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June’s Carnival of Journalism, a monthly collection of thoughts from the journalism blogosphere, focused on the issue of local.
The question was whether journalism is better the more local it is. The range of responses shows this is a rich area for debate.
I sat out the carnival as I was on [...]

The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients.
The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment.
Several projects - Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones - [...]

As the Online Journalism Symposium draws to a close, I wanted to draw attention to the keynote on Saturday by Ramón Salaverria.
He is a professor and vice chair at the School of Communication, Navarra University, Spain
In his address, he tackled the illusive topic of convergence. In his view, convergence is very different to integration. [...]

The afternoon session at the Online Journalism Symposium focuses on the shift from passive audiences to online communities.
Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com makes a compelling argument for engaging with audiences online.
The Post’s strategy is smart - it tries out a lot of different things, from blogs to live discussions to comments on [...]

Second panel at the Online Journaism Symposium focuses on the hybrid newsroom, bringing together Chris Lloyd, Assistant Managing Editor, of The Daily Telegrah, Rich Meislin, Associate Managing Editor/Internet Publishing of The New York Times, Almar Latour, Managing Editor of the WallStreetJournal.com, Guillermo Franco, Editor of ElTiempo.com in Colombia and Liza Gross, Managing Editor/Presentation and [...]

I’m off to Austin, Texas, for the 2008 International Online Journalism Symposium to present a paper on the BBC’s blogging strategy during the Saturday session.
There is a promising line-up and some 200 scholars, professional journalists and media executives have registered for the event. If you can’t make it, students will be live blogging the sessions [...]

Local news in the US reaches out to the ‘kids’ with Dance Party Friday, at least at Local 12 News in Cincinnati.

A student sent me this clip from the British comedy programme, Yes Prime Minister, on who reads the newspapers in Britain. It is very funny, especially because its analysis is spot on.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the State of the Media for 2008 is online.
It offers a comprehensive and thorough analysis of trends in the media and is required reading for anyone in journalism.
Digesting the report will take some time. But I wanted to highlight two of its major trends:

“News [...]

If you are heading into 2008 thinking, we must do more with social media, here is a useful primer to social news websites.
From the post:
Social news websites generally operate via a wisdom of the crowds principle; groups of individuals with different points of views are able to collectively determine the value or importance of content [...]