First panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas went to the heart of the problem facing the established media: business models in online journalism. Steve Outing started off by asking if we are trying hard enough, answering the question with a resounding, “No”. But he also criticised ideas of locking up content behind pay walls. Instead he offered some ideas for the newspaper industry –
PDF CBC News Sunday featured a piece on the future of newspapers for which I was interviewed last week. The piece airs on CBC-TV at 10:00pm in Canada and the segment is about an hour into the two-hour show. For those of you outside Canada, the video is already available on the CBC News Sunday website (though I wish I could embed it here). While newspapers do much of the original
In November 2008, Mathew Ingram took on the new position of communities editor at The Globe and Mail. In this interview, he talks about how he is defining his new role every day, working out how social media can build relationships between journalists and readers. (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print
Just finished publishing a bunch of j-student work on Vancouver’s local elections at TheThunderbird.ca. This was the final big assignment for this term for the students at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. There is a wealth of content on the race to be mayor of this beautiful city, the controversial $100m loan for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the debate over the future of the UBC Farm. The students
The Online Journalism Review has risen from the dead. The new OJR was announced in a posting on the Knight Digital Media Center by Geneva Overholser, the new director of the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California. Annenberg suspended publication of the OJR in June as the school went through a major transition. The site is now housed with the Knight Digital Media Center, and will
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,
A posting for an internship at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper and its website for a multimedia intern reads a lot like the job description for a 21st century journalist. The ad reads: This new position is for a multidisciplined and flexible multimedia journalist who can generate and execute multimedia ideas. Ideal candidates will be able to hit the ground running and juggle all types of content and content mediums
I caught up with Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com during one of the lunch break at this weekend’s Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, to find out what was happening at the news website: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1069138&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print
I was fortunate enough to present my research on how the BBC has integrated blogging in its journalism at the Online Journalism Symposium. The paper, The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?, is available for download as a PDF. Here’s the abstract to provide a taster of the paper: This study examines how the world’s largest news organization, the BBC, has sought to incorporate blogging in its journalism, both
After a morning of discussions about hyper-local at the Online Journalism Symposium, on comes Georgia Popplewell, the managing director of GlobalVoicesOnline.org to talk about the role of this non-profit in the media environment. She talks about Global Voices as the leading newsroom for citizen media content and its relationship with mainstream media, particularly one of its funders, Reuters. But she admits that it has not been as aggressive as it