The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients. The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment. Several projects – Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones – focus developing mobiles as platforms for news, especially in parts of the world
PDF As the Online Journalism Symposium draws to a close, I wanted to draw attention to the keynote on Saturday by Ramón Salaverria. He is a professor and vice chair at the School of Communication, Navarra University, Spain In his address, he tackled the illusive topic of convergence. In his view, convergence is very different to integration. Print
The afternoon session at the Online Journalism Symposium focuses on the shift from passive audiences to online communities. Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com makes a compelling argument for engaging with audiences online. The Post’s strategy is smart – it tries out a lot of different things, from blogs to live discussions to comments on articles, to see what works and what doesn’t. “Out of all the things we’ve
Second panel at the Online Journaism Symposium focuses on the hybrid newsroom, bringing together Chris Lloyd, Assistant Managing Editor, of The Daily Telegrah, Rich Meislin, Associate Managing Editor/Internet Publishing of The New York Times, Almar Latour, Managing Editor of the WallStreetJournal.com, Guillermo Franco, Editor of ElTiempo.com in Colombia and Liza Gross, Managing Editor/Presentation and Operations at The Miami Herald. Lloyd touches on the theme of change, talking about how The
I’m off to Austin, Texas, for the 2008 International Online Journalism Symposium to present a paper on the BBC’s blogging strategy during the Saturday session. There is a promising line-up and some 200 scholars, professional journalists and media executives have registered for the event. If you can’t make it, students will be live blogging the sessions using CoverLive, and I will also be writing about the sessions. New this year
Local news in the US reaches out to the ‘kids’ with Dance Party Friday, at least at Local 12 News in Cincinnati. Print
A student sent me this clip from the British comedy programme, Yes Prime Minister, on who reads the newspapers in Britain. It is very funny, especially because its analysis is spot on. Print
The Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the State of the Media for 2008 is online. It offers a comprehensive and thorough analysis of trends in the media and is required reading for anyone in journalism. Digesting the report will take some time. But I wanted to highlight two of its major trends: “News is shifting from being a product — today’s newspaper, website or newscast — to becoming
If you are heading into 2008 thinking, we must do more with social media, here is a useful primer to social news websites. From the post: Social news websites generally operate via a wisdom of the crowds principle; groups of individuals with different points of views are able to collectively determine the value or importance of content disseminated through the community. The users are given the editorial power to influence
The BBC’s Nick Reynolds, currently working on guidelines for personal blogs of staffers, offers an insight into the skirmishes with the Biased BBC blog. Biased BBC is the bane of many editors as it regularly criticises the Beeb, accusing it of all sorts of bias. The article was published in the BBC’s inhouse magazine, Ariel, but Nick has posted the more than 1,000 words on his blog. He urges the