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Here are the most popular five posts during December on Reportr.net: Creating a student journalism website on a tight budget BBCNews.com readers criticise ’stuck on’ ads BBC explains thinking behind new Web 2.0 homepage How to find out anything about anyone online The internet and social change in the Middle East Thanks for your support [...]
This is probably the best ever song about a news site, Digg, and likely the envy of mainstream news outlets: [youtube XLLRsn_nr6s] According to TechCrunch, Kina Grannis, the girl behind the online hit “Digg Song” (video above) has been approached by a record company interested in discussing a record deal. Technorati Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Site [...]
The way The Vancouver Sun covered a recent survey on the news habits of Canadians is revealing. The poll conducted by IDC Canada for the Information Technology Association of Canada concluded that the “imminent death of traditional media has been greatly exaggerated”, stressing that “despite our fascination and reliance on digital content, 95 percent of [...]
Apparently you only need to go to high school to read this blog, at least according to The Blog Readability Test.. It works out the level of education is required to understand a blog. The test also works on just about any website. To grasp the contents of the new website of the UBC School [...]
In: innovation
26 Dec 2007Former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte on his One Laptop Per Child concept: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.446202&w=425&h=350&fv=swfHome%3Deplayer.clipsyndicate.com%26va_id%3D477608%26wpid%3D%26cpt%3D] from www.clipsyndicate.co posted with vodpod
Is it worth doing a master’s degree in journalism? Apparently, it is worth it, at least financially: As Mindy McAdams notes in a post on the job outlook for journalism graduates: New U.S. graduates with a bachelor’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $30,000, according to a survey of [...]
In: BBC|television|video
23 Dec 2007News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way. In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in TV news [...]
Canadian newspaper execs are slightly more upbeat than their US counterparts about the ad revenues in the coming year. A report by Toronto-based Kubas Consultants found that “”Canadian newspapers, however, may be the exception, due to their distinctly optimistic outlook on ad revenues. The economy may be better north of the border, but not that [...]
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