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 for BBC Future Media & Technology, says: The proposals (PDF) announced this week are about
PDF The 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 a discussion of public space in the digital age, the review talks about the “vast
The 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 out of road”. Among his key points: The internet for breaking and daily news is
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 Sussex Academic Press. The publisher describes the edited volume as: A much-needed analytical account of
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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 previews operating system”, which lacks search keywords. But click on the story page, the headline
Image via CrunchBase The BBC has made a draft of its revised editorial guidelines available online as a PDF for public consultation. This is first time the public have been consulted on the BBC guidelines, which are updated every five years. In the 190 page document includes a short paragraph on the use of material from social media services, such as Facebook or Twitter. Section 7.4.8 in the chapter on
A study of UGC at the BBC has found that audience contributions have consolidated, rather than changed, journalistic norms and practices. The study by Claire Wardle, Andrew Williams and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen was presented at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff. They found that the BBC mainly views UGC as part of its newsgathering operations, in essence as a way of obtaining photos and video, eyewitness accounts or story tipoffs.
The BBC’s business editor is an unlikely model for the journalist of the 21st century. But Robert Peston has emerged as a prime example of how journalism is practiced in a digital age. His Dunn Memorial Lecture, given at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, offers insights into how the role of the journalist is changing. In the speech, he outlined how the work of the journalist had changed, arguing
BBC Newsnight grilled Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams with questions that more often than not have a negative tone to them. Twitter was accused of creating a false sense of community, being just a service for celebrities, dehumanising its users and possibly being just a fad. The questions reveal a deep bias and misunderstanding against this new form of media from established media such as Newsnight, even though