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About OJB

What?

The Online Journalism Blog publishes comment and analysis on developments in online journalism and online news, data journalismcitizen journalism, blogging, vlogging, podcasts, interactive storytelling, publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, User Generated Content, searching, online communities, mobile phone journalism, social media and all things internet. It tends to go through phases based on the current interests and activities of the contributors.

Where?

There is an Online Journalism Blog Facebook Group containing discussion forums and other tools.

Who?

The blog is published by Paul Bradshaw (UK) and written by Paul, Matt Wardman (UK), Malcolm Coles (UK), Yessi Bello (UK) and Tony Hirst (UK). Previous contributors have included Mary Hamilton (UK) Karthika Muthukumaraswamy (US), Paul Canning (UK), Steen Steensen (Norway), Alex Lockwood (UK), Nicolas Kayser-Bril (UK and France), Alex Gamela (Portugal), Nico Luchsinger (Switzerland), Wilbert Baan (Netherlands), Sothisischristmas (UK), Pramit Singh (India), and Dorien Aerts (Belgium), as well as a team of ‘virtual interns‘. We’re always looking for contributors, so if you want to join the team let us know.

Paul BradshawPaul is a visiting professor at City University, London and part time Course Leader for the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University. His background is in magazine editing and editorial website management and he has contributed to several books about the internet and journalism. This explanation of how he uses this blog and other social media is spot on.

In 2009 Paul founded Help Me Investigate – a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism. The site was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year in the 2010 NUJ Regional Media Awards, and won Best Investigation at the Talk About Local awards 2010.

For the rest of his time Paul works as a consultant and trainer with media organisations in the UK and internationally, speaking widely. If you are doing something interesting, and would like me to be involved, let him know.

How?

Please do not make comments on the blog that are defamatory, discriminatory or prejudiced, or generally nasty. We reserve the right to remove comments that fit those categories, but very rarely do.

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55 Responses to “About OJB”

  1. NIshikant Khajuria says:

    Sir, I am a Kashmir (India administered) based journalist with a professional experience of ten years.
    I want to contribute news items from here to the news agencies, magazines, papers or news portals. Kindly guide me in this regard.
    Awaiting for your reply.

  2. Arnaud Hulstaert says:

    I’m a student in information and communcation science (at Bruxelles – Belgium – I hope my english is’nt too bad) and I study the online information system useb by the journalists and the quality of these systems. To make this study, I need information from journalists and It’s rather difficult to obtain. Is it possible for me to contact you by email to ask you some questions ? My objectives are to improve those systems and therefor I need advices from journalists.
    Thank you

  3. paulbradshaw says:

    Thanks Arnaud – I’m conducting similar research myself so happy to get in touch. My contact details are on http://www.mediacourses.com/staff_teaching.asp

  4. Ken Liu says:

    Paul:

    I read the post on wiki journalism with great interest since we have a wiki publishing platform for online media that is targeted at building communities. Iwould like to get your help in contacting the people you surveyed. Our launch customer is the San Diego Union Tribune and afew other publications are looking into it, with inetersting applications on kids sports, global warming, schools etc. Perhaps you are interested in helping us gain entry into the UK market?

  5. paulbradshaw says:

    I’d love to find out more about what you’re doing with San Diego, please contact me on paul.bradshaw (at) uce (dot) ac (dot) uk

  6. Hi there

    I’ve just launched a bit of a crazy website idea and just wanted a bit of advice.

    I’m not even sure if you’re the right person I should be asking and actually I’m hoping I’m not being cocky by asking you this but do you think my site would make a good story.

    Kind Regards
    Wasim

  7. Fiaz Sami says:

    I’ve launched a website that is centered around people raising questions to newsmakers in response to news items on the web. People can relate news articles to questions to support the validity of a given question. The main idea is to collaboratively raise the tough questions journalists would normally not use in an interview or a press conference.

    I wanted to know what your thoughts were about such a concept and what impact it may have on citizen journalism.

  8. [...] la base de la presentación que hizo Paul Bradshaw sobre como promover un negocio a través de las Redes Sociales se propone la estrategia a seguir, [...]

  9. Sandra Browne says:

    We are looking to hire recent journalism graduates for full time positions in a startup South Florida newspaper. Would you have any leads or suggestions how we can find applicants?

  10. [...] open-source, jornalismo digital, Mídia No post anterior, comentei sobre o paper do professor Paul Bradshaw sobre o sistema wiki na atividade [...]

  11. [...] (autoria coletiva) na produção de material jornalístico. O trabalho foi feito pelo professor  Paul Bradshaw, da Universidade de Birmingham, e apresentado esta semana na conferência O Futuro dos Jornais, em [...]

  12. ian says:

    this site is very useful for my journalism class. i would just like to know something about video diary as a form of journalism. Is it related to online journalism? what are the pecularities or styles used in here?

  13. My view is that video diaries can be used very effectively within journalism – either by the journalist themselves reflecting on a story or issue; or by a source giving an insight into an issue – almost as you would use a quote within text. See http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/four-types-of-online-video-journalism/ for more.

  14. Caroline says:

    Hey there,

    This is Caroline from SocialRank.

    I am trying to get in touch with you but couldn’t find your email address.

    We will index your blog posts as part of our content filter. I’d like to send you an invite to a beta preview of our new Web 2.0 site.

    Can you get back to me with your email address.

    Mine is caroline@journalismdaily.com

    Kind regards,

    Caroline

    http://www.SocialRank.com

  15. Media Wales says:

    Paul. Just come across your blog and really impressed. We’ve just started a blog focussing on the media in Wales (mainly news media) and while it’s in its early days we hope it’ll evolve into a mature blog for debate and discussion by both the media professionals and media customers. Would really appreciate your comments.

  16. [...] en la conferencia sobre el futuro de la prensa, celebrada en Cardiff a mediados de septiembre. Paul Bradshaw hace un certero resumen en su [...]

  17. [...] Paul Bradshaw, a UK blogger who is applying for a Knight News Challenge grant, has come up with a useful set of questions and tools for journalists to use when following up on news stories. As we have discussed in classes, we should conceptualize stories as on-going threads and extended conversations, as opposed to one-shot wonders. Bradshaw wants to experiment with creating tools that would enable journalists to expand the temporal and practical reach of news stories: [...]

  18. [...] bloggen Online Journalism Blog av Paul Bradshaw finns en modell som beskriver hur tidningar kan planera nyhetsflödet mellan [...]

  19. [...] iniziativa è stata realizzata da Paul Bradshaw, coordinatore dell’ OnlineJournalismBlog, insieme con Nico Luchsinger (Germania) e Nicolas [...]

  20. [...] equipo de Online Journalism Blog se muestra optimista respecto al futuro del periodismo; cree que nunca se han dado circunstancias [...]

  21. [...] Paul Bradshaw, on E-Media Tidbits, focuses on Lowrey and Latta’s chapter about blogging production routines, and points out that the trend they detect -the more influential bloggers become, the more their routines resemble journalism- is “dissapointing”, because he would have liked bloggers to be more innovative. “This is one of the few studies I’ve seen that examines the work practices of bloggers (…) We need more research like this”, underlines Bradshaw. [...]

  22. [...] E. Martin verweißt auf einen Beitrag von Paul Bradshaw (OJB), der beleuchtet, wie Anzeigen-Verkäufer den Journalismus – zumindest zum Teil – retten können. [...]

  23. [...] gira estuvo precedida de un contacto con Paul Bradshaw, quien cuenta en Online Journalism Blog algunos pormenores de esa visita y explica que de sus [...]

  24. [...] ello tiene que ver con el dominio de nuevas formas narrativas. Darcy cita al periodista británico Paul Bradshaw quien sostiene que la forma de escritura tiene que ver con las necesidades de los usuarios. “Las [...]

  25. [...] the list, republished in all its daftness: 1. Rory Cellan-Jones 2. Darren Waters 3. Iain Dale 4. Paul Bradshaw 5. Erik Huggers 6. Tom Coates 7. Ewan McIntosh 8. Stephen Fry 9. Nick Robinson 10. Neil McIntosh [...]

  26. [...] the list, republished in all its daftness: 1. Rory Cellan-Jones 2. Darren Waters 3. Iain Dale 4. Paul Bradshaw 5. Erik Huggers 6. Tom Coates 7. Ewan McIntosh 8. Stephen Fry 9. Nick Robinson 10. Neil McIntosh [...]

  27. [...] are doing and post their thoughts in 140 characters or less. For more, here is a presentation from Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog: Twitter for beginners  View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. [...]

  28. [...] how New Media is changing every day, it’s a great site.  It’s written by a guy named Paul Bradshaw and a team of contributors.  It’s easy to read, entertaining, and informative.  Much like [...]

  29. [...] equipo de Online Journalism Blog se muestra optimista respecto al futuro del periodismo; cree que nunca se han dado circunstancias [...]

  30. [...] Paul Bradshaw, who’s idea this project was, has more on his blog, and talks about how the site is an example of a potential model for Slow Journalism, as well as providing a potential model for how investigative journalism could look in the future as newspaper revenues fall and fewer local and regional papers are able to do this kind of low-level investigation any more. [...]

  31. [...] Bradshaw, “apparently the UK’s 4th most visible person online”, according to his profile on OJB, for which he writes (oops, sorry, blogs) is the latest to offer his unsolicited [...]

