The failed attempt by the Chinese government to stop the online distribution of video and photos of student demonstration in Rulan shows the power of a networked world. The blog Global Voices has a good write-up of the events surrounding the alleged suicide of a young teacher and the subsequent protests over the suspected police cover-up. Students filmed the protest and police reaction on their cellphones and posted clips to

An interesting read on the Online Journalism Review entitled Web journalist, know thyself. It is by Jonathan Morgan, a web producer for the New York Times who is taking his first steps into web publishing. He writes: “About nine months ago, I decided to free myself from the shackles of submission editors and paper-based journalism and join the legions of writers who publish online. “I am convinced that systems to

Another newspaper is moving towards an integrated newsroom, this time in The Netherlands. The process the de Volkskrant, one of Holland’s leading daily quality newspapers started about a year ago and in an interview with journalism.co.uk publisher Pieter Kok explains how it is going. I particularly like the way he describes the paper, turning the traditional definition on its head: “I like to think of us as an online newspaper

The fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks dominated the front pages of newspapers on Monday. The design of many of these showed how effectively the newspaper format can be used to tell a story. Some of the front pages from around the world can be seen on the blog of a consultancy called the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. The designs range from the traditional to the bold and dramatic,

How about this for a different approach in story-telling. Slate is running a graphic adaptation of the 9/11 report produced by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. The graphic novel takes the 9/11 Commission Report and sets it to images. The result is striking but it does make me feel slightly uneasy. Is this an effective way of making the 9/11 report accessible to a wider audience or does is it

Some of you may have heard of Chris Anderson and his book The Long Tail. In a lengthy interview with the Press Gazette, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine talks about where journalism is heading. He explains how the way people are getting their news is changing and why he believes media organisations should offer their content for free online. But as the editor of a print product, he talks about

In the UK, one of the leading broadsheets, The Telegraph, has revealed its plans to bring together its editorial operations. As the veteran UK journalist Roy Greenslade wrote in his blog: “So the paper renowned for its conservative politics is about to take the most revolutionary step in its history, more sweeping than the initial introduction of computer technology, more radical than its creation of the first newspaper website (in