Category Archives: New Media
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 [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
