There’s a fairly lengthy discussion about citizen journalism available over at the BBC’s Digital Planet. It’s entry-level stuff – if you’ve heard the phrases “filtering role” and “democratisation” you’ve heard most of it before, although Bill Thomson’s distinction between user generated content (UGC) and citizen journalism (CJ) is interesting: UGC has no commercial value; CJ does.
I’ve been grappling further with the issue of audio journalism and podcasting, and discussing the issue with ‘ podcasting expert’ Andrew Dubber. What is beginning to emerge from our discussions (audio versions in full below) includes the idea that audio does three things particularly well: Actuality – the feeling of being there Debate – the opportunity to interject, the tone
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Interesting piece at MediaPost about producing media for mobile phones (subscription required): “Launches like the new InStyle Mobile magazine, the free FastLane mobile TV channel on Sprint, and the Toyota-branded entertainment for the FJ Cruiser all suggest a new theme for mobile: if less is more, then more of less is even better. Each of these applications offers bucketloads of
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It seems the Daily Mail aren’t keen on criticism. According to Martin Belam, his comment posted on a Daily Mail story, ‘ Suicide generation: five-year-olds calling helpline‘, was edited to remove a line criticising the paper’s reporting: The published comment reads: “If you actually read the report ChildLine issued, it does not say that suicidal five year olds called ChildLine.
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FirstPerson, an MSNBC.com project, looks like one of the best mainstream CJ projects I’ve ever seen, combining a number of imaginative requests for user generated content and backing them up with editorial support and filtering, user votes to “engender a sense of ownership and loyalty”, and exposure on TV, as MediaPost reports: “In recent weeks, FirstPerson tied in with NBC
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A colleague has introduced me to FeedYes, a service that will create an RSS feed for your site, or indeed for sites you wish had one. Very useful for people running an indie news service who don’t have the time to get to grips with XML. Clarification: this service is most useful for sites with no RSS or XML component
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An interesting model from Robin Hamman on different types of blog. The ‘closed’ blog is your typical family/holiday/baby blog, aimed at a close circle of people; the ‘conduit’ blog is the type of blog that people create when they really need a website – a repository of information for a limited audience; The ‘participant’ blog is more complex. These “are
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Poynter has a nice list of ‘Letters to the Editor Blogs’: “Examples include the Decatur (IL) Herald-Review, the Tacoma (WA) News Tribune, The Australian, and The Economist. In my own town, the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera letter blog recently garnered well-deserved praise from BusinessWeek blogger Stephen Baker.” Author Stephen Baker also suggests some features he’d like to see, including a
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That seems to be the subtext of Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino’s statement, as the Guardian reports that FT.com is likely to continue to rely on subscription revenues: “As debate online has become more diffuse – hundreds of thousands or millions of voices on each topic – it has become less helpful in a way,” she said. “The trend
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I love MEN (for purely journalistic reasons)
Sorry, I couldn’t resist that headline. The Manchester Evening News (MEN) has been relaunched and – forgive me for not knowing which bits are new and which are not, but this really does look very good. Aside from the lovely clean navigation there’s clearly some attention been paid to the strengths of the web: Have Your Say is one of
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