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24 Feb 2010The 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 [...]
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. [youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtKZHB8zp7I&]
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 [...]
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=49229411]
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 [...]
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24 Apr 2008Image 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 [...]
Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of Persuasive Games, on the challenges of making news games for the media. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1077336&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin)
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)
One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online. Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them [...]
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