of Topix.net and Google News,” reports Poynter (my last link to them today, honest). “Inform’s technology scours news articles deeper than its competitors, it seems. (For instance, on a Web article that “jumps” four pages, Inform analyzes all four pages of content.) One thing that impressed
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. To quote in full: “Some 200 people are taking part in the 2nd International Congress of Online Journalism in Maracay, Venezuela, this week. As part of the first day’s issues, there were lectures about digital narrative, legislation, and digital content. On Friday, the last day of the event, speakers will be talking about weblogs, including a track about
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. …That is the question, or at least in Norway, where the Norwegian Code of Press Ethics is being revised, according to Poynter: “The committee proposing a new Code claims that it’s the duty of an editor to read through and accept or reject every post in a forum. Clearly this is a hard line to follow, and a
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Kudos to the Star Tribune for putting together this Flash presentation on their recent print and online redesign, although they could have made the navigation clearer rather than simply require you to guess what each of the ’10 reasons’ is by having to click on a number (FYI: no.5-10 are about the website).
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. “The BBC has appointed Pete Clifton to head its news interactive unit, overseeing the popular BBC News website and Ceefax services.”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. As someone who’s been teaching the skill for three years I’m looking forward to reading Mindy McAdams’ book on Flash Journalism (nice coining-of-phrase there, by the way) – in the meantime, she’s written an overview of the practice at Online Journalism Review with some of the reasons why journalists use Flash, summed up in the following quote: “Flash
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter notes the potential beginnings of an interesting trend as “Toronto Globe and Mail reporter Shawna Richer [is] given the go-ahead to spend the entire 2004-05 hockey season covering the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hot rookie, Sidney Crosby [...] she’ll be blogging about Crosby daily (or near daily).” The move is hardly surprising given the media’s obsession with celebrity, but
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Here’s an interesting article by the editor of the Globe Gazette about the less than positive experience he had of letting readers post comments on stories – an experience that led him to scale down the number of articles he allowed to be commented on… “You might think our in-box would have been full of congratulations and good
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. It’s great to see that Blogger has now added the facility to see which blogs are linking to your postings – something I’d previously relied on Technorati to do, but which wasn’t too effective as it only applies to Technorati members. This is likewise is limited to Blog Search-listed sites but that’s a much larger population to draw
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