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 as a part of the future of news. Print
PDF The BBC News website is gearing up to unveil its new look which will include wider pages and bigger images, according to website editor Steve Herrmann. The current look dates back to 2003 and it is showing its age. After all, Internet time moves at a faster pace than regular time. But one of the most welcomed changes will be the use of Flash embedded video, rather than pop-ups in
The British comedy duo of Mitchell and Webb make fun of the current trend towards interactivity and user-generated content by broadcasters such as the BBC. The clip is from their BBC show, That Mitchell and Webb Look: Print
The BBC has finally started to roll out the use of embedded video in Flash, after a successful trial last year. The trial found, unsurprisingly, that people liked having the video as an embedded Flash file in story pages. One of the first stories to use the new player was a behind the scenes look at Google’s approach to office space on the BBC News website’s technology index. Up until
An interesting take on the US presidential elections produced by my friend Erica Rowell and Michele Chivu, reminiscence in style of The Washington Post’s OnBeing project. Print
The BBC’s Darren Waters has written about the pros and cons of using a mobile phone as a reporting tool on the dot.life blog. He has been using a Nokia N95 during a reporting trip to California to test the limits of what is possible with these kind of devices. Overall, as I too have found, the video quality of the N95 is impressive, especially in a well-lit environment. The
I caught up with Clive Thompson after his talk at the Knight Science Journalism symposium and asked him about his love of blogging. His blog is Collision Detection. (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print
This is probably the best ever song about a news site, Digg, and likely the envy of mainstream news outlets: According to TechCrunch, Kina Grannis, the girl behind the online hit “Digg Song” (video above) has been approached by a record company interested in discussing a record deal. Technorati Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Site Search Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Print
News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way. In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in TV news at CNN and Discovery. For example, TV folks try to avoid having a talking head,
It’s the time of the year when news editors will be thinking about their priorities for the coming year. For online news sites, is it going to be video, user-generated content or social media? For at least one UK newspaper website, The Telegraph, 2008 is going to be all about video. Edward Roussel, the digital editor at Telegraph Media Group says this is the site’s biggest priority for next year,