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 path as “accidental,” where due to personal circumstances she ended up at WebTV and Women.com.
PDF Maria 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 blog as a source. But when journalists were asked if they used blogs, 63% said
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,
This blog is among a comprehensive list of the 100 best blogs for journalism students. The list covers everything from general blogs on journalism such as PoynterOnline to those by educators such as Mindy McAdams to blogs by journalists such as Matthew Ingram. One site absent from the list is the UK-based Journalism.co.uk. It has created its own list blogs and sites also missing from the list which it considers
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
With the start of the new semester, I haven’t had enough time to post to this blog so apologies to all. The first couple of weeks of a new term are always a hectic time. It is also time for my students to take up blogging as part of the core Integrated Journalism course at the University of British Columbia. I have written a piece for PBS Mediashift on why
As 2008 draws to a close and a near year begins, I would like to thank all of you who read this blog for your time and support. Here are the top 10 stories on Reportr.net for 2008. It is an eclectic mix, dominated by the Spitzer scandal: How to follow the US election results online The mystery of Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s MySpace page The rights and wrongs of Ashley
A study by the Bivings Group on newspapers and the Internet in the US shows how cautiously legacy media are approaching the web. The study (PDF) quantified the online features of the top 100 newspapers in the USA in 2008. Some features, such as blogs and RSS feeds are commonplace. But there is less uptake of features such as social networking or user-generated content, or let alone reinventing themselves online.
An end of year list by NowPublic.com shows how far user-generated content played a role in the big news events of the year. According to its CEO, Len Brody: 2008 not only proved the concept of user-generated news, but also tipped the scales. The pillars of mainstream media, including the Associated Press, BBC, CBS and CNN have all made significant efforts to embrace the new model. Top of the list
One of my research interests is blogs at the BBC, so I was fascinated by the tweets coming from Paul Bradshaw and Dan Bennett on the session on blogging at the internal Future of Journalism conference organised by the BBC’s College of Journalism. Bradshaw outlined the BBC blogs rules: authenticity, single author, impartiality, comments, commitment and obeying the rules of the blogosphere. By all accounts, the star of the session