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Like just about every celebrity, X-Files actress Gillian Anderson has her own website.
One part of it is entitled “Messages from Gillian”, supposedly so that she can talk directly to fans. But the actress is not happy with the way the media has also been reading her messages.
Apparently, she is going to stop writing [...]

This cartoon neatly sums up the situation in many newsrooms:

From Daryl Cagle via Cagle Cartoons.

Arguably the world’s leading broadcaster, the BBC has outlined its priorities for the coming year in its Statements of Programme Policy 2007/2008.
The lengthy document makes interesting reading, not just because of what it includes, but what it doesn’t. In particular, any discussion of the BBC’s award-winning news site, BBCNews.com seems like a bit of [...]

NPR’s On The Media has an interesting take on the last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech.
The programme interviewed Thomas de Zengotita, author of Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in it on how students related to their experiences.
The main point was to examine to what extent the students [...]

As a decision on a proposal to put ads on BBCNews.com nears, opposition to the plan is gathering steam. The National Union of Journalists has thrown its added its voice, warning of “creeping commercialisation”. Its posters bear the slogan, “Say no to McBBC - junk the ads.”
The commercial arm of the BBC, Worldwide, has [...]

One of the questions that news editors often raise about user-generated content is whether passive ‘readers’ want to be active ‘producers’, and whether anyone reads this stuff.
New figures from the BBC suggest that the answer is as simple as yes or no. Its Have Your Say section received record page views in January of [...]

This is an impressive mash-up of social media and data by OpenSecrets.org to reveal the connections between donors and US presidential candidates.
It offers a visual representation of who is funding whom and the links between them. The interactive flash graphic puts an accessible and compelling interface to the byzantine world of political funding. We got [...]

During a session I moderated to the Knight New Media Center seminar on Election ‘08 on Thursday, we discussed the networked nature of news in the era of the Internet. This was one of the themes that emerged in other presentations too. It is the idea that news organisations are part of a network of [...]

Amy Gahran discussed how journalism is a conversation at the Knight New Media Center Election 08 seminar.
Her notes are available in two detailed blog posts, one looking at how to foster community and another one of the tools of engagement.
But in her talk she unveiled what she described as the secret weapons of conversational [...]

Day two of the Knight New Media Center seminar on Election ‘08, kicking with a session I moderated on the internet’s impact on journalism. My main argument - this is a great time to be a journalist, with the more ways to reach more people than ever before. I cheekily entitled the session, Jam [...]