[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

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Indian Online Journalism reports that “UNESCO has published a handbook for journalists of developing countries on the use of Internet for journalistic purposes. The handbook has been published in collaboration with the Thomson Foundation and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association …
http://www.newswatch.in/index.php?itemid=3135 “

[Keyword: onlinejournalism] “The answer to ‘Is citizen journalism a threat or an opportunity to journalism’ is… ‘yes'” was the summing up soundbite from Dan Gillmor, author of OJ bible We The Media (available on Creative Commons download here) at the end of the Journalism Leaders Forum in Preston last night.

The forum promised some luminaries of the online journalism field including the Head of BBC Interactive, Pete Clifton; Cath Hearne, editor of BBC London’s nightly news programme; and Mike Ward, author of Journalism Online.

There was some particularly constructive debate on a number of issues, particularly the responses to the NUJ’s recently issued code of conduct (Word doc) for citizen journalists (or “witness contributors” as John Fray, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, preferred to call them). And poor Gillmor had to rake over his recent decision to stop spending money on his citizen journalism venture, Bayosphere.

I’m sure you’ll find the forum reported in full at Journalism.co.uk, whose Jemima Kiss had been present since midday. You can also view the Webcast by logging in as a guest at http://breeze01.uclan.ac.uk/r81768061/.

Credit goes to Francois Nel at UCL for organising the event, and keeping the discussion rolling to time. There’ll be another forum in May, so contact Francois if you want to attend.

PS: if you’re interested in the issues debated you might also be interested in a similar debate held on the Guardian’s Organ Grinder blog, and an article on citizen journalism pioneer OhMyNews on who owns the rights to citizen journalists’ work (the answer: most of the time, not you).

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on the publication of the book Print and online newspapers in Europe. A comparative analysis in 16 countries. “This study has become the most comprehensive work on the online and print press in Europe.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Another helpful piece at Poynter, this time about using online social networking sites to help research stories. Here’s a lengthy but insightful quote-within-a-quote:

“Ryan Blitstein, a staff writer at SF Weekly and former Columbia Journalism student … shows you why reporters should learn more about such sites (he calls them “a goldmine for sources”).

Social networking Web sites are the bane of my existence. Almost every day, I receive an e-mail alerting me that someone I barely knew in high school wants to connect via Friendster. As annoying as these sites are, though, they’re a goldmine for sources, especially among teens and young adults.

Friendster, MySpace, and Tribe are a 21st-century version of a little black book, calendar, photo album, diary, and telephone rolled into one. Everybody’s information is public and, better yet, searchable, if you know where to look. Recently, I needed to find sources that fit a specific profile: Asian Americans who graduated from a certain San Francisco high school during the last few years. I focused on MySpace, the music-centered site that has become the online equivalent of the suburban mall for teenagers and college students. (If you don’t know the difference between the sites, ask the youngest person in your office.) I registered, creating a simple MySpace profile (Ryan, Journalist, San Francisco). Then, under the Search option, I chose users who went to the school, narrowing the list to recent graduates. Several dozen profiles remained, many of which listed “Asian” under ethnicity. Sites also let you search by occupation, location, even last name.

Social network reporting isn’t without drawbacks, logistically and ethically. Many site users, despite what their profiles say, are under 18, so use the same caution you would when reporting on high school kids. Be aware that most people don’t expect their profiles to be read by anyone other than their friends, much less to be cold-e-mailed by a journalist. Some of those I contacted responded as if someone had stolen and read their private diary. It’s also a good idea, if you already have a profile, to create a new one for reporting -� after all, you don’t want sources discovering any of your private information.

I use LinkedIn.com, a site that is used in business contexts rather than “I want to meet new people” contexts. In my next column, I will describe how I use it for my reporting, for journalist friends looking for sources and for non-journalists looking to connect for business purposes.”

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Fascinating results reported by Poynter: “When reading news online, men follow a zigzag pattern while women tend to cross the page vertically (see illustrations).”