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It sounds like there was some tension in the discussion over user-generated content at the Mesh web conference in Toronto.
My former boss, BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann was on the panel, together with Tony Hung, an editor with blog aggregator The Blog Herald, and Paul Sullivan of Orato.com, a citizen journalism site [...]

If newspapers were hoping that online advertising sales could make up for a shortfall in print ads, think again.
A forthcoming report from Borrell Associates on local web revenue shows that the share of web advertising captured by newspaper websites is falling:
Despite growth in real revenue, newspapers have lost eight percent of the market share in [...]

Who is the blame for the sorry state of journalism in the US? According to Neil Henry, professor of journalism at University of California at Berkeley, it it is the likes of Google and Yahoo:
I see a world where corporations such as Google and Yahoo continue to enrich themselves with little returning to journalistic [...]

After just a couple of days, 2,000 people have joined a Facebook group set up by CBC. The project is a partnership with Facebook.com and the Canadian youth organization Student Vote, dubbed the Great Canadian Wish List.
It is aimed at providing a forum for Canadians to express their top wish, tapping into the social networking [...]

You can almost imagine the conversation in the boardroom - let’s get our consumers to come up with some ads, post them on YouTube and we’ll be the talk of the town, or at least the internet.
Unfortunately, taping into the power of user-generated content doesn’t always go as planned, as this an article in the [...]

In case you missed it, the EPpy Awards were announced earlier this week, honouring the top media-affiliated websites in 33 categories.
In a startling ‘old media’ approach, the official announcement does not have any links to the winners. This is just plain dumb, especially for a set of prestigious Internet awards.
So kudos to Mindy McAdams [...]

News about the first set of winners of the Knight News Challenge
has rippled across the Internet.
Rather than repeat who got what, I wanted to highlight a couple of the smaller grants. One of the innovative initiatives funded by the Knight Foundation are scholarships for computer programmers and web developers to pursue a master’s [...]

When a breaking news ticker doesn’t quite work as it should. From The Globe and Mail’s website:

That was all that came up. The item was referring to a story on how breakups hit men harder.

A teen stabbing in Vancouver has caused a flurry of activity on Facebook, which has led the police to appeal for calm. The reason has been angry comments left on the memorial groups set up on Facebook for the dead 13-year old Chrisna Poeung.
While his friends were reluctant to talk to the press, they [...]

One of the most stimuating aspects about online journalism is that there is no proven way of doing things. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for editors.
One constantly evolving area is website design, as news organisations try to improve how to present and convey information over the internet. The approaches [...]