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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 [...]
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, [...]
In: blogs|internet|journalism|media
29 Mar 2010The 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 [...]
In: blogs|journalism|media
29 Mar 2010On 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Day two of the Online News Association kicked off with a keynote by Lisa Stone of Blogher, a network of blogs that reaches more than 15 million women a month. This is the first ONA she has been able to attend, even though she grew up wanting to work for newspapers. She describes her career [...]
In: blogs|internet|journalism
10 Sep 2009Maria Grafstrom and Karolina Windell of Uppsala University in Sweden analysed how business journalists were using blogs. Presenting at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, they found that the number of business articles that talked about blogs. By 2006, more than 1,000 articles about blogs from none in 2002. More than 20% cited a [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.