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Extracts from a report by the UK’s National Union of Journalists’ Commission on Multi-media Working have provoked a storm of commentary online.
The details are in the current issue of the NUJ magazine, The Journalist. But you can get an idea of what it says from this posting on the UK Press Gazette.
Shane Richmond at The [...]

I am catching up on my notes from a conference in Monterrey, Mexico - Third International Symposium: Social Information and Communication Technologies for a Knowledge Society - I attended last week. Here are some observations from on a panel on digital journalism in Europe I was on.
Jean-Francois Fogel of Le Monde:

Le Monde has [...]

Earlier this month, the BBC got the go-ahead to put advertising on the BBCNews.com. This means that readers from outside the UK should start seeing the ads from November.
During my time at the BBC News website, international readers would often remark that one of the things they liked about the site was the lack [...]

Say goodbye to the idea of carrying around a laptop and a dozen other gadgets to be able to file from the field.
Reuters, in partnership with Nokia, have been trying out a mobile journalism toolkit that fits into a small backpack.
With a Nokia N95, bluetooth keyboard, an external microphone, basic tripod and [...]

Just returned from a lightning trip to Monterrey in Mexico for a conference.
It went by the unwieldy title of: Third International Symposium: Social Information and Communication Technologies for a Knowledge Society.
I was fortunate to be part of a great panel on digital journalism in Europe, with Jean-Francois Fogel from Le Monde, Ismael Nafria from El [...]

The BBC’s Nick Reynolds, currently working on guidelines for personal blogs of staffers, offers an insight into the skirmishes with the Biased BBC blog.
Biased BBC is the bane of many editors as it regularly criticises the Beeb, accusing it of all sorts of bias.
The article was published in the BBC’s inhouse magazine, Ariel, but [...]

The conference of the Online News Association climaxed on Friday night with the awards ceremony. USAToday was the overall winner for general excellence as the judges were impressed how it had moved to put its audience at “the centre of news, not just at the receiving end”.
One of the most interesting aspects of the awards [...]

Mike Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, was the keynote speaker on day two of the Online News Association conference in Toronto.
The main thrust of his talk: quality journalism is good for society, it creates a democratic society and that builds wealth.
Some highlights:

Journalists can help audiences deal with information overload. The [...]

If you are a journalism student, this is what senior editors are looking for. Speaking at the ONA 2007 conference, Kinsey Wilson of USAToday said J-school students need a grounding in the fundamentals of journalism - research, reporting, writing.
But secondly, they need a complete immersion in the news media and the technology that surrounds [...]

The first ONA panel on day 2 is about how to manage a newsroom in the 21st century. Despite starting at 8.30am, the session is pretty packed.
This is understandable, as just about every newsroom is struggling to bridge the cultural differences between print, broadcast and online.
Jim Brady from the WashingtonPost.com admitted that managing the [...]