Online Journalism Blog

About OJB

What?

The Online Journalism Blog publishes comment and analysis on developments in online journalism and online news, citizen journalism, blogging, vlogging, photoblogging, podcasts, interactive storytelling, publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, User Generated Content, searching, online communities, mobile phone journalism, social media and all things internet.

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, Malcolm Coles (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 Bradshaw is a Reader in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University where he leads the MA in Online Journalism. His background is in magazine editing and editorial website management. He has contributed to several books about the internet and journalism, and is currently writing a book on online journalism. This explanation of how he uses this blog and other social media is spot on.

Paul is also the founder of Help Me Investigate – a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism – and he works as a consultant with a number of media organisations. If you are doing something interesting, and would like him to be involved, let him know.

The OJB logo was designed by Adam Stewart, at the time a first year student on the BA (Hons) Media and Communication (Web and New Media).



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Comments

  1.    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.

    Posted March 22, 2007, 11:04 am
  2.    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

    Posted July 5, 2007, 9:11 am
  3.    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

    Posted July 6, 2007, 9:24 am
  4.    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?

    Posted July 6, 2007, 7:19 pm
  5.    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

    Posted July 9, 2007, 12:31 pm
  6.    6 Wasim Mohammed says:

    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

    Posted July 16, 2007, 6:40 pm
  7.    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.

    Posted August 6, 2007, 5:08 pm
  8.    8 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?

    Posted August 15, 2007, 7:00 pm
  9.    9 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?

    Posted September 14, 2007, 10:32 am
  10.    10 Paul Bradshaw says:

    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.

    Posted September 17, 2007, 8:50 am
  11.    11 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

    Posted September 18, 2007, 8:01 am
  12.    12 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.

    Posted September 20, 2007, 11:06 am
  13.    13 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

    Posted January 17, 2010, 7:03 pm
  14.    14 Leuchtstoffroeren 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.

    Posted June 22, 2010, 9:12 am
  15.    15 Tom Smith (subscribed to comments) 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

    Posted July 22, 2010, 9:17 am

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