One of my journalism students drew my attention to this collection of memorable local US news segments of the year. My favourite is this clip from Fox 8 in Cleveland. The reporter attempts to make up for a lack of pictures by using a cardboard cut-out re-enactment for a story about a recent string of black bear sightings. (This can’t be real, can it?)

Watching history being made – on TV and on the web. Or in this case on both – President-elect Barack Obama’s acceptance address in Chicago on TV and online at the BBC News website

My request to find out how much the BBC has made in advertising revenue since it started putting ads on the international version of its news site, BBC.com, has been rejected (PDF). I filed a Freedom of Information request using the WhatDoTheyKnow site. In its reply, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, argued that: Disclosure would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of both the BBC and

Image via WikipediaThe BBC‘s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy. In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer. So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a Freedom of Information request. As far as I can tell, this is the first

Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme: …on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home movies and the like so that we can become the BBC’s version of Animals

Among all the reports of job cuts at the BBC and approval for ads on BBCNews.com, also comes news that the Beeb is dropping its plans for ultra-local TV services on satellite. The idea had been controversial from the start, with local newspapers worried that the BBC would eat into their markets. The voice of local newspapers and websites, the Newspaper Society, welcomed the decision. But any rejoicing might be