Category Archives: media
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.
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 [...]
Irish Government asked Google to remove data
The Irish Government has made about 10 requests for the removal of data from Google and YouTube servers according to details released by the search giant. In an update to the company’s own website Google detailed the number of requests it has received from governments for the removal of information from data stored on its [...]
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 [...]
Iceland Volcanic Ash [Live Article]
just noticed the car is covered in a fine black dust #ashtag #iceland 3:42 PM Reactions from across Europe to the Iceland volcano, via BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/cSI6uw #ashtag 1:33 PM Will the Iceland Volcano Change the Climate? | LiveScience http://su.pr/2sKuRQ 1:17 PM Apparently John Cleese is stuck in Norway, poor guy #iceland #ashtag http://nyti.ms/9bFDVY (video [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
