The following post was originally published by Gary Herman on the NUJ New Media blog. It’s reproduced here with permission. Here at Newmedia Towers we are being swamped by events which at long last are demonstrating that the internet is really rather relevant to the whole debate about media ethics and privacy. So this is by way of a short
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The NUJ’s New Ways to Make Journalism Pay conference on Saturday brought together a group of journalists and entrepreneurs who are making money through online journalism in the UK. Many of the speakers had toiled to build brands online, and those that had were now running sustainable businesses. If the future of journalism is entrepreneurial, then these speakers are evidence of
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Could 2008 be the year geotagging breaks through? Archant are the ones to watch in the UK with (delayed) plans to geotag all their stories. I asked Suffolk’s Web Editor James Goffin to write a piece for the OJB on his experience with the process – and the opportunities it’s opening up. Journalists have always asked the question “Where?”. People are interested in
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55 pages summed up in ten images. Not bad.
If you want to know what I think in more depth, read Neil McIntosh’s summary. I’ve taken over his mind to save myself typing. Tomorrow he’ll wake up feeling woozy and wondering why The Guardian have decided to launch a site devoted to Bolton Wanderers. Meanwhile, here’s some more highlighterphotoblogging: More from Martin Stabe.
The NUJ has published its findings. My first reactions via the medium of highlighter pen… For more information see coverage at Press Gazette and The Guardian. The full document is here.
With the NUJ accepting its first full time blogger member (well done), The NUJ New Media mailing list (how retro) has been debating the acceptance of a second, at the end of which come Jemima Kiss and that original blogger, Engadget’s Conrad Quilty Harper, like a quality double act to head the bill. Kiss asked Conrad (or should that be
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Dear Roy, For someone who believes in the merits of the web conversation, your decision to leave the NUJ strikes me as strange. You say you “cannot, in conscience, go on supporting this crucial plank of NUJ policy when it is so obvious that online media outlets will require fewer staff. We are surely moving towards a situation in which
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Arrested for someone else’s comments?
Kent police appear to have arrested a man in connection with comments made on alternative news service Indymedia – despite neither making the comments nor administering them.
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