Archive for the 'video' Category
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.
The BBC’s Darren Waters has written about the pros and cons of using a mobile phone as a reporting tool on the dot.life blog.
He has been using a Nokia N95 during a reporting trip to California to test the limits of what is possible with these kind of devices.
Overall, as I too have [...]
I caught up with Clive Thompson after his talk at the Knight Science Journalism symposium and asked him about his love of blogging.
His blog is Collision Detection.
(Shot on a Nokia N95)
This is probably the best ever song about a news site, Digg, and likely the envy of mainstream news outlets:
According to TechCrunch, Kina Grannis, the girl behind the online hit “Digg Song” (video above) has been approached by a record company interested in discussing a record deal.
Technorati Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis
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News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way.
In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in [...]
It’s the time of the year when news editors will be thinking about their priorities for the coming year. For online news sites, is it going to be video, user-generated content or social media?
For at least one UK newspaper website, The Telegraph, 2008 is going to be all about video. Edward Roussel, the digital [...]
The BBC has joined with other UK broadcasters to offer a commercial portal to British television shows.
The on-demand service, under the working title of Kangaroo, brings together the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
All three broadcasters already offer programmes over the Internet but only in the UK. This international venture reflects the strength of British broadcasting.
Ashley [...]
The BBC announced plans to put pre-roll ads on its broadband news video a few months back. For a few weeks, all the ads were for other BBC programmes.
But now, the first commercial ads have appeared on the video. A commercial for Delta Airlines is on video about Bush’s comments on the Armenian [...]
Today was the first day of our redesigned core course at the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver. Entitled Multiplatform Journalism, it seeks to instruct the students in the key intellectual and practical skills they will need to operate as a professional journalist in a multimedia industry.
The course aims to move away from training [...]
Canadians are spending more time online and less time watching television, finds the CRTC’s annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report.
This is hardly surprising, given that the 70% of Canadian homes are now online, up by 6% from the previous year. And high-speed access is also on the increase, rising from 36% to 60% over [...]

