The British Council has posted a wonderful video on the production of an issue of The Times during the Blitz in the 1940s. The film, called Morning Paper, follows the different stages of the process, from the daily editorial conference to the printing presses. “Britons are inveterate newspaper readers,” says the presenter. “The morning survey of events at home and aboard is for them almost a ritual.” Thanks to Richard Sambrook

The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, outlined the new context for journalism when he recently received the Goldsmith career award for excellence in journalism, one of America’s most prestigious accolades. In his keynote address, Rusbridger made the case for open journalism, arguing that “open is best” in all areas of journalism. His talk at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy starts about 47 minutes into the

With Libya in the news, I thought I would share this piece I did for BBC News in 1995 about the Libyan economy. As the BBC correspondent in the region, I visited Libya twice and interviewed Gaddafi during one of these trips. It was, by far, the strangest interview I have ever done. We were on standby all day until the call came late in the evening that Gaddafi was

The outgoing director of the BBC’s global news division, Richard Sambrook, looked back at a career in journalism spanning 30 years in a conversation at the Frontline Club with Vin Ray, of the BBC College of Journalism. Sambrook is leaving the BBC to join PR company Edelman as “there’s not another job for me. I’ve run out of road”. Among his key points: The internet for breaking and daily news is

The Christian Science Monitor has produced a video to explain its mission now that it has abandoned a daily print product in favour of a shift to the web and a new print weekly

It should come as no surprise that online journalists are more optimistic about the future of news than their counterparts in traditional media outlets. But this optimism is tempered with a healthy dose of concerns about where journalism is going, according to the survey (PDF) of select members of the Online News Association (ONA) produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The online professionals believe that

Robert Scoble streamed his keynote at last week’s Online News Association annual conference in DC live via a mobile phone. It was a powerful demonstration of the new tools of communication he talked about. [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118/220081&embedId

Guy Berger, head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, was awarded a $630,000 Knight News Challenge grant for the News is Coming project. As he explains, the aim is to have local news reports disseminated through cellphones to help connect an all-black township in South Africa with the white population living in the urban center. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.587296&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia

Image via WikipediaThe BBC‘s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy. In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer. So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a Freedom of Information request. As far as I can tell, this is the first

Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals. (Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy)