Blogs have become part of the furniture of online news sites, with many journalists enthusiastically taking up blogging as part of their daily routine. The CMRC study on news habits and social media just released shows that a minority of Canadians, 21 per cent, say they read or follow particular journalists online, through blogs or social networks. But the figure doubles to 43 per cent for students. As part of the research team, I
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The list of winners in the 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Awards has been posted online, with the Toronto Star and CBC News each taking home three awards in the news division. The Toronto Star won for best overall companion website, best video and best cross-platform initiative. CBC News won for best overall online-only site, best community feature and best blog. The French news site Cyberpresse took best website design and
In April 2009, the well respected New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked the founders of Twitter: “Did you know you were designing a toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls?” Her dismissive approach towards the micro-blogging service captures the attitude of many journalists to Twitter. This negative reaction to a new communication technology is nothing new, say researchers From San Diego State University. In a paper just published by
Putting the words Twitter and journalism into the same sentence seems to provoke a spasm from professional journalists. At a “curated unconference” hosted by Reuters Thomson in London, the value of Twitter in journalism was once again under scrutiny. The report in The Guardian suggests there was a deep-seated level of unease in talking about Twitter as journalism. The head of the BBC’s global news division, Richard Sambrook, argued: Twitter
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
As Barack Obama was taking the oath of office, the White House website received a radical makeover, notably with the launch of the White House Blog. In an introductory entry, timed 12.01 EST, Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House, wrote: Millions of Americans have powered President Obama’s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping our
Image via Wikipedia There’s somewhat of a contradiction in the latest posting on the BBC’s Editors Blog by Helen Boaden, director of BBC News. Introducing the post, she writes: This week I gave the keynote speech at the e-Democracy conference. You can read what I said below. I would be interested to know what you think. The speech gives an overview of the BBC’s approach to citizen journalism. But even
The team behind a contest for student bloggers dropped me an e-mail, announcing the launch of their third annual blogging scholarship. The scheme offers students who blog the chance to win a $10,000 scholarship. The contest has just started accepting submissions, but you only have until the end of the month to apply. While this is a laudable effort at providing an imaginative way to fund your way through college,
In this guest post, my friend Jason Tanz, senior editor at Wired, explains the reasons behind the magazine’s experiment in journalistic “radical transparency” around an article on Charlie Kaufman: Every journalist has probably had that feeling – you’ve got a pile of material, a recorder full of interviews, you’ve been studying and speaking with subjects who have been gracious enough to let you into their lives – and now you
Robert Scoble streamed his keynote at last week’s Online News Association annual conference in DC live via a mobile phone. It was a powerful demonstration of the new tools of communication he talked about. [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118/220081&embedId=49229411] Print