The main commercial news broadcaster in the UK, ITV News, has jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon. It has launched a project, dubbed Uploaded, which lets people post photos or video clips ITN’s site responding to a “debate of the day” set by the broadcaster According to ITV news editor, Deborah Turness: Other TV services such as reality shows have connected with viewers but news has remained a one-way street

The Vancouver-based “citizen journalism” site, NowPublic, has attracted US$10.6m from a range of venture capital firms. According to co-founder and CEO Leonard Brody, large media companies were interested in buying up NowPublic, but the company decided to stay independent. The influx of cash can be seen as a vote of confidence in the site, coming after the demise of similar sites such as Backfence and Bayosphere. By comparison, NowPublic has

ABC’s Merry Miller interviews actress Holly Hunter about an upcoming TV show: (Via Lost Remote)

A whole bunch of new television shows have popped up on the file-sharing system BitTorrent ahead of their airing on US networks. The shows include The Sarah Connor Chonicles, Pushing Daisies, Californication, Reaper, and Chuck. Most are set to debut soon. But the leak of The Sarah Connor Chronicles is the odd one of the bunch. It is a show that is bound to appeal to fans of The Terminator,

Students heading into journalism school this autumn should get their hands on a new textbook, offered for free at the Knight Citizen News Network website. “Journalism 2.0″ by journalist Mark Briggs from the News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington, is available as a PDF download. It is next on my list to read, covering subjects such as reporting for the web, podcasting, shooting photos and video and an introduction to Web

One of the challenges facing journalism schools and small news organisations is the price of the multimedia software. Journalists now need a range of software tools to be able to work across text, images, audio and video. The costs can quickly mount up for just a few basic programs such as Photoshop, either CS or the more affordable Elements. If you are on a tight budget, there are freeware alternatives.

At a time when established TV networks are struggling to work out what their future might look like, Google has a radical idea of where TV is going. Speaking at at iTV Con, a conference about Internet TV, Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, applied the net giant’s approach to television. As we all know, television is facing an identity crisis – lots more niche channels, Youtube, DVRs. This

It has been a bad couple of days for the BBC, with its admission that several phone-in competitions were faked. The response in the press has been outrage, with headlines such as “They’re bear faced cheats” in The Sun, or The Daily Mail talking about “The shaming of the BBC“. There is no doubt that this is a serious issue and BBC producers were wrong to have deceived audiences. But

If you are in the news business, be prepared to spend, spend, spend in digital media before making any money. At least that’s the view of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. Appearing before a UK parliamentary committee into media ownership, he gave this assessment of the future: For at least ten years we are going to have to have an act of faith and pump money into digital markets without significant

Wired has given its assessment of its Assignment Zero crowdsourcing project with NewAssignment.net. The project, which launched in January, has been closely followed by many interested in developing new models of professional-amateur journalism. The verdict by Wired contributing editor Jeff Howe is that Assignment Zero had proved more valuable as an experiment in discovering the pitfalls of crowdsourcing, rather than as an exercise in journalism. In the 12 weeks the