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 is an initial assessment of what has happened to date. One of the challenges for

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 that podcasts were most popular among people in their thirties and in their fifties. In

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, as I have published research in how the BBC adopted blogging for accountability. Braun look

I’m very pleased to announce that UBC Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a $15,000 grant to work with CBC Radio 3 to research and develop a Canadian music wiki website. The aim is to create a “Wikipedia” of Canadian music that will enable Canadians to share their passion and enthusiasm for music, collaborating together to create a rich, online resource. I’m excited to be supervising the partnership, with

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 the site particularly irked local member stations, who did not want competition from video. Video

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, to follow breaking news, to comment on our work and share it, and easier to

The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy

National Public Radio is one of the media success stories of the past year, with audiences at an all-time high. Interest in the presidential election helped boost audiences to a record 21 million listeners per week, an increase of 9%. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller says the rise is part of a long-term steady trend up, and NPR being described as the most successful hybrid of old and new media. Schiller

Image via Wikipedia An internal briefing note by CBC President Hubert Lacroix on the broadcaster’s financial crisis provides some insights into its future. The note aims to answer some of the questions raised by CBC staff following the announcement of sweeping job and programming cuts. One area that was spared was CBC.ca as it is part of CBC’s digital strategy heading forward and its transformation from a broadcaster into a