[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. That’s “more than half of its planned new product development spend,” reports Media Week, as the company “seeks to stabilise the business after announcing pre-tax losses of £49m in the last financial year.” Chief executive Stevie Spring is quoted as saying: “Over the past two years, we spent all of our money on acquisitions to fill
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. Jeff Jarvis has been speaking to Ed Roussel, head of online for the Telegraph, “about the paper-site’s scoop last night on the hiring of BBC Chairman Michael Grade by struggling ITV”, providing an insight into the workings of the newly integrated newspaper: “Roussel said the Grade story was a model for how it should work on
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. You don’t get much more establishment than this: Journalism.co.uk reports that “The Pulitzer Prize Board has established new rules allowing newspapers to submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video for its journalism awards.” Save this story on del.icio.us / Digg this story Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. Press Gazette published its final issue with plenty of online journalism news – detailed below. Those wanting their fix of news from the excellent Martin Stabe should check out his own blog at http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/ (RSS feed generally only says something like ‘links for 2006-11-22″ but it’s worth clicking through to the site). Here’s
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. Flicking through Internet Newspapers, a book edited by Xigen Li and collecting a range of articles on the medium I came across an interesting piece of research by Xigen Li and Zhanwei Cao on the ‘Effect of Growing Internet Newspapers on Circulation of U.S. Print Newspapers’. Namely: “First, the study found circulation of print newspapers has
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. The ghettoisation of citizen journalism continues, it seems, with the BBC’s announcement of a news programme based entirely on user-generated material. “Your News, which began a pilot run on Saturday,” reports Journalism.co.uk, “will feature stories, features and video proving most popular with viewers on TV and the internet.” This follows the previously reported
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, social networking]. Journalism.co.uk reports that “A computer platform that allows newspapers to share news and classified advertising will launch early next month. “US-based CityTools will enable newspaper publishers to create content networks with one another and draw on articles written by members of the public.“If you spin the CityTools model forward, you can go to your
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. My latest Stirrer column looks at crowdsourcing. Here’s the article in full: The power of crowds Some journalists are afraid of their readers. They refuse to publish an email address at the end of their article; the newspaper website does not list their phone number; and as for ‘citizen journalism’, well, we didn’t
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. Thanks to colleague Dave Harte for pointing this one out: it’s a webpage that tells you how in touch the BBC news agenda is by comparing what the BBC currently has as its running order on its site and what people are actually reading. Actually, 43% is probably a decent result compared to most publications… Save
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[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. The OJR provides an overview of online election coverage in the US and “finds that many newspaper websites are not making full use of the Web to inform readers about local candidates.” Save this story on del.icio.us / Digg this story
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