This post forms part of the Carnival of Journalism, whose theme this month is universities’ roles in their local community. In traditional journalism the concept of community is a broad one, typically used when the speaker really means ‘audience’, or ‘market’. In a networked age, however, a community is an asset: it is a much more significant source of information
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Last month the first submissions by students on the MA in Online Journalism landed on my desk. I had set two assignments. The first was a standard portfolio of online journalism work as part of an ongoing, live news project. But the second was explicitly branded ‘Experimental Portfolio‘ – you can see the brief here. I wanted students to have a
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Today is Twitter Cartoon Day 2 – or, for brevity’s sake: Twoonday. The idea is simple: cheer up the Twittersphere by changing your avatar (picture) to a cartoon character. Last year was fun, but this year there are more of us on Twitter, and more things we can do. There’s a Flickr group where you can submit your screengrabs, and @AlexGamela
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Alex Gamela talks to Dave Cohn, founder of the non-profit, crowdfunding journalism project Spot.us, winner of a Knight News Challenge grant, and a suggested new model for the news business. On the eve of launching the Spot.us official website, Dave told OJB how he is putting his ideas into practice, and his views on the current state of journalism. Four months after
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been turning the Online Journalism Blog into a group blog. For our first project we have taken Jo Geary’s news interactivity index, and applied it Europe-wide, creating an ‘interactivity index’ of newspapers across European countries – at the moment: the UK, Spain, Portugal, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland… Not just that, but we’ve
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I’ve been painfully aware of my (and many people’s) ignorance of blogs written in languages other than English. I’m aware of some – Andre Deak in Brazil; Philip Couve in France; Alex Gamela in Portugal (who writes every post in English too); Nico Luchsinger in Switzerland; Beppe Grillo in Italy (also in English); and Adam Javurek in the Czech Republic
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Alex Gamela talks to António Granado, editor of the online edition of Público, a reference newspaper in Portugal, as they relaunch their website. Público have always been ahead as far as online presence is concerned, and recently the newsroom created a video team, as well as launching a redesigned website. In this short interview, we tried to ask a very
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