Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
Looking beyond the hype that normally accompanies news from Apple, the new iPhone 4 has the potential to put a multimedia production suite into the hands of journalists. One of the most significant improvements is the 5 megapixel camera, with the ability to shoot video in 720P HD. The more powerful A4 processor and the [...]
The CBC has released an interim report (PDF) into its news content across television, radio and online. CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said the News Balance Report “adds to a considerable body of research we use to ensure our journalism continues its leading role in establishing and performing to best industry practices.” Among the areas [...]
The final presentation at ISOJ looked at a key issue in journalism: the digital transformation of legacy organisations. The study (PDF) into three-year project into how NPR is changing from a broadcast network to a multimedia company was outlined by Patricia Riley, University of Southern California. They are two years into this project, so this [...]
A paper presented at ISOJ by Monica Chadha, Alex Avila, Homero Gil de Zuñiga, University of Texas at Austin sought to answer: Who listens to podcasts?And are they engaged with politics? Quite rightly, they defined a podcast as an audio programme that you subscribe to, rather than audio downloaded from the net. The study found [...]
Since I didn’t blog about this, here are the slides of the presentation at the ISOJ by Matt Thompson, editorial product manager, Project Argo, National Public Radio. Thompson talked about the need to shift from reporting the news to reporting understanding. ISOJ presentation 4.24: From news to understanding View more presentations from Matthew Thompson.
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, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Buried at the end of the recent New York Times report on the relaunch of NPR’s website is an intriguing comment about video. While the new site gives more prominence to text versions of stories, visitors are unlikely to find much video: An experiment a year ago of adding more video to [...]
This video preview of the redesigned NPR.org website looks promising. The top-level navigation has been simplified and there is an impressive use of interactive graphics. NPR says the new site “will be brighter, lighter, faster, easier to use, easier to search and more fun to surf:” It will be easier to combine listening and reading, [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.