The citizen journalism beat has a new kid on the block in the shape of VancouverIAM. As you might have guessed from the name, it is a citmedia site about Vancouver, based in Vancouver. The site describes itself as: The destination for people who want to know what’s going on in Vancouver. It gives you the tools and support to become a video journalist, internet TV and film producer and

Image by gak via FlickrFans of the cancelled CBC show, Jpod, are planning to emulate the antics of fans across the border to save their beloved programme. A Facebook group has been set up to coordinate a mail-in blitz to CBC in support of Jpod on May 19th. The campaigners are suggested fans send in a little Lego man or woman in honour of the book’s cover and Douglas Coupland‘s

Image via WikipediaThis is something that I have addressed before, but it is too important to ignore – the issue of repurposing content for the web. The BBC has taken its first steps towards integrating its news departments, with TV and radio now working in a common newsroom. The online team will join them in June. As BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks admits, most journalists will continue to work

Image via WikipediaThe BBC‘s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy. In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer. So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a Freedom of Information request. As far as I can tell, this is the first

This is slightly off-topic, but might have some relevance to explain the slow development of online journalism in Canada. E-commerce is on the rise in Canada, according to the latest official figures from Statistics Canada. Internet sales hit an estimated $62.7 billion in 2007, up 26% from 2006. But e-commerce is still to make an impact in Canada, representing a relatively small fraction of total economic activity. Stats Canada reports

Journalism.co.uk :: How to: master Twitter, if you’re a journalist Valuable tips from Paul Bradshaw (tags: blogging internet journalism reference resources training)

In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network. The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service broadcasting because it was about encouraging people to get involved rather than sitting back and watching politics happen. In a farewell note, the

MediaShift . D.I.Y. Nation::Cheap Editing Tools a Boon for Media Makers | PBS Everything you need as a budding digital journalist (tags: journalism media online tools multimedia) The Internet? What channel is that on? – mathewingram.com/media How to annoy fans of Gossip Girl (tags: internet online) 37signals Blog: [Case Study] Chi-Town Daily News uses Highrise to manage newsroom Using an online contact database in journalism (tags: collaboration innovation internet journalism)

Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals. (Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy)

Some big changes are under way at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia where I am on faculty. The director of the school, Stephen J.A. Ward, is leaving for the U.S. to be the first James E. Burgess Chair and Professor in Journalism Ethics, and director of a new Center for Journalism Ethics, at the the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The announcement from the Dean of