Monthly Archives: April, 2010
Drinking from Niagara Falls
A short one but The Guardian’s Kevin Anderson has an interesting piece on the “tools of the trade” for online journalists. According to Mr Anderson The internet is not like trying to drink from a firehose but rather like trying to drink from Niagara Falls. For any media professional trying to remain up to speed [...]
A Pulitzer for Waving
At the start of this month the Seattle Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of the killing of four police officers in Lakewood, Seattle. In a truly collaborative Web 2.0 ethos the award was presented not to one journalist but to the staff of the Seattle Times. The awarding [...]
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
Acer’s latest laptops have byte
In the week that the Apple Ipad finally went on sale Piers Dillon-Scott reviews the best new laptop on the market…and surprisingly it isn’t the Ipad Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, is no fan of netbook laptops. Back in January, when he introduced the Ipad, Jobs made one simple point about netbooks, “They’re slow, [...]
New Media, New Responsibilities?
Some three years after The Guardian redeveloped its website to include new media the site is still leading the way in online reporting. But this does not mean that it always get it right. In 2007 a Reuters photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was killed in Iraq after being fired upon by a U.S. helicopter gunship. The [...]