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The line-up for this year’s Online Journalism Symposium at the University of Texas, Austin, has just been posted.
It is an unusual event as it brings together news professionals and journalism academics. The aim is to encourage them to share experiences and ideas.
One of the key sessions is about the transformation of newspaper to multimedia [...]

There’s a very funny satire on the concept of the news-paper by Amy Gahran over at Poynter.
Here’s a snippet to give you a taste of it:
“You mean you have to handle all this paper every day?”
“No, I only paid for Thursdays, Sundays, and holidays.”
“You paid for this?…” he frowned, shaking his head. “How do you [...]

As the CBC ponders how to move its into a Web 2.0 world, some advice for the corporation at the Northern Voice conference. At a session, entitled Hacking the Mothercorp, people working in social media offered their suggestions on how the CBC should move forward.
CBC’s Tod Maffin has a MP3 recording of the session [...]

It looks like BBC Worldwide is trying to allay fears over its plans for advertising on the BBC’s international websites.
The MediaGuardian reports that the ads will only run on “selected high-traffic genres”, such as news, sports and weather.
These are the crown jewels of the BBC’s online empire. News and sports account for at [...]

One of the points that Adrian Monck raises in his entry on online video is the issue of video specifically commissioned for the web.
He points out that the BBC News website is “awash with audio and video material but rather modestly, it hides these jewels away.” But this material is essentially TV packages made [...]

There is a flurry of discussion online about how established news organisations are offering video on their websites.
The debate centres over how far can existing TV practices be adapted to the world of YouTube and short clips.
Newspapers are rushing headlong into deals to offer video on their websites, but as Paul Bradshaw points out, “in [...]

A unexpected group has come out against plans to plaster advertising on the BBC’s international websites. The idea is strongly opposed by many BBC staff. Now, the opposition comes from media companies which are part of the British Interactive Publishers Alliance.
Usually the BIPA takes issue with anything the BBC does online, seeing it as [...]

Paul Bradshaw from the University of Central England Birmingham had his students do an interesting exercise in class at the start of a module in online journalism.
He gave his students 20 minutes to write a blog entry on why they needed online journalism skills. As you can imagine, there was a wide range of [...]

The BBC’s Richard Sambrook has some sound advice for the co-founder and CEO of Topix, Rich Skrenta - “Duck and take cover, Rich.”
This is always good advice for most situations. The reason this time is a provocative post by Rich following the WeMedia conference in Miami.
The nub of his argument is that no News 2.0 [...]

Mark Glaser has a thoughtful post wrapping up the WeMedia conference which has just ended in Miami.
He comments on how much of the the talk revolved how mainstream media could regain its former dominance of the news. Glaser said that at one point he was so riled that he had to comment, saying:
What [...]