ITV News are to “air citizen reporters’ videos”, according to The Guardian. ‘Uploaded’ (oh dear.) will “allow members of the public to post video clips on the Uploaded website via mobile phone or webcam, responding to a daily “debate of the day” set by ITV News.” Yep, it’s the old ‘charitable gesture’ approach to citizen journalism. ITV choose the topic, choose the
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If you’re one of the many journalism graduates wandering the jobs pages this summer, here’s my Five-Step Plan® to getting a job in journalism Get a job, it doesn’t matter what. Nothing makes a person employable like being already employed. Plus you now have an employer’s reference. You’ll be making new contacts and learning new things, giving you more to
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Not the usual post title you get on this blog, but if you want to hear me waffling talking expertly about social networks, feel free to pop along to tonight’s Moseley Creative Forum from 7.00 –9.00pm at Moseley Community Development Trust (more details below). Here’s the blurb: ‘How to develop your business through on-line social networks’ Join us for a
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I’ve set up an Online Journalism Blog Facebook Group so you can find out who else is reading, post messages to the Wall, start discussions, and occasionally find pearls of wisdom. No doubt I’ll also find ways to experiment with this toy too. Please click on the link above to sign up – it’ll be great to say hello.
Shane Richmond is asking for contributions to a list of classic blog posts on online journalism. For some reason my comments don’t seem to have gone through, so here’s my list of the essential reads for online journalists: For an overview of the forms and possibilities of online journalism: Jonathon Dube’s Online Storytelling Forms For a mind-blowing insight into the
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Do you know anything about the use of wikis in journalism? In September I will be presenting a paper on Wiki Journalism at the Future of Newspapers conference in Cardiff (it looks set to be a very good two days). And of course the best way to write a paper on wiki journalism is to publish it as a wiki…
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A survey by Matt King for the Online Journalism Blog indicates it may only be a matter of time before we see the first UK experiment with ‘wiki journalism’, with news organisations ranging from the BBC to Sky excited about the potential of wiki technology. Robin Hamman, Senior Broadcast Journalist and Producer for the BBC told Online Journalism Blog: “The
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As solo sports journalist Rick Waghorn relaunches his Norwich City news website in the first step towards franchising the service, I spoke to him about going solo, the importance of advertising, and the likely first places for the franchise to expand. Originally, Waghorn says, the plan was to offer a franchise “in much the same way as you would set
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A few weeks ago I talking wikis with the online journalism students at UCE. I asked them to brainstorm – in 60 seconds – ideas for wikis in their correspondent areas. The resulting ideas were surprisingly good – some would work well as stand-along public wikis, while others would provide strong material for a follow-up journalist-structured piece. In general they
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Here’s a second audio recording (again split into smaller sections) from the AJE conference on convergence. This one is on Convergence in the Classroom, presented by Andy Price of Teesside University . The highlight of the conference for me was Andy’s ‘four dimensions of online journalism’ model – I’m hoping Andy can supply a graphic at some point, but for the moment
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