Before the year ends please allow me to publicly congratulate Azeem Ahmad on winning the Birmingham City University ‘Student Online Journalist of the Year’ award, sponsored by Trinity Mirror. Azeem graduated this year from the journalism degree. For his final year project he worked as the Web Editor for ENO (Environmental News Online), along with Editor Rachael Wilson. Azeem built the site from scratch
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This month’s Carnival of Journalism looks forward to new media developments in the coming year. Here are my no doubt misguided and naive predictions: 2009 will not be the year of the mobile web Every year we make end of year predictions that the coming year will finally see the mobile web hit the mainstream. In many ways, it already
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I recorded this at the Society of Editors conference in November, so forgive my tardiness. This is Donald Martin, a representative of UK training organisation NCTJ talking about the results of a survey they and partners PTC, BJTC and Skillset conducted into employer and university perceptions of skills needed by journalists: Gap between what news recruiters get and what they
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It’s been a while since I did a Something for the Weekend tool review, but Twitter bookmarking service TagThis is such a great tool it needed covering. TagThis allows you to bookmark any URL you see on Twitter to your own account on Delicious or Magnolia. This is particularly useful if, like me, you use Twitter on a mobile phone
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Yet another survey came out this month providing comfort to those who still refuse to believe that new media forms like blogs represent a genuine threat to their businesses. Only 18% of people questioned trusted “personal blogs”, while 39% trusted radio or magazines and 46% print newspapers. I get this sort of stat thrown at me every time I speak
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This is just a bit of curious fun. I can think of a few stories I heard first on Twitter. They are: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (via @martinstabe) The Chinese earthquake (via @scobleizer) The deaths of Bo Diddley and Ted Rogers The resignation of Roy Keane as manager of Sunderland Bank of England lowering interest rate to 2% Russian
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Shaun Milne, founding Director of digital publishing company Planet Ink, shares his decisions and ambitions for new online-only magazine ecoforyou. Why did you go for a turn-page magazine format? There were a number of good reasons, not least it is a fairly straightforward skill to learn. We purchase the technology on license so we don’t need to know much about
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…and it is this: they do not become part of an online community. That may be because they don’t link, or don’t comment, or there’s simply no one else out there. My 5 Stages of a Blogger’s Life hinted at this: there is a moment at which the momentum of starting a blog fades, and a new momentum – the
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By Wilbert Baan The financial crisis speeds up the newspapershift. Media diverges. Newspapers become television, television becomes a press agency. And everything becomes the web. Probably not a single news websites makes enough revenue to employ the same amount of journalists traditional media like newspapers and television employ. The result is a shift. Not in demand, in distribution. What will
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It’s a simple question. Following on from my post on Bild last week, how is your news organisation exploring new sources of revenue? Are they hosting events? Selling photos or merchandise? Selling online services? What are they doing and what would you like to see them doing?
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