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In: BBC|internet|journalism
27 Aug 2010This visualisation of Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart speech highlights the most commonly used two words. The visualisation shows Thompson placing an emphasis on British television, public service, British public and licence fee.
Einar Thorsen of Bournemouth University, UK, was one of the final presenters at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. He looked at how the relationship between BBC online journalism and ctizenship during the 2005 and 2010 UK General Elections. In a quick presentation, Thorsen explained how civic engagement as a key of the BBC mandate reflected in [...]
In: BBC|internet|journalism|media
5 Mar 2010Using IBM’s ManyEyes, I did a word tag visualisation of the BBC Strategy Review (PDF), to reveal the most commonly used pair of words. The most common by far was “licence fee” mentioned 116 times. Next was “public space” with 60 mentions and “public service” at 47. As for the two digital stations facing closure, [...]
Image via Wikipedia The BBC has sought to address the discussion over whether it is still committed to digital. In a direct response to the column by Forrester’s Nick Thomas on whether the BBC still believes in digital, Kerstin Mogull, says the simple answer is “yes.” On the BBC Internet blog, Mogull, Chief Operating Officer [...]
In: BBC|blogs|journalism
3 Mar 2010The BBC strategic review (PDF) of its services has been widely covered in the media, with much of the focus on the scrapping of 6 Music and cuts to BBC Online. Buried in the document is a phrase that is reminiscent of how big media used to talk about the Internet a decade ago. In [...]
In: BBC|journalism|media|video
24 Feb 2010The outgoing director of the BBC’s global news division, Richard Sambrook, looked back at a career in journalism spanning 30 years in a conversation at the Frontline Club with Vin Ray, of the BBC College of Journalism. Sambrook is leaving the BBC to join PR company Edelman as “there’s not another job for me. I’ve run [...]
Part of my research has involved studying the adoption of blogging at the BBC. One of the areas I studied was blogs as a platform for greater accountability in news. The results of that research are in a chapter in the book, Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship?, which has just been published by [...]
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17 Dec 2009Public Service Media in the Digital Age Tags: digital (Via Sacred Facts)
The BBC has made changes to its news website to make its headlines more SEO friendly. The headlines appearing on index pages are short and concise as usual, but clicking through to the story reveals a longer headline with search keywords. For example, the index headline on the story on Google’s Chrome browser is “Google [...]
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