Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
In: BBC|internet|journalism
27 Aug 2010This visualisation of Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart speech highlights the most commonly used two words. The visualisation shows Thompson placing an emphasis on British television, public service, British public and licence fee.
In: innovation|interactive journalism|internet|journalism|online
10 Aug 2010Google has hired two of the leading researchers in visualization. In an understated post entitled That was fast!, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg announced that they had joined Google. Viégas and Wattenberg led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking collaborative visualization platform Many Eyes. They left and set up Flowing Media a few months ago. But [...]
In: academics|education|internet|journalism|science journalism
10 Aug 2010My essay on how the internet is changing science journalism has been published as part of a collection called Science and the Media by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The volume includes contributions from leading science journalists such as Alan Alda, Cristine Russell and Cornelia Dean, edited by Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholser. The editors write: [...]
In: CBC|Canada|Twitter|journalism
6 Aug 2010The surprise news that the head of CBC English services, Richard Stursberg, was leaving his post dominated Twitter in Canada on Friday. Within hours of the official announcement, Richard Stursberg was the top trending topic in the country. The news of the immediate change at the top of CBC provoked more of a discussion on [...]
At the AEJMC conference, Richard Karpel, executive director of the ASNE, provided an assessment of the state of the newspaper industry in the US. He said the US had 1,400 daily newspapers. In 2009, the industry had lost 5,200 jobs, about 11% of full time jobs. This compares to 5,900 job losses in 2008 Now [...]
The state of the media in the US was the focus of one of the panels at the AEJMC annual conference. Bob Papper of Hofstra University reported on the state of TV news in the US from a survey of local TV stations. His message was that things aren’t as bad as they seem. TV news [...]
John Russial of the University of Oregon posed a provocative question at the AEJMC annual conference. In a research paper, he and co-author Arthur Santana studied whether the industry wants every journalist to have cross-platform skills. In a survey of 210 US newspapers, he found that different members of the newsrooms rated skills differently. Russial argued [...]
During a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on rebooting journalism education, Rich Beckman from the University of Miami in Florida highlighted one of the big issues in journalism schools. Beckman spoke about the need to have faculty with the skills, knowledge and experience to teach new and emerging forms of digital journalism. He argued that re-educating [...]
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