April 3, 2009 • 11:58 am 0
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.
Filed under: internet, journalism, newspapers, video , Christian Science Monitor
April 1, 2009 • 4:20 pm 0
It should come as no surprise that online journalists are more optimistic about the future of news than their counterparts in traditional media outlets.
But this optimism is tempered with a healthy dose of concerns about where journalism is going, according to the survey (PDF) of select members of the Online News Association (ONA) produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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.
Filed under: internet, journalism, new media, video , NVision 2009, ONA, Project for Excellence in Journalism
September 15, 2008 • 11:45 am 0
Robert Scoble streamed his keynote at last week’s Online News Association annual conference in DC live via a mobile phone.
It was a powerful demonstration of the new tools of communication he talked about.
Filed under: Web 2.0, blogging, journalism, video , ONA, ONA08, Robert Scoble
June 4, 2008 • 11:59 am 2
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.
(Shot on a Nokia N95)
Filed under: citizen journalism, internet, journalism, technology, video , cellphones, Grahamstown, Guy Berger, Rhodes University, South Africa
April 24, 2008 • 3:53 pm 5
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 Freedom of Information request.
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.
Filed under: BBC, accountability, broadcast, journalism, technology, video , BBC iPlayer, television
April 22, 2008 • 9:30 pm 1
Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals.
(Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy)
Filed under: social media, video , Billy Joel, Facebook, video, viral, YouTube
April 8, 2008 • 3:19 pm 1
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)
Filed under: journalism, video, video games , Ian Bogost, Online Journalism Symposium
April 6, 2008 • 6:54 am 0
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)
Filed under: journalism, newspapers, online, video , Jim Brady, Washington Post
April 5, 2008 • 10:11 am 1
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 a part of the future of news.
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Filed under: education, journalism, multimedia, video , Online Journalism Symposium
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