Archive for the 'social media' Category
One of my research interests is blogs at the BBC, so I was fascinated by the tweets coming from Paul Bradshaw and Dan Bennett on the session on blogging at the internal Future of Journalism conference organised by the BBC’s College of Journalism.
Bradshaw outlined the BBC blogs rules: authenticity, single author, impartiality, comments, commitment [...]
CBC Vancouver is holding is holding an all-day workshop on social media. The aim is to “find out how some of us use it to make our jobs easier, and how others can learn to tap into its power”.
The CBC is tapping into the wealth of talent in Vancouver on social networking, with a [...]
Bartosz Wojdynski and Jessica Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looked at whether there are demographic predictors of online content creation in their presentation at the Convergence and Society conference.
Using data from Pew from 2005, they tried to work out whether it is true that young people tend to create more [...]
The crowd-powered site NowPublic.com, in partnership with the Vancouver Sun, has published its fourth MostPublic Index which identifies the web’s 20 most visible individuals in Vancouver.
I was pleased to find myself on the list at number 13, as well as my colleague at the UBC J-school, adjunct professor David Beers at 19, and my [...]
The Online News Association conference held in Washington DC brought together some of the brightest minds in digital journalism.
So as a journalism educator, I took advantage of the opportunity to pose the question to editors, professors and entrepreneurs - what do they want from journalism graduates?
The short video clips have been posted on PBS Mediashift. [...]
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Robert Scoble sets the theme for his keynote at the Online News Association conference in DC by doing something that wasn’t possible a year ago - video streaming his talk live via a mobile phone.
This changes journalism, he argues, as people can send questions as an interview takes place live.
Scoble [...]
A piece on J-Source lays into NowPublic for reproducing content from mainstream media. Enticingly titled, The Revolution will be Plagarised, it argues that the citizens are failing us at NowPublic.
As of 2 p.m., Sept. 11, nearly 60 per cent of the stories in the citizen-journalism site’s Canadian Election section consist of quoted material from [...]
Canada is in the throes of a general election, with just a few weeks of campaigning before voting on October 14th.
Here at the UBC School of Journalism, we spent some time discussing what we could contribute to the media coverage.
The big national papers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post both have extensive in-depth [...]
On Saturday, I was part of a stimulating panel at the AEJMC annual conference in Chicago discussing the digital dilemmas raised by social media. My contribution focused on how journalists use social networking sites as part of the newsgathering process and publish material which users may consider private.
The text of my talk is available after [...]
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The attitude of two Chicago news sites to comments illustrates some of the differences between new and old media.
At a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on handling offensive comments, there were speakers from the Chicago Tribune newspaper’s website and from the online newspaper ChiTownDailyNews.org.
At the Tribune, registration is required to leave a [...]
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- 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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