Category Archives: Journalism
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, [...]
11th International Symposium on Online Journalism
This weekend marks the 11th annual Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. In a nod to the times Multimedia Journalism students from UT Austin’s School of Journalism are live blogging the event throughout the weekend. As the Symposium is still going here are some of the most interesting points raised.
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.
Anti-Social Graph
Speaking at the F8 conference yesterday Mark Zuckerberg a very simple programming API that will have a profound impact on the consumption of online news. One of the many criticisms of online news is its lack of serendipity. The argument is simple but important, in newspapers of old (the ones on paper) editors had control [...]
Corporations + New Media ≠ Journalism?
Not only does web journalism allow professional and citizen journalists to become mass communicators it also corporations to reach the masses. Google, as you would expect, is particularly adapt at using new media to tell stories online. While this blurres the line between PR and journalism Google’s use of new media demonstrates just how an [...]
Live Articles/Dead Weight?
Fashionably late to the party March 18th saw the launch of CNN’s “This Just In” news blog site. Responding to the recent trend for ‘real-time‘ content mainstream media organisations have been developing such news blog sites to report breaking and rolling news stories as “live articles/blogs”. With a mix of informal language, citizen journalist as [...]
Social Media on the Rise in Newsrooms
The social media blog Mashable posted a very interesting blog about the use of social media in TV newsrooms. Some 77% of TV newsrooms have a Twitter account while 36% us it “constantly.” Only 13% say they do not use social media at all. Papper: Radio News Does not Make Use of Social Media from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
