The Guardian is to recruit online video and audio staff, reports the paper: “Guardian Unlimited, the title’s online operation, is looking to hire five staff for its internet video unit to work on footage of breaking news, as well as “developing mini documentaries and video elements within larger, cross media projects”.”As well as the five online video staff, GU is
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Advertisers aren’t interested in 200,000 users, reports MarketWatch: “So, how does Rocketboom keep the lights on? Baron says the video blog has become kind of a loss leader and a promotional device for the real money. Like a blog, he says he has established the Rocketboom team as experts in using video on the Web. “We get consulting opportunities, conferences
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“Online resource and discussion area for media website editors” the Digital Editors Network gets a plug in the latest Press Gazette letters page. It’s pretty quiet at the moment, both in terms of posts and comments, and it’s not clear whether media website editors have been invited to post to the site, or only comment (I’m guessing the latter). As
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Slate is tapping into three “political prediction markets” to put together a ‘wisdom of crowds’ prediction for the 2008 election: “If a single prediction market is wiser than the pundits and the polls, imagine how wise all the prediction markets are together. That’s the idea behind Slate’s “Political Futures,” which offers a comprehensive guide to all the big political prediction
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Here’s a witty video (scroll down) to show you what not to do in multimedia interactives (thanks to Mindy McAdams)
Journalism.co.uk reports on the relaunch of the Express, with the Daily Star to follow, including: “unique content and an archive which allows readers to search past stories and the community areas of the site. “a string of blogs from its Sunday and Daily journalists. “MYExpress facility that enables users to have their own space on the site. This area can
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Last week I had the tall task of introducing students to online video in barely three hours. Thankfully they were thoroughly engaged in the subject – particularly enjoying the examples I showed (most of them in my previous post on four types of video journalism. In order to get them using the editing software (rather than Avid I picked something
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And here’s what they say about it on their blog. It’s very big.
According to Holdthefrontpage.co.uk Trinity Mirror is to upgrade its sites with “breaking news, video, audio, blogs and user-generated content.” This includes a training programme with “a series of week-long video journalism courses and a series of one-day multimedia workshops, which will be attended by more than 70 journalists in the North West region before being rolled out across the division.”
Students launch kids’ news website
A group of third year students on our journalism degree are running a live website all week. 4 You is aimed at 11-16 year olds and the group are finding writing for the audience hard. Melissa Marshall, fashion and features editor for the group said: “We are only in our second day of the website but already it is pretty
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