Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
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16 Mar 2010MediaShift Idea Lab . 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use 'Linked Data' | PBS The argument for linked data – publishing information so that it can easily and automatically, and be linked to other, similar data on the web. (tags: journalism data media news) New media ventures blossom in Seattle How Seattle has become [...]
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12 Mar 20103 Tools to Analyze the Sentiment of Your Brand Social Mentions | Search Engine Journal New ways to get a sense of the public conversation on Twitter. (tags: Twitter, journalism, media, social media) Teaching Online Journalism » 21 examples of Flash journalism A great roundup of the many uses of interactives to bring stories to [...]
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17 Feb 2010Harnessing the journalistic power of social media and networks – The Future of News A thoughtful post on best journalism practices in social media. (tags: journalism socialmedia community twitter facebook) Leeds | guardian.co.uk The Guardian's hyperlocal Leeds experiment A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. – By Vaughan Bell – [...]
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19 Jan 2010The Twitter mob rules, OK? | Sunny Hundal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Why journalists complain about online 'mobs' stifling free speech. (tags: Twitter, journalism, media, online, comment) Caterina.net: Participatory media and why I love it (and must defend it) Eloquent post on the value and appeal of participatory media. (tags: participatory media. journalism, [...]
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15 Dec 200916 social media guidelines used by real companies | Blog | Econsultancy Some real world social media policies and guidelines as used by companies such as the BBC. (tags: media web socialmedia tips business web2.0 communication guidelines 2.0) Journalism.co.uk :: NCTJ to pilot multimedia qualification across UK centres A new preliminary NCTJ multimedia qualification is [...]
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7 Dec 2009Google’s Personalized Results: The “New Normal” That Deserves Extraordinary Attention Danny Sullivan on why the personalisation of Google search results is a big deal. (tags: socialmedia google searchengine seo search) How to increase your chance of finding a job and decrease your chance of having to vent on AngryJournalist.com (revisited) My friend Bryan Murley has [...]
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1 Dec 2009MediaShift . Merging Online and Broadcast Cultures to Reinvent 'NewsHour' | PBS An insight look at the attempt to create a new PBS Newshour (tags: journalism convergence media, online pbs) SacredFacts: Time to go… Richard Sambrook leaving the BBC after 30 years. (tags: BBC journalism) A journalist’s guide to SEO | Blog | Econsultancy Believe [...]
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21 Nov 2009Internal AP Memo Thanks Writers For Successful 'Literary Treasure Hunt' In Finding Sarah Palin's Book | TPMDC How the Associated Press managed to get a copy of Palin's book ahead of publication and conduct a much-heralded fact check that detailed where her claims didn't line up with reality. (tags: journalism politics , Sarah Palin, AP)
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20 Nov 2009The BBC and Public Space [Thinking Faith - the online journal of the British Jesuits] BBC director general Mark Thompson: Public space is not-for-profit space, not by accident but by design. It exists not to make money but to serve the public and it is accountable to them. (tags: BBC Murdoch, media, public sphere, space)
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26 Oct 2009Media in Canada – keeping media and marketing execs up to speed on the Canadian media scene Circulation at Canadian dailies declines, with National Post down 20% and the Globe down 8.4%: (tags: Canada media newspapers circulation) CBC News – Canada – Biggest change in history of CBC News: What it means to you CBC [...]
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