Archive for March, 2009

ABCe website embarrassingly bad

The website of the ABCe, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) subsidiary responsible for website traffic measurement standards, has been branded ‘embarrassing’ and a ‘disgrace’.

Obama’s way around mainstream media

She was trying to make sure media (literally) used the “right” image of Barack Obama during the campaign. Jodi Williams was one of the many young brains behind Barack Obama’s media campaign. I met her at the Digital News Affairs conference in Brussels to talk about the digital changes in campaigning and dealing with the media. She had no doubt
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FAQ: questions from Maite Fernandez

A few months ago Uruguayan student Maite Fernandez interviewed me about online journalism. I always try to make these responses public for other students who may have the same questions, so here are the answers as transcribed by Maite: 1) How do you think the net affects the transmission of news? One major way lies in distribution. Print news spent
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Forget everything you think you know about Twitter

The following was written for Birmingham City University’s alumni magazine, Aspire. If you’ve followed recent media coverage of Twitter, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a website where people talk about what they’re eating, or stalk minor celebrities.

Shift is happening – useful advice for young journalists

Financial crisis, digital revolution, crumbling media companies – these are shaky days for media and everyone involved in the field. How can journalism students make sense of it all? I asked several of the speakers and participants at the Digital News Affairs conference in Brussels one question: What is the best piece of advice you will give to journalism students
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Six reasons why magazines have a future

“The future of magazines is glorious,” said Simon Wear of magazine house Future UK, wrapping up the industry event ‘What Happens to Magazines?’ held in London lon Monday. “Both print and online,” he added. He would say that, though: Future has been selling a successful 1.7m magazines a month through the recession with its hobby and geek-lad magazines. As written
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New approaches to research in a digital age

In January I made the following presentation to the Association for Journalism Education, talking about how digital technologies can be used to facilitate research. Let me know if you have had any similar experiences with using digital technologies in research yourself. New approaches to research in a digital age View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: paulbradshaw wikis)

The future of online journalism, according to Rue89 and Demotix

Paid content online is a dead end, say the founders of Rue89 and Demotix.

-If you want people to buy your content, you need to provide a lot of added value and that is very expensive. The paid content will never cover you expenses, says Pierre Haski, one of the founder of the French online-only news site Rue89.

Twitter as chatroom – Growing Bolder’s experiences

In a guest post, Katy Widrick of Growing Bolder talks about how they used Twitter to create a live chat aimed at the 50+ demographic Six months ago, if you asked me about all the ways I try and spread the message about Growing Bolder, I would have listed some well-known tools: Digg, Facebook, e-mail campaigns, etc. The name Twitter
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User generated content and citizen journalism (Online Journalism lesson #4)

Lesson 4 in this series of Online Journalism classes looks at User Generated Content (UGC) and Citizen Journalism. Now the students have to think creatively of ways to engage communities in the issues they’re covering (and vice versa): User generated content and citizen journalism View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: onlinejournalism journalism)