Monthly Archives: December 2007

Online Journalism Atlas: online journalism in Brazil

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In the first part of the Online Journalism Atlas, Gabriela Zago looks at online journalism in Brazil. Got any information about your own country’s online journalism? Add it here.

Online journalism in Brazil has grown a lot in the last few years, especially in the last 12 months. Many websites have changed their models recently, going from a traditional style to a more “web 2.0” concept. The community participation and the use of new tools are growing since then. Blogs are a constant. Continue reading →

Introducing the ‘Online Journalism Atlas’

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We’re a blinkered bunch. Most of what I see in online journalism blogs tends to be about what’s happening in America, or the UK. What about the non-English speaking world? And, er, Canada? So here’s my attempt to address that: an online journalism atlas.

It’s a wiki (naturally) so that you can add information about your own country, or edit an existing entry. The structure is up to you too – if you want to write about local newspaper websites, great. Broadcasters? Fine. The blogosphere? Wonderful.

I know this blog has readers in dozens of countries, so I want to extend this invitation to you all: I’ve done enough talking – I, and I’m sure other readers, would be very very interested in what the state of play is in your neck of the woods. Broaden our minds. Correct the Anglo-American bias. Oh, and tell us what’s happening in Canada.

All contributions, however small, are more than welcomed. And I’ll be publishing excerpts on the OJB. Thanks,

Paul

Review: Instant Journalist

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In the first of a series of reviews of journalism enterprise launches, Nicolas Kayser-Bril takes a look at
Instant Journalist.

instant JournalismNo image rotation. And that’s only one of the bugs.

  • What do they say it is? “Instant Journalist gives you the power to easily create and manage an online community of citizen journalists. If you have the desire to give people in your community a voice, whether you are an individual or a large corporation, Instant Journalist will fit your needs.”  Continue reading →

Do you need a licence to be a journalist?

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In Portugal you do. A Portuguese journalist has written with the following information as a prelude to a question:

“In Portugal there is a comission that grants journalistic licences of all sorts: for freelancers, collaborators, full time journalists. This licence puts its owner under a special condition before the law and finance.

“To get one of those licences I need my employer to declare I’m working for them; then I need two licensed journalists to sign a term of responsibility on my behalf; I need also a supervisor inside the company I’m working at to follow my work during a training period; this training period is variable, and the minimum is one year of “evaluation” for those who – like me – have a degree in Journalism.”

So here’s the question:

  • In which countries does a journalist need a licence?
  • Who and how grants it?
  • Is it really needed?
  • And why?

I would love to know your own experiences.

Two years of archive uploaded

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While I was fiddling around with my WordPress backend (no sniggering at the back) I decided to import all the posts from the two years this blog spent on Blogger (Oct 04-Jan 07).

So, if you really want to know why the James and the Blue Cat blog was so significant, what I thought magazines would look like in 2016, and why FHM was an online innovator, feel free to browse away (10 points for every correct answer).

Note: In Blogger, headlines could be links to sites – but on WordPress these seem to have been converted to internal links to the post itself, so apologies for articles without those links. Also, it’s messed up my categories, so will have to spend some time housekeeping…