The second session at International Symposium on Online Journalism focused on the impact of mobile and tablet. A common theme was the need to tailor content for different mobile platforms to account for different audience needs and behaviours. Pedro Doria, digital platforms editor, O Globo newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, started off by explaining how the company developed the iPad edition of the newspaper. The iPad edition was based on understanding that readership on

Canadians love the internet.  That’s the conclusion of a study that found that Canadians value their home Internet connection more than any other medium An online survey of 1,682 adults, conducted by the Canadian Media Research Consortium (CMRC )and Vision Critical, showed that 42%  of respondents say they would be “least willing to give up” their home internet connection. Some 24% said they would be least willing to give up their television cable subscription,

One of the research papers presented at ISOJ by Hsiang Iris Chyi and Monica Chadha, University of Texas at Austin looked at how people were getting their news on new devices (paper in PDF). The researchers suggested the idea of newsfulnews as a way of measuring the likelihood of a multi-purpose device being used for news, based on the number who use a device for news compared to total number of

John Kilpatrick, vice president of design for The Daily, provided an inside look into the new iPad app at the ISOJ. The Daily is a custom application with a custom content management system that was built from the ground up for product. The idea is to be able to create custom experiences everyday, exploring what works and what doesn’t work, he said. Kilpatrick explained that the experience of news on a

Paul Brannan, emerging platforms editor, BBC News, gave some background on the development of the BBC iPhone/iPad news app at the ISOJ. Talking about its development, he said he had huge ambitions for the app but very limited resources. “The outcome is a far cry from the one I had hoped for,” said Brannan, who has just left the BBC. The app essentially repurposes content from the BBC News website.

The second panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium focused on mobile platforms and how journalism is adapting to new devices such as the Apple iPad. The first speaker was Dan Treinish, director of content acquisition & business development, Skiff, a platform to distribute content to mobile devices. Skiff was incubated as a start-up by Hearst about three years ago. The business model is based on the migration of ad

This comScore briefing on the digital media landscape in Canada has valuable data about what Canadians go online. The presentation delves into social media, video and mobile. comScore Briefing – State of the Digital Media Universe View more presentations from AchillesMedia. (Via Newslab.ca)

Everyone seems to be talking about mobile as the future for media at day two of the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas. So I asked the Twitterverse: Is news on cellphones is coming of age or is it hype? Here are a selection of the responses

During a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the internet on the US presidential elections at the AEJMC annual conference, one of the panellists raised a startling point. Aaron Smith, a research specialist at Pew Internet and American Life Project, make a prediction about how campaigns might be able to reach voters as the moment they are casting their ballots. He suggested that eventually a smart engineer would figure out

Liz Nord, supervising producer at MTV News, takes the stage at the Online Journalism Symposium, and does a little bit of explaining that MTV is more than music video and yes, it has a newsroom. But after the brief educational slide, she focuses on the Street Team 08 project. This brings together 51 young citizen reporters to cover the US presidential race for MTV by blogging, vlogging or producing more