Category Archives: News
Architecture of Participation
In proper Web 2.0 style DCU Journalism student and fellow tweeter (as well as fellow BCFE alumnus) @cianginty is compiling a great list of Irish student journalists and media who tweet. I wont steal his links by quoting his text but I will just mention the two Twitter lists he has created here (of Journalists) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stranded in Dublin
Delays and cancellations are to be expected when travelling but when the volcanic ash cloud grounded much of Europe’s air traffic, many travellers were left struggling to find alternative methods of transport. In this audio interview Ms Grant, who suffers from diabetes, tells us of her frantic search to secure enough insulin to last her [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
