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Lessons from NPR’s Twitter study

NPR has a fascinating study of its audiences on Twitter and Facebook. The survey highlighted significant difference in content, engagement and media habits.  It found that NPR Twitter followers: Get all or most of their news online Prioritise hard, breaking news Click on fewer links compared to Facebook fans The findings suggest that audiences value Twitter for its immediacy and short-form messages, which is ideal for sending out breaking news

A quirky take on producing a radio show

A tongue-in-cheek primer on how to produce a radio show by host Nora Young and the team at the CBC show Spark. Remember, before you do anything, you need a good idea for a radio show! For more gems, here’s the video. (Via Inside the CBC blog)

Podcasts as audio blogging

While I was in Boston at the Future of Science Journalism symposium at MIT, I dropped in to see my friend, Clark Boyd, technology correspondent on The World radio show and did a short video interview with him using an Nokia N95. That was after he interviewed me for his weekly technology podcast during which we talked about the Internet was changing the media landscape. The interview is available in