As the conspiracy theories flew around last Friday, one in particular caught fire: the idea that the News Of The World might have been closed down because it would then allow for its assets – i.e. incriminating evidence – to be destroyed. Perhaps because it was published under the Reuters brand (although the byline abrogated them of any responsibility for
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…And the feeling is mutual. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
Reuters has been among the leading news organizations in its use of Internet technology, both in its forays into citizen participation in the developed and developing worlds, and in experimenting with audio visual tools to offer fine narrative journalism. Following the success of its online documentary on the Iraq war last year, Bearing Witness, Reuters recently produced another interactive multimedia
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This week the UK government released a report into social mobility. While mainstream reporting focused mainly on the broad picture, I wanted to read the original government report itself. Which publishers linked to it? The Telegraph: fail. Not one of the 4 articles I could find linked to the report. The Times: fail. Alan Milburn’s own piece about the report fails
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This was published as a guest post on Shane Richmond’s Daily Telegraph Technology blog: Media organisations are still barely getting their heads around social media. They look at a conversation and see ‘vox pops’; they look at a community and see a market. They ask for ‘Your pictures’ and then complain when they get 1000 images of a mild snowfall.
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