Archive for September, 2006

Power of the networked crowd

September 15, 2006 in crowdsourcing

The failed attempt by the Chinese government to stop the online distribution of video and photos of student demonstration in Rulan shows the power of a networked world.
The blog Global Voices has a good write-up of the events surrounding the alleged suicide of a young teacher and the subsequent protests over the suspected [...]

Going to the web

September 14, 2006 in interactive journalism, internet, multimedia

An interesting read on the Online Journalism Review entitled Web journalist, know thyself. It is by Jonathan Morgan, a web producer for the New York Times who is taking his first steps into web publishing.
He writes: “About nine months ago, I decided to free myself from the shackles of submission editors and paper-based journalism and [...]

Integration the Dutch way

September 13, 2006 in multiplatform journalism, new media

Another newspaper is moving towards an integrated newsroom, this time in The Netherlands. The process the de Volkskrant, one of Holland’s leading daily quality newspapers started about a year ago and in an interview with journalism.co.uk publisher Pieter Kok explains how it is going.
I particularly like the way he describes the paper, turning the [...]

9/11 front pages

September 12, 2006 in newspapers

The fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks dominated the front pages of newspapers on Monday. The design of many of these showed how effectively the newspaper format can be used to tell a story.
Some of the front pages from around the world can be seen on the blog of a consultancy called [...]

9/11 as a graphic novel

September 11, 2006 in multimedia

How about this for a different approach in story-telling. Slate is running a graphic adaptation of the 9/11 report produced by Sid Jacobson and Ernie ColĂłn. The graphic novel takes the 9/11 Commission Report and sets it to images.
The result is striking but it does make me feel slightly uneasy.
Is this an effective [...]

Journalism and the long tail

September 11, 2006 in interactive journalism

Some of you may have heard of Chris Anderson and his book The Long Tail. In a lengthy interview with the Press Gazette, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine talks about where journalism is heading.

He explains how the way people are getting their news is changing and why he believes media organisations should offer their [...]

The integrated newspaper

September 8, 2006 in newspapers

In the UK, one of the leading broadsheets, The Telegraph, has revealed its plans to bring together its editorial operations.
As the veteran UK journalist Roy Greenslade wrote in his blog:
“So the paper renowned for its conservative politics is about to take the most revolutionary step in its history, more sweeping than the initial introduction [...]

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