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Guy Berger, head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, was awarded a $630,000 Knight News Challenge grant for the News is Coming project. As he explains, the aim is to have local news reports disseminated through cellphones to help connect an all-black township in South Africa [...]

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 [...]

Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals.

(Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy)

Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of Persuasive Games, on the challenges of making news games for the media.

(Shot on a Nokia N95 at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin)

I caught up with Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com during one of the lunch break at this weekend’s Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, to find out what was happening at the news website:

(Shot on a Nokia N95)

One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online.
Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them as [...]

The BBC News website is gearing up to unveil its new look which will include wider pages and bigger images, according to website editor Steve Herrmann.
The current look dates back to 2003 and it is showing its age. After all, Internet time moves at a faster pace than regular time.
But one of the most [...]

The British comedy duo of Mitchell and Webb make fun of the current trend towards interactivity and user-generated content by broadcasters such as the BBC. The clip is from their BBC show, That Mitchell and Webb Look:

The BBC has finally started to roll out the use of embedded video in Flash, after a successful trial last year.
The trial found, unsurprisingly, that people liked having the video as an embedded Flash file in story pages.
One of the first stories to use the new player was a behind the scenes [...]

An interesting take on the US presidential elections produced by my friend Erica Rowell and Michele Chivu, reminiscence in style of The Washington Post’s OnBeing project.