  32. [...] just re-found a post by Paul Bradshaw that I should have blogged about way [...]

  33. [...] how. I did include a few tips at the end from a few professors I interviewed, including those from Paul Bradshaw, the course director of the M.A. in Online Journalism program at Birmingham City University in the [...]

  34. [...] Paul Bradshaw, an instructor in the U.K. and creator of the must-read Online Journalism Blog, has put together a handy guide to principles of multimedia journalism—with especially good tips for building blogs. [...]

  35. [...] formação e emprego Paul Bradshaw, diretor do curso de jornalismo da Birmingham City University, no Reino Unido, escreveu uma [...]

  36. [...] maybe news organizations aren’t cut out to dive into social capital. Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism program at Birmingham City University, said in 2010 [...]

  37. [...] maybe news organizations aren’t cut out to dive into social capital. Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism program at Birmingham City University, said in 2010 [...]

  38. [...] maybe news organizations aren’t cut out to dive into social capital. Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism program at Birmingham City University, said in 2010 [...]

  39. [...] maybe news organizations aren’t cut out to dive into social capital. Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism program at Birmingham City University, said in 2010 [...]

  40. [...] When I talk about “online journalism” I’ll be specifically referring to production, and nothing else. There is a lot of stuff that you could include with “online journalism”: just look at all the topics covered by Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog. [...]

  41. Teodora Tsulina says:

    Hello,

    I went through your blog and I would say that found it impressive. I’m a second year student of European Studies at the University of Malmo/Sweden. Naturally, from Bulgaria/Sofia.Currently, I am doing my year as an exchange student at the University of Seville/Spain (for the first term) and at the University of Granada/Spain (second term). I would like to contribute to your work in this blog. Honestly, I have no experience in the shpere of journalism and publishing, besides one month training at one of the Bulgarian national newspapers. However, I would be extremely happy having the chance to improve my skills and deepen my knowledge. Although, I have not experience, I think that my work, help, colaboration could be useful for the following reasons: I have plenty of contacts with people from different parts of Europe, taking into account my background. Also, I am originally from Bulgaria (an Eastern European country) where concepts like ‘media pluralism’, ‘investigative journalism’ or ‘freedom of speach’ are relatively new. In the future, I would like to dedicate myself at improving the level of journalism in Bulgaria, especially the points, emphasized in Article 19. Therefore,my work for this blog, will inevitably contribute to my personal develpment.

    If you anyway decide that I could be useful for the developing of the blog contact me.
    E-mail:teodora_zulina@abv.bg

    Cincerely,

    Teodora Tsulina

  42. [...] er “the new elephant in the online newsroom”, hedder det i artiklen. Paul Bradshaw, underviser på journalistik-linien på Birmingham University, citeres for at sige, at Facebooks [...]

  43. this site is very useful for my journalism class. i would just like to know something about video diary as a form of journalism.

  44. Tom Smith says:

    Hi Paul,

    this looks great! Well done… I’m attempting a similar approach of trying to provide a collection of tools for data exploration (it’s not ready yet) at the University of York ( http://pppeoplepppowered.blogspot.com/ ).

    The idea is to try and find connections between people (using social media, google searches and web site data) and then add those connections, however spurious as a starting point for a social media tool… Something to nosey around and explore…

    Keep up the good work, it’s a great idea…

    Tom

  45. [...] um conjunto de 114 feeds RSS sobre data journalism, compilados por Paul Bradshaw (alguns deles não são necessariamente sobre o tema, apenas relacionados com [...]

  46. [...] Paul Bradshaw a la darrera Jornada 10 en comunicació de la Fundació ESCACC la frase que m’ha cridat [...]

  47. [...] altra manera i connectar amb gent gairebé en temps real. Vaig entrevistar al periodista anglès Paul Bradshaw fa uns dies, després de la seva presentació al cicle de conferències 10 encomunicació, que [...]

  48. [...] is great news for journalists. Earlier this year journalism lecturer Paul Bradfield alerted me to Audioboo’s potential as an everyday tool. Until then, I had thought of it more [...]

  49. [...] bloggers appear not to feel the need to safeguard themselves with a disclaimer etc.. and some, like Online Journalism Blog, keep it simple: “Please do not make comments on the blog that are defamatory, discriminatory or [...]

  50. [...] profesor Paul Bradshaw, que explica estos cambios con más detalle en Poynter Online, subraya la necesidad de un cambio [...]

  51. [...] data kuantitatif kepada khalayak luas. Di sisi lain, berkat kemampuan wartawan-wartawan yang menekuni statistik dan dunia internet jurnalisme data mulai memasuki media massa. Kehadiran wartawan yang akrab [...]

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