The Christian Science Monitor has produced a video to explain its mission now that it has abandoned a daily print product in favour of a shift to the web and a new print weekly.
It should come as no surprise that online journalists are more optimistic about the future of news than their counterparts in traditional media outlets.
The online professionals believe that the Internet is changing the fundamental values of journalism, but more often than not for the worse. Still, they are confident that online news will find a way of making money.
Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism presented the results at the NVision 2009 conference.
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 with the white population living in the urban center.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time the BBC has put an official figure on the cost of the iPlayer.
The reply from the BBC (PDF) provides some details on the development of the iPlayer:
The basic BBC iPlayer (then called myBBCplayer) trial completed in June 2006. During June 2006 – November 2006 the BBC iPlayer Beta was developed with very limited functionality & user access. On November 14th 2006 BBC launched a limited user access version. Then during November 2006 to July 2007 the BBC developed the beta version of the BBC iPlayer with a walled garden access. In July 27 2007 the BBC iPlayer Beta was aunched.
This timeline ignores the earlier work that went into the project when it was known as the integrated Media Player and tested by several thousand people. And some estimates have put the cost of the four-year project at around £72m.
The information was obtained via the WhatDoTheyKnow site, which offers an easy way to submit Freedom of Information requests in the UK.
It is the brainchild of the pioneering e-democracy group, MySociety. It is in beta but it offers a powerful tool to seek answers from the British authorities.
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.
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:
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.
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 welcomed changes will be the use of Flash embedded video, rather than pop-ups in Real or Windows Media format. This is already been used on some stories, and it is working. Herrmann writes:
Early signs suggest that on those stories where we’ve embedded the video in a story, as opposed to providing the link to a pop-up player as we’ve done up to now, the video gets about ten times more usage than before. So it looks like it’s working well so far.
What will be interesting to see if the video offered is more than recycled TV pieces. The video should complement and enhance existing stories, rather than duplicating them, and this means investing in bespoke for the website.
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