The research papers for this year’s International Online Journalism Symposium are now available online. The papers cover a wide range of topics, from blogging at US broadcast networks (PDF) to models for micropayments (PDF) to a study of the New York Times interactive technology desk (PDF). Together with one of my graduating journalism students, I will be presenting a paper on a project to research and development a Canadian music

Academic presentations dominate the second day of the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas. The research papers cover a wide range of topics, but one topic that kept coming up was user-generated content, also described as citizen journalism and participatory journalism. Normally, I would have blogged the papers and highlighted some of the research. But my energy levels are low today so instead I recommend reading the

Everyone seems to be talking about mobile as the future for media at day two of the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas. So I asked the Twitterverse: Is news on cellphones is coming of age or is it hype? Here are a selection of the responses

Journalists don’t tend to look back every often, which is why a session on 10 years of online journalism at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas is timely. The conference is celebrating its 10th anniversary, so on day two, the first panel looks at what has happened over the past 10 years and what the next decade holds. The panel brings together the people who were

The final panel of the day at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas looked at visual and multimedia story-telling on the web. María Teresa Ronderos, Editor of Semana.com from Colombia showed some of the site’s impressive work in using multimedia to explore and explain different types of stories. Semana.com put together an in-depth on the FARC rebels. It also sought to use multimedia to explain complex

The first afternoon panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas sought to answer the question: Is newsroom integration working? The response from Anthony Moor, Deputy Managing Editor/Interactive, Dallas Morning News was a blunt “No”. He highlighted two reasons for this. Firstly, what the newspaper is asking journalists to do is significantly different from what they are used to doing. So there is a skills gap

Speaking at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas, Rachel Nixon, Global News Director at NowPublic.com talked about a new news cycle. The ability of people to witness and report the news to their network – Facebook, Twitter, etc – creates a emerging news cycle, argued Nixon. In the past, she said, someone would witness an event, tell a reporter, who would filter and process the information,

The second panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas brought together a range of voices to discuss how journalists are engaging in the conversation online. It featured one of my former colleagues, Paul Brannan,  emerging platforms editor at the BBC News website, who started off by emphasising that social media is going to be at the heart of journalism in the future. The BBC is

First panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas went to the heart of the problem facing the established media: business models in online journalism. Steve Outing started off by asking if we are trying hard enough, answering the question with a resounding, “No”. But he also criticised ideas of locking up content behind pay walls. Instead he offered some ideas for the newspaper industry –