[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. I’ve just discovered this very useful page on Journalism.org – it’s aimed at American journalists but still plenty of use to those outside. Links include:

Reporting
	Covering Politics Capturing People’s Voices Making Stories More Accurate Maintaining Your Independence Using Numbers Watchdog Reporting
Writing
	On Writing Well Making Stories Fairer and Less Biased
Living in the Newsroom
	Achieving True Diversity Communicating in the Newsroom Managing Your Time Mentoring and Training
Ethics and Issues
	Ethics Codes Covering the News in Wartime The Ways of the Web

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. More good stuff at the OJR (can you tell I’m catching up on my email?), including a refreshingly cynical piece on citizen journalism (“despite all the recent hum and chuff about Web 2.0, there has been surprisingly little progress in “journalism 2.0.””). Here’s a quote to whet your appetite:

“Of all the startups entering the news marketplace in the last year, I’ve only seen one that could be a viable platform for online journalism.

Newsvine is a Seattle-based company started by former Disney and ESPN staffers. Their site newsvine.com launched an invitation-only preview beta in January. The site publishes news feeds from the Associated Press and ESPN, and then gives users the ability to comment on those stories, publish their own stories, write their own blog, and vote which articles should receive the most attention. (You can find a detailed overview of the site’s features on solutionwatch.com.)”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. On the subject of teaching journalism (see post below), the OJR has a lengthy report on a Poynter seminar on ‘convergence journalism’:

“Questions and concerns expressed at the seminar covered a lot of ground, but they fell into identifiable categories that raised issues with specific implications for how we teach journalism. Here are the main concerns, many of them new revelations about convergence, with discussion points that were raised, and at least guidance, if not answers, suggested as paths that educators could pursue:”

His list is worth reading in detail but here’s the headlines:

1. Online video is not TV news.
2. New tools, new possibilities
3. Trust the audience
4. Audio directions
5. The basics still matter
6. The 24-hour news cycle requires greater creativity and depth

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. I’m currently undertaking a survey of online journalism educators, so if you teach online journalism in the UK – whether as a whole module or a single class – please take a minute to visit http://www.paulbradshaw.co.uk/survey/.

If you’re interested in finding out more, email me at paul.bradshaw@uce.ac.uk

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Excellent roundup of the criticism by journalism.co.uk:

“The National Union of Journalists‘ code of practice for citizen journalists is being dutifully and systematically dissected by high profile web journalists, variously labelling it ‘braindead’, ‘impractical’ and a ‘bloody awful mess’.

“A barrage of criticism came from Emily Bell, Simon Waldman and Jeff Jarvis at Guardian Unlimited and assistant editor Neil McIntosh gave the code a particularly brutal fisking on his blog, here and here.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. That’s what I really think the motivation is behind the increasing move in regional news towards web broadcasting – as reported recently on Journalism.co.uk:

“Regional newspaper publisher Archant is the latest organisation to trial video bulletins, adding four-minute news reports to its Eastern Daily Press (EDP)
website.
“…People expect more and more from information websites and want deeper,
richer media – video and audio content,” he told journalism.co.uk.”We think that
short-form bulletins of four or five minutes will appeal to a number of people
who look at the site every day.”
“Video bulletins have been running internally for three weeks and were
introduced to the EDP site last week. They have been cheap and simple to do,
said Mr Davies, produced by existing staff with broadcast skills and using the
£300 desktop editing programme Visual
Communicator.
“The current bulletins are studio-based reports but footage could be
gathered by Archant’s local news reporters in the field. Mr Davies said it is
too early to predict how video content or advertising might be developed
throughout the network but response to the four-month trial will be monitored.
“Archant will also be watching the outcome of the ITV Local pilot, which provides
local video news reports, video classifieds and users’ footage for Brighton and
Hastings, and the BBC
Local TV project. The BBC’s project is based in six regions in the West
Midlands.
“…Felixstowe
TV covers part of an area in Suffolk served by two Archant titles; the Eastern Daily Press and tabloid Evening Star.In a
population of 25,000, Felixstowe TV claims to have built an impressive audience
of around 32,000 unique users each month. As much as 15 per cent of traffic is
generated by ex-pats and visitors spend as much as two hours on the site.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. A brief posting at Poynter points towards a report on comments by Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at the World Economic Forum. “The Web is no longer “ancillary” to the future of the New York Times,” reports Poynter; “it’s now “core” and has more readers than the print edition, according to Sulzberger [who] said the print edition still generates substantially more revenue than online.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. A brief posting at Poynter points towards a report on comments by Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at the World Economic Forum. “The Web is no longer “ancillary” to the future of the New York Times,” reports Poynter; “it’s now “core” and has more readers than the print edition, according to Sulzberger [who] said the print edition still generates substantially more revenue than online.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. I’ve spoken about Interactive Narratives website before – but here’s their latest mailing in case you need convincing to sign up…

“9 sites have been added to the Interactive Narratives site entries. You can find the list on Interactive Narratives. The new entries include:

Return to Space
[Edge, The (Sun-Sentinel)]
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadband/theedge/sfl-edge-n-shuttlertl,0,2503528.flash
The launch of Discovery marks NASA’s first shuttle flight since the loss of Columbia in February 2003. NASA’s engineers have made numerous changes suggested by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in a final year report released in August 2003.

Destripamos Un iPod
[El Pais]
http://www.ep3.es/index.html?obj_id=154
A look at how the iPod works and includes an inside look.

Descripcion de la tecnologia
[El Pais]
http://www.elpais.es/fotogalerias/popup_animacion.html?xref=20050602elpepunet_1
La Cadena Ser incorpora esta nueva tecnologia que permite a los oyentes de la cadena descargar de forma automatica sus programas favoritos de radio en el ordenador y escucharlos en su reproductor MP3.

Last Mysteries of the Titanic
[Discovery Online]
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/titanic/technology/technology.html
Take a virtual dive for a behind-the-scenes look at the technology involved. Explorers have studied and picked over the wreck of the Titanic for the past two decades. Now, the smallest-ever remotely operated vehicles bring lights and cameras to reveal entire rooms of the ship that haven’t been seen in almost a century. What those cameras find will be seen instantly – here on the Web and on televisions across the United States – in a live broadcast.

Del Comic Al Cine
[El Pais]
http://www.ep3.es/index.html?obj_id=265
A look at the top 11 super hero comic book characters.

Goya in San Antonio de la Florida
[El Mundo]
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/graficos/jun/s1/ermita/ermita.html
Tras 16 anos de restauracion en tres fases diferentes, los frescos que pinto Goya en 1798 has sido presentados al publico. Madrid recupera uno de sus tesoros mas importantes de su patrimonio historico-aristico.

Selected letters by Eric Rudolph
[USA Today]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/rudolph_letters/flash.htm
Patricia Rudolph believed her son Eric, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, was incapable of the four bombings he was accused of committing between 1996 and 1998. But on April 13, he pleaded guilty to bombings at the Atlanta Summer Olympics, two abortion clinics and a gay nightclub.

Girando Con Ojos De Brujo
[El Pais]
http://www.ep3.es/index.html?obj_id=748
La branda mas mestiza presenta un DVD en directo

Aerogeneradores
[El Pais]
http://www.elpais.es/fotogalerias/popup_animacion.html?ed=diario&xref=20051118elpepusoc_1&d_date=20051118
La energia eolica se ha convertido en una de las energies renovables mas utilizadas. Las empresas espenolas ocupan los primeros puestos en produccion de estas tecnologias.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Great analysis and suggestions for changing local newspapers in the new media lanscape (ignore the American-specific references) from Jeff Jarvis