Category Archives: Editorial
Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism
TecCrunch blogger Sarah Lacy asks an interesting question in her latest blog “Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now?” It’s not that I’m pessimistic about the future for good journalists. Quite the opposite, in fact. Journalism isn’t dying; it’s just in a period of extreme volatility. And in any time of volatility, [...]
AP Pro SEO
The Associated Press announced last week that student journalists should use Search Engine Optimisation style over AP’s style when publishing online. On the face of it this is sound advice, journalists need to understand how to create content that can be properly indexed by Google – why produce content that cannot be found.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Health and Online Safety
Apparently the HSE is a fan, looking over my stats this morning it seems a member of the executive was having a look around one of my sites. There is nothing unusual in this, but I would have thought that the national health service would be using better equipment than IE6 . Ok, so the [...]
Haiti 360
The web runs on memes- memes (‘cultural units of knowledge’) are at the very heart of Web 2.0. The ‘Green Revolution’ in Iran last year ran on meme’s; users in Iran generated content that was retweeted and reported, emailed and IMed to followers and friends. There is a Reithian value to internet meme’s. In the [...]
I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This
The New York Times today outlined it’s plans to charge readers for access to it’s articles online. According to the paper the Times will opt for a metered system allowing users to read a set amount of content for free before they are asked to subscribe. This does not sound like a good idea to [...]
Freedom of Tweets
“There is no news tonight” reported the BBC one April evening in 1930. History repeated itself in 2009 when the Guardian told its readers of a story it couldn’t report. In what the editor of the Guardian described as “a fantastic own goal” the oil trading company Trafigura managed to obtain a so-called “super injunction” [...]
RTÉ’s Dilemma With DAB
The Irish Times ran a very interesting report by Jason Walsh last week concerning DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) Radio in Ireland. In the article Walsh discussed the slow launch of DAB and the challenge of choosing the correct DAB formats. Walsh perfectly summarises the challenge broadcasters face when choosing between higher audio quality and fewer [...]
No, Teens Don’t Tweet but it doesn’t mean they’re not involved.
Neilsen Wire, the media and marketing information company, set the twitosphere alight this week when it announced that Twitter, despite is impressive growth, has failed to attract Teens. The Neilsen survey of 250,000 Internet users in the States showed that only 16% of under 25 year olds actively use the Twitter website; with the majority [...]
