For the next two days I’ll be meeting bloggers from across Europe at the European Bloggers Unconference (previously reported here). Assuming I don’t look too rude texting away, I’ll be Twittering throughout. Check out my Twitter account for updates.
A colleague of mine once wrote a hugely entertaining blog post entitled ‘How to go to uni‘. As the new term begins, here’s my supplement: How to be a journalism student. (Note: there is now a wiki if you want to add extra tips/corrections/clarifications). Also available in Polish. Read the news. Amazingly, some journalism students don’t read newspapers. I don’t
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Following hot on the heels of the email from a Brazilian online journalism student comes one from Carol Bernanda of Quezon City in the Philippines. Once again, here are the questions and my answers: Q. What is your description of blog journalism/what is blog journalism? Blog journalism is journalism that is published using a blog. Nothing more, nothing less. Q.
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Here’s the second report I wrote for Press Gazette from the Future of Newspapers conference last week. The version which appeared in Press Gazette is here; the original is below: Former Guardian editor Peter Preston has said that owners who are “giving up the ghost” must take some responsibility for the decline of newspapers.
If you’re at the PICNIC conference/festival in Amsterdam this week and want to say hello, drop me a line before Wednesday. I’ll be flying on Wednesday morning and at the European Bloggers Unconference (one of the partner events) throughout Thursday and Friday.
The following was written for Press Gazette last week – in between the last presentation on Thursday and a drinks evening. The edited (and probably better) version that appeared in print is here. The original draft which led with Jane Singer’s paper is below: The future of news is more free newspapers, more ‘viewspapers’ – and less money, according to a
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Local newspapers looking for ideas to bring readers to their websites could do a lot worse than look at The Wiki City project. This aims to apply wiki technology to the mapmaking process, with the project ultimately permitting “anyone to upload content to a map and utilize Semantic Web principles to cross search multiple layers of information.”
TMZ and the New York Times are the latest news organisations to dip a toe in the world of multimedia commenting. The NYT recently posted a video ‘letter to the editor’, while the TMZ.com blog is letting readers post audio comments, with video comments in the pipeline. They join the San Francisco Chronicle, who earlier in the year started podcasting voice
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Brazilian online journalism student Gabriela Zago has emailed me a number of questions about wikis and OJ. Here are my responses (the links are mine): Q. How did you came up with the idea of writing an article about wiki journalism in a wiki format? Has the text received any more changes and contributions after the version presented at the Future
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While my post on the 21st century newsroom gathers pingbacks, I’d like to re-publicise the following: My experiment with crowdsourcing a review of candidates for the Association of Online Publishing awards is still open – please contribute a line or two on one of the websites up for an award if you can. And may I once again extend an invitation
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