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From Friday, Canadians will be told that newspapers are worth it, in a CAD $10 million awareness and marketing campaign.
The Canadian Newspaper Association is behind the three-month campaign to remind the public of the role of newspapers as champions of the public interest. The ads are intended to counteract the impression that the Internet [...]

You probably haven’t been able to avoid the mass coverage in the media of the release of Microsoft’s Halo 3 video game.
But sometimes the mainstream media gets it wrong, like in this TV report from the BBC where it used footage from Sony’s Killzone 2 by mistake.

I’ve worked with the reporter on the [...]

Lists are always popular online, but this one by Paul Bradshaw on how to be a journalism student is useful too.
Top of the list is “Read the news.” This echoes what we tell our students at the UBC School of Journalism. As an incentive, we test the students on their knowledge of current affairs [...]

Last week’s Future of Newspapers conference in Cardiff didn’t generate as much online coverage as similar conventions tend to do in the US. One of the few people providing updates was Paul Bradshaw via Twitter alerts. But then, there is only so much you can get into 140 words.
He did write a piece [...]

One of the pressing issues for the news industry is training. Many journalists simply do not have the skills needed in an Internet age, so the Knight Foundation is investing more than US$6 million in preparing reporters and editors for a digital world.
The money is going to the Knight Digital Media Center, [...]

TechPresident for scooping the US$10,000 Grand Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
The site tracks how the 2008 US presidential candidates are using the web, but also how content generated by voters such as YouTube videos of Flickr photos, is affecting the campaign. It is noteworthy that the top [...]

A key skill for journalists in an Internet age is knowing how to evaluate online news sources. This was part of the focus of this week’s class in multiplatform journalism at the UBC School of Journalism.
There are five criteria to consider:

Authority: Who created the site, why, and what are their credentials? [...]

Here is a list of essential online tools for journalists that I’ve handed out to my multiplatform journalism students at the University of British Columbia:
RSS software
Macs:

NetNewsWire (Free and paid for version, US$29.95, available)
Shrook (free)
Windows:

FeedDemon (Paid for US$29.95)
FeedReader (Free)
Sharpreader (Free)
Online RSS feed readers

Google Reader
Netvibes
Bloglines
Personalized news pages

MyYahoo
iGoogle
Blog aggregators:

Technorati
Icerocket
BlogPulse
News alerts:

Google Alerts
Yahoo Alerts
Webpage archiving:

Furl
Web 2.0 tools:

Docs: Google Docs
Office apps: [...]

The Future of Newspapers conference is taking place in Cardiff over the next couple of days.
It started with a keynote by former Guardian editor Peter Preston, which is available in video. Unfortunately the rest of the conference isn’t being webcast.
Looking around the web, there seems to be little coverage of the first day’s [...]

The head of the press watchdog in the UK has come up with an odd way to deal with the issue of trust online.
Sir Christopher Meyer, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has called for a digital kitemark for news sites, because there is a “crying need to be able to distinguish between what [...]