For a second year running, Reportr.net, is one of the finalists for best blog in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The blog is nominated (PDF) in the business-to-business, professional, scholarly category. I am honoured that the judges selected my blog as one of the finalists. Reportr.net won best blog in this category last year. The work of my students at the UBC School of Journalism has received four nominations, including

There is a wealth of material on the present and future of the news media in a report, Brave News Worlds: Navigating the New Media Landscape (PDF), published last week by the International Press Institute (IPI). The 152-page report brings together 42 essays were written by news executives, digital thinkers and educators from across the world. My attention was drawn to a provocatively entitled entry, The Future of TV News Belongs, in Part,

Publisher Emond Montgomery has graciously posted my chapter, “New Challenges for Journalism in the 21st Century”, from The New Journalist: Roles, Skills, and Critical Thinking as a free download. It is the first chapter in the book, discussing how the professional of journalism has changed, both in terms of  practical skills and the mindset: The start of the 21st century has been marked by media industries facing profound change in

My latest column on PBS Mediashift looks at how to teach multimedia journalism in the classroom. This means that journalists need to think on different levels as they conceive of a story and its treatment. It involves taking a multifaceted approach to a story and working out how best to tell it with the media available. The attraction for journalists is the ability to tell a story in multiple ways,

The list of finalists for the Online Journalism Awards is out. As usual, it is dominated by US entries. One notable exception is Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, nominated for its Talking to the Taliban special in the investigative and multimedia categories . Also interesting to note that the Huffington Post and Politico are one of the finalists in the General Excellence, Large Site, category, up against the likes of

A case involving photos from Flickr used by CityTV raises questions about the issue of copyright and fair dealing. The Torontoist reports that Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) found that CityTV had violated the Association of Electronic Journalists of Canada’s RTNDA Code of (Journalistic) Ethics by using the photos of an alleged burglar that Joel Charlebois had posted to his Flickr account. The full judgement explains that the issue not

The findings of the News Barometer survey of newspaper editors has been extensively covered, so I just wanted to pick up on a few of items from it. “35 percent believe print will reign supreme”. This is a spurious question. Editors should not worry which form of media will reign supreme, but rather which is the most suitable format to use for a story, considering the audience for that story.

Clark Boyd is technology correspondent for The World, a coproduction of the BBC and WGBH, and funded by Public Radio International. I caught up with him in Boston to reflect back on his three years of podcasting and look ahead to the future of radio. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.478889&w=425&h=350&fv=] Technorati Tags: BBC, WGBH, podcasting, technology

CNN is taking its approach to citizen journalism one step further by setting up iReport.com as a dedicated citizen media site. Like many other mainstream media outlets, CNN has had to cope with far more submissions from the audience than it could process and publish. Only around 10% of the 100,000 photos and videos sent to CNN have been posted since the launch its citizen journalism project in August 2006

There already has been much discussion online about the piece in the New York Times on woes facing the newspaper business. It paints a gloomy picture about the future of print, with a litany of layoffs, buyouts, and declining revenues. None of this is new news. As Dan Kennedy points out, “the news business has been through several paradigm shifts since taking on a form we’d recognize beginning in the