The UK journalism site, journalism.co.uk, has put together a list of 50 blogs on journalism. The list  covers “blogging reporters who share their tips and experiences of mobile journalism, blogging journalism educators, and blogging photojournalist.” It is required reading for anyone interested in gaining insight and perpectives on the changing  of journalism. I’m honoured that this blog, Reportr.net, is included on a list. Among the other blogs by journalism educators are Mindy

This graphic on the top trends on Twitter in 2012 has been in the bookmarks for a few days. Among the key points: Twitter grew to 500 million users – 140 million are active users 150 million Tweets were posted during the London Olympic games Barack Obama’s “4 more years” photo is now the most retweeted in history A quarter of all top trends were hash tags. The others were

My keynote at the Neo-journalism conference in Brussel was called “The Ambient News Network: Twitter and the reconfiguration of journalism.” It looked at how Twitter has developed as a network for real-time news and information, influencing how news organisations respond to breaking news, how journalists go about their reporting and whose voices are heard. Twitter facilitates the instant, online dissemination and reception of short fragments of information from sources outside

At the Neo-journalism conference, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel of Université Stendhal, Grenoble, presented a study in live coverage conducted with Brigitte Sebbah of the Université de’Metz. The researchers were looking at whether live coverage, or live blogs, can be considered a new form of reporting. For the study, they examined live coverage by Le Monde of the DSK case, which offered an explosive cocktail of sex, politics and power. They looked at 40 hours of continuous

The forthcoming changes announced by Twitter limiting what others can do with tweets has angered developers. But news organisations and others involved in aggregating and curating material from social media should also be concerned. The “Display Guidelines” will become “Display Requirements” and impose strict rules over how tweets can be shown, in order “to ensure that Twitter users have a consistent experience wherever they see and interact with tweets.” As

BBC News television and radio editors seem to have a perennial blind spot when it comes to the web.  A review of the BBC’s  coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011 by the BBC Trust found that broadcast outlets would rarely reference the BBC News website. The study (PDF) found that “the BBC news website provides a significant amount of background material, yet no cross reference was made to BBC online in over 97%

Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation, on the need to separate signal from noise. Speaking at the BBC spring briefing in London on May 4, Rosenbaum talked about the importance of sharing content that is interesting, valid thoughtful and useful

The world of journalism and Twitter is buzzing following the new Sky News policy on Twitter and the BBC’s new guidance on breaking news. Both organisations have told their journalists not to break news on Twitter first. In a post on the BBC’s Editors blog, social media editor Chris Hamilton acknowledged the value of Twitter but concluded: We’ve been clear that our first priority remains ensuring that important information reaches

With the G20 summit almost upon Toronto, here is a word cloud of the message to residents from the federal government and the City of Toronto: And here is one of the information for demonstrators from the G20 Integrated Security Unit

At the final session of the ISOJ 2010, Andrew Lih, University of Southern California presented his research into the health of Wikipedia (PDF). His interest is prompted by talk about Wikipedia reaching its limits and a slowdown in the growth of the site. Lih notes that Wikipedia had grown so quickly that from 2006-2009 there was no data, until a massive data dump towards the end of 2009. Stats from