With the start of the new semester, I haven’t had enough time to post to this blog so apologies to all. The first couple of weeks of a new term are always a hectic time. It is also time for my students to take up blogging as part of the core Integrated Journalism course at the University of British Columbia. I have written a piece for PBS Mediashift on why

The team behind a contest for student bloggers dropped me an e-mail, announcing the launch of their third annual blogging scholarship. The scheme offers students who blog the chance to win a $10,000 scholarship. The contest has just started accepting submissions, but you only have until the end of the month to apply. While this is a laudable effort at providing an imaginative way to fund your way through college,

One of the big debates about blogging is whether the huge number of blogs means people are exposed to a greater variety of news and opinion. Research by the University of Wisconsin presented at the AEJMC annual conference suggests not. In a survey of almost 4,000 reader of political blogs found that most people read that match their political ideology.  But these people are also more likely to participate in

Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage Evolution, talks about how there are two kinds of bloggers, the Holmes and the Watson. (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the ICA annual conferencein Montreal)

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)

Clive Thompson has just bombarded a room full of science journalists about the joys of blogging and Twittering. Thompson was a Knight Science fellow, during which he became his blog, Collision Detection. Today, at a symposium to mark the 25th anniversary of the fellowships at MIT, he evangelised about the benefits of blogging. For Clive, he blogs to improve the way he thinks. The blog was what Cory Doctorow describes

Blogging in journalism is one of those topics that can provoke strong emotions. Usually critics of blogs are quick to proclaim that “blogging isn’t journalism!” This kind of debate is fruitless, as it confuses form with content. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or radio. The content may or may not be journalism. As with any platform, it has its own conventions which has developed