The story of how blogging is changing journalism at the BBC is told in my research paper, The Blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at “the world’s most trusted news organisation”, published in the August edition of Journalism Practice. In the paper, I outline how blogging went from being an activity by a handful of journalists to being adopted by some of the BBC’s biggest names, such as Business Editor Robert Peston,
PDF Image via Wikipedia The proposal to take money from the BBC licence fee to partly ITV regional news services was one of the headlines of theUK government’s Digital Britain report. According to the proposal, a small part of the expected £200m digital switchover surplus would fund three ITV regional news pilots in Scotland, Wales and one English region from now until 2013. The pilots are a response to ITV’s decision
I’m very pleased to announce that my research paper for Journalism Practice on blogging at the BBC is available online. “The Blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at ‘the world’s most trusted news organisation’” has been posted online months ahead of the print edition of the journal via Taylor & Francis’ iFirst online publication system. The system “makes new knowledge available to researchers in the shortest possible time”. This tackles one of
The second panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas brought together a range of voices to discuss how journalists are engaging in the conversation online. It featured one of my former colleagues, Paul Brannan, emerging platforms editor at the BBC News website, who started off by emphasising that social media is going to be at the heart of journalism in the future. The BBC is
The deputy director of BBC News, Stephen Mitchell, discussed the proper role of blogging in the BBC with media commentator Stephen Glover on this week’s Newswatch. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.798210&w=425&h=350&fv=embedReferer%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbbc%2Beditors%2Bblog%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26embedPageUrl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Ftheeditors%2F%26domId%3Dblogs_1703%26playlist%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Femp%2F7940000%2F7948600%2F7948657.xml] Print
The BBC has started letting their video be embedded on other sites. The first few videos are available on the technology section of the BBC News website (which I set up in 2001). They include a video on Internet football fans and a report from the Bafta Video Game Awards. As Andy Dickinson comments on an embedded BBC video on his blog, “How cool is that? The BBC said there
The head of the BBC multimedia newsroom, Peter Horrocks, has ‘fessed up to messing up on Twitter. Horrocks sent out a tweet on Wednesday to his BBC colleague Richard Sambrook, talking about two senior newsroom appointments. The message had been intended as a private, direct message. But instead it went out as a reply and was visible to all, causing in Horrock’s words “a bit of a flutter in the
The BBC multimedia newsroom is going through a reshuffle, with new senior editorial appointments expected any day. The head of the newsroom, Peter Horrocks, may have unintentionally just announced those appointments on Twitter. In a tweet to Richard Sambrook, BBC director of global news, Peter said: Since the tweet was sent as a response, it would have been seen by anyone following Peter. But it is also visible to anyone
There has been plenty of discussion about the role of Twitter during the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. This poses a dilemma for established news organisations that traditionally have been the ones to break news. But as Mindy McAdams notes, “breaking news — especially disasters and attacks in the middle of a city — will be
Following on from the attacks in Mumbai, Mindy McAdams has put together a short timeline of key events that have affected the development of online news. Among these are 9/11 attacks and the July 2005 bombings in London. Her list got me thinking about two key events in 1997 that had a big impact on the evolution of the web as an accepted platform for news. I was with the