Nov 11, 2008
November 11th, 2008 by paulbradshaw
Nov 11, 2008
November 11th, 2008 by Dorien
- Dan Gillmor @BlogBoat, picture by lvb.net
At the Blogboat event in Belgium citizen journalism expert Dan Gillmor spoke about a new book dealing with principles for news consumers, writes Dorien Aerts. [Read more]
Nov 7, 2008
November 7th, 2008 by paulbradshaw
Last year I had surprising success with the Knight News Challenge, making the final shortlist of 29 before the winners were announced.
This year I’m at it again, with Help Me Investigate.com - a platform for ‘open source investigative journalism’, to be actively piloted in Birmingham, UK, but usable by anyone in the world. You can vote for it here, and read more about it.
Once you’ve done that, any ideas, useful articles or funds you could suggest would be very much welcomed.
Nov 4, 2008
November 4th, 2008 by paulbradshaw
Elections bring out the best in online journalism. News organisations have plenty of time to plan, there’s a global audience up for grabs, and the material lends itself to interactive treatment (voter opinions; candidates’ stances on various issues; statistics and databases; constant updates; personalisation).
Not only that, but the electorate is using the internet for election news more than any other medium apart from television (and here are some reasons why).
PaidContent has a good roundup of various UK editors’ views, and decides blogs, Twitter and data are the themes (more specifically, liveblogging and mapping). [Read more]
Oct 24, 2008
October 24th, 2008 by nicolaskb
France is currently paralyzed by yet another strike. Unlike the ones you’re used to when visiting my country, usually from railway or airport staff, this one was launched by lawyers and judges alike, united against their government minister, Rachida Dati (read more here).
Traditional journalists have been covering the event as it unfolded. Google News brings you more than 300 bland and unsurprising articles.
The only place where you can read what’s going on in France’s judicial system is a blog. Maître Eolas, a lawyer who opened his blog 4 years ago, just published 64 testimonies from justice professionals. He even renamed his blog ‘Daily news from angry justice professionals’. [Read more]
Oct 9, 2008
October 9th, 2008 by paulbradshaw
A few months ago I had a call from someone representing new citizen journalism startup AllVoices. “Oh great,” I thought. “Yet another cit-journo outfit scouting for student journalists to populate their pages with free content.”
The (cold) caller didn’t inspire me with confidence. They clearly knew nothing of me or the course; they spoke of content being ‘visible to the world’ - as if blogs hadn’t been invented. And the site made me spit feathers: “The first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere,” it boasted - the biggest piece of bullshit I’ve seen all year. [Read more]
Sep 3, 2008
September 3rd, 2008 by paulbradshaw
There’s a great interview with NPR’s Andy Carvin over at Poynter where he talks about their coverage of Hurricane Gustav. It’s a classic example of what I’ve previously called ‘Distributed Journalism’, and a lesson for any news organisation in how news production has changed: [Read more]
Jun 23, 2008
June 23rd, 2008 by aaa
I’ve said for a long time that news organisations need to have a distribution strategy for the web as much as they have one for offline. Well now the Daily Mail’s rise to the top of the ABCe charts is causing some to ask whether they have just such a strategy, albeit a rather clumsy one. Andy at Canofpop.com goes as far as to suggest:
“I reckon some of their global traffic is down in part to the spamming of popular social news portals. [Read more]
Jun 17, 2008
June 17th, 2008 by Alexandre Gamela
“This book is my manifesto for the media as a journalist but also as a citizen of the world. As a journalist you are constantly being told that the news media have enormous power to shape society and events, to change lives and history. So why are we so careless as a society about the future of journalism itself ?” [1]
This is how Charlie Beckett presents his book “SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), in which he tackles the main challenges to journalistic practice in our days, and its influence to maintain free and democratic societies .
Charlie Beckett is a journalist with a 20 yearscareer at the BBC and ITN, and he is also the founding Director of POLIS, a think tank about journalism and society at the London School of Economics. “SuperMedia” is a work that gathers and structures several streams of thought about the future of Journalism as a essential service to contemporary societies, and how the changes in the news industry, beyond inevitable, are necessary.
Alex Gamela posed a few questions to Charlie Beckett about his book (Portuguese version available here). [Read more]
May 17, 2008
May 17th, 2008 by paulbradshaw
I’ve decided to respond to student questions now via video. The latest collection are from Jess Barlow, and are copied below. The video responses are split into three videos - and there is a transcription of the responses at the end:
- Which online tools and resources do you use to keep up to date with breaking news stories, and why do you use these?
- Do you keep a personal Blog and if so how regularly do you update it, and why?
- How important is Blogging to you personally, and in your opinion for online news production?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0xBMd2ogk] [Read more]
Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenblum
