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

The BBC has started letting their video be embedded on other sites.  The first few videos are available on the technology section of the BBC News website (which I set up in 2001). They include a video on Internet football fans and a report from the Bafta Video Game Awards. As Andy Dickinson comments on an embedded BBC video on his blog, “How cool is that? The BBC said there

We run a visiting professor scheme at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and the deadline for applications is fast approaching. The aim of the scheme is to bring in professional journalists who are interested in coming to Vancouver to work with the students and teach a course in their area of specialty.  From the school website: The incumbent is expected to reside in Vancouver for the 3 1/2-month period

There has been plenty of discussion about the role of Twitter during the Mumbai attacks. The stream of tweets were seen by some as evidence that Twitter is where news is breaking. This poses a dilemma for established news organisations that traditionally have been the ones to break news.  But as Mindy McAdams notes, “breaking news — especially disasters and attacks in the middle of a city — will be

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

What a difference four years make in the life of a presidential election. As the New York Times has noted, this campaign has been fought, dissected and shared on forms of media that were merely a twinkle in 2004. On election day, there are an overwhelming number of ways to tap into the pulse of voters. Chrys Wu has put together a comprehensive list of sites to follow the results,

Image by garyturner via Flickr Comments by a senior BBC News executive at the Media Society event, ‘Broadsheet vs Broadband’ in London offer an insight into how the corporation views user-generated content. Pete Clifton, who has the unwieldy title of head of editorial development for multimedia journalism explained how UGC fit into the BBC’s newsgathering: It’s gathering in insights that the audience have that we can make sense of and

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The headlines about the BBC this week have been all about Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, and those prank phone calls. Google News has almost 6,000 news articles on the story. So far the outcry has resulted in the resignations of Brand and Radio 2 boss Lesley Douglas, and a three month suspension for Ross. Much of the media coverage has focused of the

The BBC’s User Experience & Design team is sharing its findings into how people are consuming media. But rather than publish a long report, it offers a visual representation in this infographic: The aim of the project was to understand how people are using media. Among the things that emerged was that a lot of people feel overwhelmed at the amount of choice there is and how  people mixed and

Edie Rubinowitz of Northeastern Illinois University provided a fascinating insight into Chicago Public Radio’s community radio project, :Vocalo, at the Convergence and Society conference. And yes, it is supposed to be “:Vocalo”, as Rubinowitz explained at the start of the talk.  The colon is a deliberate attempt to create an emoticon. :Vocalo is its own distinct radio station which downplays its relationship with Chicago Public Radio (CPR).  Rubinowitz explained that