Archive for the 'online' Category
The issue over the use of photos of Ashley Alexandra Dupre taken from social networking sites like MySpace has just taken another twist.
Her court-appointed attorney, Kelley Drye’s Don D. Buchwald, has attacked the media for invading his client’s privacy.
The press release (PDF) from the attorney says the alleged call girl was “thrust into the public [...]
The schedule for the forthcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism is now available online and it has a great range of speakers.
The conference, held 4-5 April at the University of Texas at Austin, is unique in bringing both professionals and academics to discuss where journalism is going. But it also stands out for its [...]
The new year has inspired a couple of postings of how the news industry needs to change. Steve Outing, writing in Editor and Publisher, argues that the culture of newsrooms need to radically change:
As you enter 2008, I urge you to focus on cultural change within your newsroom. Get everyone involved in the task of [...]
Is it worth doing a master’s degree in journalism? Apparently, it is worth it, at least financially:
As Mindy McAdams notes in a post on the job outlook for journalism graduates:
New U.S. graduates with a bachelor’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $30,000, according to a survey of spring [...]
Canadian newspaper execs are slightly more upbeat than their US counterparts about the ad revenues in the coming year.
A report by Toronto-based Kubas Consultants found that “”Canadian newspapers, however, may be the exception, due to their distinctly optimistic outlook on ad revenues. The economy may be better north of the border, but not that [...]
Everybody loves online quizzes. Click a few buttons, hit return and get your answers. Unless, that is, you are doing a quiz on The Guardian.
It has an enticing quiz entitled “Test your geek credentials“.
However, the quiz is a disappointment, not because of the content but because it is a static, traditional [...]
I wanted to share our experiences at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism in creating a student journalism website on a tight budget. As most journalism educators will know, there are often few resources or the technical support to develop multimedia websites.
TheThunderbird.ca showcases the work of the students on the core Multiplatform Journalism [...]
The NUJ has published its report on multimedia working in the UK, looking at impact of new technologies on journalists.
Among its key conclusions is that:
The quality of journalism is being threatened in the multimedia age because of the increasing demands placed on reporters, who are working longer hours and taking on more responsibility for [...]
Here is the video of my keynote, Reimagining Science Journalism, at Future Directions in Science Journalism Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November, hosted by the UBC School of Journalism.
The keynote is in two chunks:
Part I:
Part II:
Lifehacker has put together a useful, but somewhat perturbing, guide on how to track people down online.
Among the sites mentioned are Pipl which digs up information about a person Google often misses, Wink which searches social networking sites and ZoomInfo which aggregates professional information.
Try it for yourself. You may be surprised by how much of [...]
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Links
- Andy Dickinson
- Charlotte-Anne Lucas
- Cyberjournalist.net
- Hackademic
- Innovation in College Media
- Inside the CBC
- J-Source
- Journalism.co.uk
- Kirk LaPointe’s TheMediaManager.com
- Multimedia Shooter
- Newslab.ca
- Online Journalism Review
- Pressthink
- RConversation
- Ricochet: Chrys Wu
- Sacred Facts
- Sue Robinson’s Mediatrope
- Teaching Online Journalism
- TheThunderbird.ca
- UBC School of Journalism
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Twitter updates- Hermida: Blog post: links for 2008-12-01: Canwest launches 10 redesigned websites | NewspaperBlog.. http://tinyurl.com/6bphrh December 2, 2008
- Hermida: Decided it was time to post to NowPublic.com http://is.gd/9FjT December 1, 2008
- Hermida: Ian Hanomansing wins Gemini for Best News Anchor for his work on CBC News at Six in Vancouver http://tinyurl.com/5vssay December 1, 2008
- Hermida: Fleetwood Mac was playing earlier in a shop I went into. ♫ http://blip.fm/~y9v6 December 1, 2008
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- MSM: Journalism news
- JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB Murdoch, explained by Newser's Michael Wolff - MarketWatch
- Huffington financing hailed as Web milestone - Financial Post
- The purpose of journalism remains - if there are journalists to do ... - Southtown Star
- Mumbai news fished from Twitter’s rapids - Los Angeles Times
- Networking News - American Journalism Review
- HPU Journalism Professor Presents Paper At San Diego Conference - High Point University
- Boiling It Down - American Journalism Review
- ComScore: Black Friday e-commerce hits $534 million - CNET News
- The Fives: The death of journalism, troubled times at the Capitol ... - Rapid City Journal
- Television Company, Belo Corp. (BLC), to Present at UBS Global ... - MarketWatch
- Blogs: Journalism news
- BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Journalism learns to share
- Virginia Heffernan: The Sarah Palin of Journalism : Edward ...
- First Draft: While We're On The Subject Of Journalism
- Jobs in United Arab Emirates - Dubai : Journalism Faculty | Bayt.com
- A Troubled Marriage: Journalism and Blogging | Black Web 2.0
- Journalism 2.0 » News organizations as ‘distributed idea engines’
- Feedback Army: Test out your web ideas for seven bucks » Nieman ...
- ‘Creative’ Economics vs. Journalism and the Public Trust | Adrian ...
- The Problem with Games Journalism: Part One | Snappy Gamer
- Journalism links and opportunities for Dec. 1
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