Virtual intern Natalie Chillington rounds up last week’s online journalism-related news Google Google will announce a new metrics tool to measure web site audience, to rival current power players Nielsen and ComScore. Lots of debate over whether Google is making us stupid WordPress Puffbox.com announces it will be sponsoring WordCamp UK in July,bringing together around 100 devotees of WordPress in
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Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced that, from next year, “prime-time advertising on public television will be phased out, with the lost revenues to be replaced by taxes collected from internet, mobile phone and commercial broadcasting companies
Semantic journalism is a vision for the future of journalism. As the writer works on her article, her computer would gather data on the matter, from pictures to other articles to assessing global opinion trends. It would read through the Wikipedia pages of a given theme and summarize key concepts. A semantic algorithm would bring a selection of the most
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A couple months ago I was leafing through the Broadcast Journalism Training Council guidelines. Drawn up a few years ago (well, 2005), they look worryingly similar to those ‘web journalism’ courses that simply consist of teaching journalists to design webpages. In their guidelines [PDF - page 21] they say students should produce:
“This book is my manifesto for the media as a journalist but also as a citizen of the world. As a journalist you are constantly being told that the news media have enormous power to shape society and events, to change lives and history. So why are we so careless as a society about the future of journalism itself ?”
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My live coverage of the Investigative Journalism Goes Global conference seemed to polarise opinion among the Twitterati. The Guardian’s Neil McIntosh and Charles Arthur, the BBC’s Bill Thompson, and Pete Ashton all unsubscribed from my updates – and those were just the ones I know about.
I’ve had an email about The Sky Young Journalist Awards which “aims to find and celebrate the very best journalist talent across online, television, radio and print.” Its aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds to report on local, national or international news stories that matter to them. It sounds pretty worthy, so here’s the rest of the fluff:
The following are answers to a question posed by Greg Manset (via Facebook, naturally):How can journalists use Facebook? As a great way to find contacts. For example: say you cover the health industry and you add 20 of your contacts to Facebook – by looking at their friends you may be able to find other contacts you wouldn’t otherwise have
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Improve your community with a reputation system – Yahoo! maps 9 of them: http://twurl.nl/vl32mv # Using Who Should I Follow again – but it only takes your first 500 friends, so the recommendations include people I already follow. Shame. # Read a very good dissertation on online journalism ethics: Facebook people would be upset if journalists used their info #
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Yahoo! have released a family of Reputation patterns: “They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.” Why is this important? The patterns are a wonderful resource for any news organisation looking to plan a community element in which
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