[Keyword: online journalism]. Douglas Ahlers has published a useful paper in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (Vol. 11, No. 1, 29-52) on ‘News Consumption and the New Electronic Media’ (PDF). It looks at people’s consumption of news across online and offline media, as well as the threat to newspaper advertising from the web. Ahlers argues that: “Theories of the
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[Keyword: online journalism]. It would be easy to overlook ‘Lads’ Mags’ in looking at online journalism, but a quick tour around the likes of FHM.com brings up some innovative uses of the medium. The site makes particularly strong use of video – showing, if nothing else, that they know exactly what their readership wants. The centrefold shoot? So old hat.
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[Keyword: online journalism]. I’ve yet to see the print version but Press Gazette’s website has already published the articles from this week’s Reporter’s Guide to Citizen Journalism: here’s the page’s text with links in full: “Our Reporter’s Guide to Citizen Journalism is introduced by Mike Ward of theUniversity of Central Lancashire, who argues that professional news organisations cannot afford to
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[Keyword: online journalism]. It’s all about on-demand services, says this article by the BBC itself. And as if Microsoft wasn’t big enough, it sounds like they’ll be able to leverage the BBC brand, as Ashley Highfield, director of the BBC’s new media division, “said the BBC would work with technology firms like Microsoft.”
[Keyword: online journalism]. Citizen journalism as a buzzword seems to be gathering pace in newsrooms around the country, and at the same time losing some of its definition. Consider this report from the latest Press Gazette, categorised ‘citizen journalism’ and sneeringly headlined The day ‘Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells’ took over the news room. It covers “a one-day project that handed
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[Keyword: online journalism]. So reports Journalism.co.uk: “Inspired by visits to converged newsroom initiatives in the US, new online city editor Philip Aldrick will be leading a drive to provide early morning, breaking-markets news like a wire service, increasing the amount of content unique to the website. “Currently around 90 per cent of content from the newspaper is reproduced online; the
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[Keyword: online journalism]. The Media Guardian reports on plans to link The Sun website “to the recently acquired and hugely popular MySpace.com community and networking site to create a “MySun” online readers’ network.” This isn’t a new idea – New Jersey Online did something similar in the late 90s – but it does build on a massive base of “60
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There’s a post by Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism: Courageous journalism: Yahoo! News about the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism being “awarded to Kevin Sites. In case you (and your students) don’t know about Sites, he’s one of those “backpack journalists” that some old-school newsroom types might scoff at (“No one can do it
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[Keyword: online journalism]. The Guardian is promoting the launch of its CommentIsFree blog experiment with a couple of articles in today’s paper – the first, a comment piece by US columnist Arianna Huffington, who was involved in a similar experiment in the US (which, by the way, isn’t nearly as good as the Guardian’s attempt). The sharpest point of her
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[Keyword: online journalism]. The tabloids aren’t particularly well-known for their use of the web in their journalism, but yesterday’s News Of The World demonstrates that one area in particular – the video ‘sting’ – could prove increasingly fruitful. “Blowing the whistle”on Footballers’ Wives star Holly McGuire’s “secret life of vice” the paper’s cover story pushed readers to the website to
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