WordPress has come a long way in a short time to become the content management system of choice for many. I use it to power this blog and for a range of student publications at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. This infographic illustrates the power of the platform: The Power of WordPress by Tech King Print
PDF I’ve just heard that Reportr.net has won a Best Blog award at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in Toronto. It is an honour to be recognised as among the best in online media in Canada. I would like to thank the judges, drawn from highly respected industry professionals and experts from Canada and the U.S., for the recognition. Two other projects that I supervised at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism
One of the afternoon sessions at the New Journalism, New Ethics? conference at UW Madison was called What Ever Happened to Verification in Journalism? This was a wide-ranging discussion so this entry only captures snapshots of the debate. Speaking first, Kristin Czubkowski, blogger, Laptop City Hall , and government reporter, The Capital Times, questioned whether verification had gone away. But at the same time, she cited an example when she retweeted
The keynote speaker at the New Journalism, New Ethics? conference at UW Madison was Jon Sawyer, director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. “As we create new financial and editorial models of journalism, we are also collectively creating the ethical ground rules for these forms of journalism,” he said Sawyer talked about how the Center had used the internet to amplify the journalist’s voice, to extend the reach of
Back to the blog after presenting my paper with Amanda Ash in the wiki project at CBC Radio 3. In a session at International Symposium on Online Journalism on blogs and UGC, Joshua A. Braun of Cornell University outlined how broadcasters in the US were adopting blogs. This is an area close to my heart, as I have published research in how the BBC adopted blogging for accountability. Braun look
The press watchdog in the UK has ruled that journalistic blogs have to meet the same standards as content appearing in print. The Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against a 92-word blog post by Rod Liddle published on The Spectator’s website. In the entry, Liddle claimed that “the overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by
On Friday, I gave a presentation to science and health researchers at UBC about blogging. The purpose was to discuss how blogs could help them share their research and engage with others interested in the same areas. Among the examples I cited as different approaches to blogging were Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science, BBC environment correspondent Richard Black’s Earthwatch, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, and the Neuroethics at the Core group
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
It’s time to wrap up 2009 with a look at what you have been reading on Reportr.net. Here are the 10 most popular posts of the past 12 months. 31 essential online tools for journalist FoJ09 talk: Twitter as a system of ambient journalism How to find out anything about anyone online Twitter CEO sees journalists as curators Social networking sites challenge journalist 10 top tech trends that every journalist
This list of top 50 journalism blogs offers a good starting point for tapping into current trends in the media. It includes: Blogs that focus on citizen, or grassroot, journalism, personal blogs from professional reporters, journalism school-supported blogs, blogs on a new media focus, organizational blogs and self-professed bipartisan resource blogs that provide primary resources for investigative writing. There is a broad cross-section, from Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog to