Bob Eggington on BBC online | Media | The Guardian “BBC Online needs a new content strategy. If there is an existing content strategy, it is impossible to discern it. The current offering is a massive, rambling construction – with hundreds of separate sites of hugely varying quality.” (tags: BBC technology internet)

Image via WikipediaNBC has a strange idea of broadcast journalism for the 21st century. It has joined the New York Film Academyto launch a programme to “train the next generation of journalists who will be prepared to navigate the evolving landscape of digital journalism”. The aim is to meet “the pressing demand for skilled, can-do digital journalists on network television, cable, and the Internet”. These are noble intentions, but the

Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme: …on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home movies and the like so that we can become the BBC’s version of Animals

Image via WikipediaTorstar, owner of Canada’s largest-circulation daily The Toronto Star, is cutting 160 positions in a restructuring of its newspaper division. Among the job losses are all 10 of the firm’s Internet production staff. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada has questioned this decision, with official Maureen Dawson saying: Their message to the world is that they’re all dedicated to the Internet, but then they lay off

Misinformed quote of the day from Dan Brown, online editor at The London Free Press in Canada: When I graduated from journalism school in 1996, no one knew what a blog was. Heck, we still haven’t decided if blogs are journalism Silly me, I thought we had resolved this debate and the fruitless argument of bloggers vs journalists. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or

The BBC has upgraded its blogging software to be better able to handle the thousands of comments it receives on its array of official blogs, as BBC News blogs editor Giles Wilson explains: It’s often been frustrating to leave comments (and also frustrating to publish them) because of slow response times. Part of the problem was that we were asking too much of our software. So we thank those of

Image by cubicgarden via FlickrThe news that the head of the BBC’s Internet operations, Ashley Highfield, is stepping down has prompted much speculation about his successor. Highfield is is leaving to launch an on-demand video service for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 known as Project Kangaroo. The race is now on for one of the most coveted new media jobs in Britain, overseeing a budget of £400 miliion and

Erik Huggers tipped to replace Ashley Highfield at BBC | Media | guardian.co.uk “Richard Deverell, the current controller of BBC Children’s is another likely internal candidate along with Nic Newman, the controller of journalism in the future media and technology department.” (tags: BBC internet journalism) On the other side: ethics and toning When too much Photoshop alters the meaning of a photo (tags: ethics photography) Journalism.co.uk :: How to: use

Poynter Online – Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth’s memo to staff I am taking this opportunity to move washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post closer to a true Washington Post Media organization – rather than a newspaper company and an Internet company (tags: newspapers journalism internet)

Learn the basics of audio editing with Audacity, thanks to this slideshow by my friend Duncan McHugh, multimedia developer at the LFS Learning Centre at