[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, video journalism.] How have I missed this before? The Guardian have been featuring a chart of viral news videos since November, with weekly commentary by Jemima Kiss. Well worth bookmarking.
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. As if proof were needed of the need for online journalism skills in today’s jobs market, HoldTheFrontPage reports that:
“Every journalist working on a Northcliffe newspaper is to be trained to update its accompanying website, putting stories online themselves and learning how to “add value” to articles.
“The group says fully integrated multi-media newsrooms will soon be in operation across its titles, with all of its 1,500 journalists writing for both print and online.”
What’s particularly notable here is the fact that “Sub-editors are also able to rewrite headlines for online stories.” The punny, cryptic headlines that work in print are not always suitable for search engine-optimised, scannable online consumption – but is this what they mean?
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging]. If you want to listen to the BBC’s Head of Interactivity Vicky Taylor, best-selling blogger Tom Reynolds and Trinity Mirror’s Head of Multimedia Michael Hill, you’d better get a move on: booking closes tomorrow for the Citizen Journalism 2007 conference in Birmingham on January 26.
You can book online at MediaSkills.org’s page on the Citizen Journalism conference which will take place next Friday (January 26).
Hope to see you there.
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
[Keyword: journalism, online journalism]. OK, this is getting eerie. Or perhaps my presentation at the AJE conference in Huddersfield on Friday just happens to take in too many things, but also on my list of Things To Talk About is the vague term of ‘social media’. Hey presto, Jemima Kiss writes a thorough piece on the subject at CommentUnlimited following a forum held by the Association of Online Publishers:
“Daniels outlined CNET’s move towards what Tim O’Reilly (the Web 2.0 guy) described as architected participation. She said CNET’s core mission was to interpret and filter content and that that will remain the same, but that the public have different expectations about the media they use and expect to be able to find and use their voice to participate in the community around it.
“Daniels said: “It may not necessarily be that many people but what they say is incredibly valuable. We want to enable those thought-leading people to engage with the site and give them a platform equal with our editorial team. And if we can get our thought leaders to contribute, the lurkers will benefit more.”
“Daniels was referring to CNET’s new-ish “My CNET” type feature, where users can set up their own profile page, add comments to stories, write their own blog and so on. The most frequent contributors can even get their byline on the front page – which CNET’s own journalists can’t.”
I could go on quoting, but you may as well read the article…
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, wikis]. More perfect timing – as I prepare to talk about using wikis in teaching online journalism, The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond posts on how vandalism is the biggest threat to wikis’ widespread adoption (it’s a response to Bambi Francisco’s post ‘Why media will embrace wikis‘). He promises to write more tomorrow.
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
[Keyword: journalism, online journalism. Martin Stabe may well be able to add curriculum design to his CV after his latest post, which bemoans the fact that journalism students still seem to be unaware that the ‘print-only hack’ is not a viable career option any more. “Teach some new heroes,” suggests:
“You know, the people out there doing impressive stuff with new technologies right now. The war reporters traveling the world doing solo multimedia reporting; the investigative reporters using sophisticated software to take on the CIA, the laid-off print hacks going it alone to build successful online publications, the people bringing software development skills into journalism.
“Need a recent journalism film to dislodge Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford? Try Shattered Glass — a story where the fraudulent titular hack is found out by an online journalist. The hero there is Adam Penenberg, then of Forbes.com. A key part of the story is Penenberg’s scepticism about the phoney website the technologically-unsophisticated Glass had set up to disguise his made-up stories for the New Republic, er, magazine.”
I’ll certainly be passing on these examples in my Online Journalism module this coming semester, as well as suggesting that we communicate these career options during Induction Week (the first week of a student’s university course).
And as I happen to be speaking at the Association of Journalism Educators conference this Friday on a very similar subject, the timing of Stabe’s post couldn’t be better. Bring on the new breed of journalists!
PS: Mindy McAdams once had some similar thoughts at her blog.
PPS: Looks like this is a hot topic, with Andrew-Grant Adamson posting on the same topic here.
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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media
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