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I’m speaking at a couple of conferences in Vancouver this week, discussing how public service broadcasters can sustaining citizenship and civil society in an internet age.
In particular, I will be looking at the rise and fall of the BBC’s Action Network and propose new ways of moving forward as the BBC prepares its digital [...]
Image by gak via FlickrFans of the cancelled CBC show, Jpod, are planning to emulate the antics of fans across the border to save their beloved programme.
A Facebook group has been set up to coordinate a mail-in blitz to CBC in support of Jpod on May 19th.
The campaigners are suggested fans send in a little [...]
Image via WikipediaThis is something that I have addressed before, but it is too important to ignore - the issue of repurposing content for the web.
The BBC has taken its first steps towards integrating its news departments, with TV and radio now working in a common newsroom. The online team will join them [...]
Image via WikipediaThe BBC’s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy.
In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer.
So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a [...]
In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network.
The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service broadcasting because it was about encouraging people [...]
Image via WikipediaNBC has a strange idea of broadcast journalism for the 21st century. It has joined the New York Film Academyto launch a programme to “train the next generation of journalists who will be prepared to navigate the evolving landscape of digital journalism”.
The aim is to meet “the pressing demand for skilled, [...]
Image via WikipediaJeremy Paxman, the presenter of the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs show, Newsnight, reveals his feeling about user-generated content and engaging with the audience, with his pay-off at the end of the programme:
…on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of your old bits of home [...]
Liz Nord, supervising producer at MTV News, takes the stage at the Online Journalism Symposium, and does a little bit of explaining that MTV is more than music video and yes, it has a newsroom.
But after the brief educational slide, she focuses on the Street Team 08 project. This brings together 51 young citizen reporters [...]
Regular visitors to the homepage BBC News website were in for a surprise on Monday as they fired up their browsers. The site has had a facelift and feels rejuvenated.
Much of the navigation hasn’t changed but it is wider and uses white space so that stories have room to breathe. This is [...]
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