The most popular posts for 2011 are dominated by Twitter and social media, as this has increasingly become a focus on my academic research. But the top five are older posts from 2007, 2008 and 2009 that continue to resonate with readers. Principles of journalism as a word cloud What a word cloud says about this blog How to find out anything about anyone online The new roles for journalists
PDF The news that mainstream media organisations use Twitter as a broadcast channel is hardly surprising. The study of Twitter feeds from 13 major news outlets in the US by the Pew Research Center’s Project in Excellence in Journalism is in line with earlier academic studies. The Pew study, in collaboration with the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, found that Twitter was mainly used to distribute news and boost
The Journalism Interactive conference at the University of Maryland kicks off with a panel on social media, with an introduction by Mashable editor-in-chief Adam Ostrow, @adamostrow. Jim Long, @newmediajiim, from NBC News, starts by pointing out how social media has shifted power from a few people at the top to everybody. Liz Heron, @lheron, social media editor for The New York Times, picks up on the theme. In her view, social media has
One of studies presented at the Future of Journalism conference looked at the practice of updating stories on news websites. Kostas Saltzis from the University of Leicester looked at how the news story was changing, given a 24/7 news cycle in an online environment when a story can be constantly updated. He studied the news sites of several UK newspapers such as the Guardian and the Times, and broadcasters such
The different news agendas of the US mainstream media, blogs and Twitter are one of revelations of the annual State of the Media report for 2011 from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report found that the news agenda of blogs closely followed the mainstream media, with both agreeing on nine of the top 10 stories of the year, including the economy, the midterm elections, the health care debate and
Image via Wikipedia I am very pleased to say that I have received a $10,000 award from IBM to support research into visualisation in journalism. Big thank you to the research team at IBM Canada for the grant. We’ve been talking about doing some research into best practices in journalism for the use of IBM’s ManyEyes. Here’s the announcement posted to the UBC Graduate School of Journalism website: UBC journalism
Director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, on the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio. He talks about the potential to produce better journalism now then ever before. His concerns: the unbundling of content and the challenge of monetising civic news. (Via Project for Excellence in Journalism) Print
There is no doubt that this is going to be a tough year for the media in Canada and beyond. Journalism students graduating this year have the talent and the skills that the industry needs, but the question is whether news organisations will invest in them. Even student journalism award winners are finding it tough. Azeem Ahmad, the winner of Birmingham University Student Journalist of the Year award sponsored by
Image via WikipediaA major study into US newspapers by the Project for Excellence in Journalism presents a picture of an industry struggling to come to terms with the seismic changes taking place in the media. As the report highlights: On one hand, financial pressures sap its strength and threaten its very survival. On the other, the rise of the web boosts its competitiveness, opens up innovative new forms of journalism,
June’s Carnival of Journalism, a monthly collection of thoughts from the journalism blogosphere, focused on the issue of local. The question was whether journalism is better the more local it is. The range of responses shows this is a rich area for debate. I sat out the carnival as I was on honeymoon in Thailand. But one of the entries from Paul Bradshaw, arguing that online all journalism is potentially