[Keyword: online journalism]. Runner’s World, of all things, is being used as a blueprint, according to the Media Guardian. Welcome to the world, NatMags, although it’s worrying that none of the new staff seem to be there to produce content and “Editorial content and control will rest with existing magazine editorial teams”. So, how do you prevent this being another
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[Keyword: online journalism, citizen journalism]. So reports Journalism.co.uk: “Red Herring reports that Yahoo! is working on a way to use a five-digit number – called a common short code – that will allow a user to upload video directly from their mobile phone via an MMS message.”
[Keyword: online journalism]. The Guardian, of course, has announced that it is to publish more stories online ahead of its print version. Great, lovely, super, as Jim Bowen would say. But there’s a good analysis at Poynter, which picks up on the line saying that some stories will be held back for print publication. “It remains to be seen how
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[Keyword: online journalism, computer assisted reporting]. Here’s a good set of tips from the Online Journalism Review on using the internet to improve your journalism. “Online writers can solicit leads and advice from readers through open source reporting, or even ask readers to report a story themselves, through a distributed reporting project.” This really forces you to re-think some of
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[Keyword: online journalism]. Martin Stabe responds to criticism of the Press Gazette Citizen Journalism awards in the latest issue (including from myself), demonstrating neatly how journalism is becoming more of a ‘dialogue’ as consumers become producers. He sums up the objections in four areas: Protectionist (“they’re not real journalists, but we are”) Overbroad (“most of it’s not intended to be
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[Keyword: online journalism]. Here’s a great and well-considered article by Eric Kintz on the need for bloggers to ignore the principle of frequent posting. More important in a world swamped with bloggers, is to write quality posts and get involved in the blogosphere. It’s quite a wake-up call – although it should be remembered that many bloggers (myself included) use
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[Keyword: online journalism]. Hold the Front Page reports on the latest move into online video by The Telegraph & Argus in Bradford. “The T&A TV News service is being updated with a new video news story every day and has already broken one big exclusive – the first interview of any kind with Ayaz Ali, the Bradford charity worker freed
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[Keyword: online journalism]. The Press Gazette reports News International chairman Les Hinton revealing “plans for The Times to launch a broadband service called Times TV.” “Research shows a doubling of brand commitment when newspapers are added to a TV schedule. And that the brands most often recommended to a friend, or searched for online, or asked for at retailers, are
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[Keyword: online journalism]. Journalism.co.uk reports on a new content brokering agency due to launch next week: ScooptWords – an extension of “citizen photojournalism agency” Scoopt. The article reports that bloggers will be able to “place a button on their website indicating an article is available for re-publication. Publishers then use the service to make a transaction earning them syndication rights
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[Keyword: online journalism]. There’s a great ‘Reporter’s Guide to Online News Delivery’ in the latest Press Gazette which covers a good range of material such as: A history of British online journalism (that refreshingly goes much earlier than 1994′s Electronic Telegraph) How newspapers should make use of new media (by one of the best writers in the area, The Guardian’s
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