It’s an modern day battle: journalist versus blogger. Often operating in the same field, but with very different aims and objectives, some traditional reporters are wary of this new breed of content creator. However, a new Beat-Blogger role, created by The Guardian, has brought the 2 fields closer together. Having a local blogger based in several cities around the UK,
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With so much news content available online and a host of ways to promote and share that material it’s often hard for journalists and bloggers to know how to make their content stand out. There are a host of companies offering a quick fix to this problem with promises of Facebook friends and sky-high traffic stats. However, some of the
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With 2 years to go to the 2012 Olympics, the BBC are already starting to plan their online coverage of the event. With a large, creative team at hand who have experimented with maps, visualisations and interactive content in the past, the pressure is on them to keep the standards high. At the recent News:Rewired event, OJB caught up with
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Last week, the COI (Central Office of Information) released a report on the “websites run by ministerial and non-ministerial government departments”, detailing visitor numbers, costs, satisfaction levels and so on, in accordance with COI standards on guidance on website reporting (Reporting on progress: Central Government websites 2009-10). As well as the print/PDF summary report (Reporting [...]
Currently running as a registration service, The Times plan to launch their paid-for site in the next few weeks. So far they are reluctant to release initial registration figures and the demographic audience they are attracting. OJB caught up with Assistant Editor and Head of Online Tom Whitwell at News:Rewired to find out more: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWt1b14yx8]
Continuing my exploration of what is and isn’t acceptable around the edges of doing stuff with other people’s data(?!), the Guardian datastore have just published a Google spreadsheet containing partial details of MPs’ expenses data over the period July-Decoember 2009 (MPs’ expenses: every claim from July to December 2009): thanks to the work of Guardian [...]
The images above are from Jamie Keiles‘ blog, the ‘Seventeen Magazine Project‘ – “an attempt to spend one month living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine.” The Flickr pool is here. Wonderful idea.
UPDATE: Help Me Investigate finished second and was “Highly commended”. The winner was Scottish news site The Caledonian Mercury (well deserved). My crowdsourced investigative journalism site Help Me Investigate is up for Multimedia Publisher of the Year at the NUJ’s Regional Media Awards. Also nominated are: Jo Wood - thisiscornwall.co.uk Peter Raven - pinkun.com Stewart Kirkpatrick - Caledonian Mercury
Here’s the strange tale of Blair and More! magazine. Blair is a fashion blogger who picked up a copy of More! magazine, didn’t like what she saw, and tweeted it. More! then retweeted Blair’s critical opinions to their 11,000-plus followers – along with a couple of tweets that Blair had directed at a friend.
1. Google encrypted search In a move which could have enormous implications for online publishers, Google announced that it is experimenting with encrypted search. In plainer language, this means that – if someone is using the service – you won’t know what they have been searching for when they arrive at your website. This is great for privacy, but clearly
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