The black man with a gold earring and the man with the camera make a US road movie. Gary Younge and Dan Chung have shown us that newspaper video works and on a different level from broadcast TV. The new dimension is intimacy.
This is cheap TV but not cheap journalism. The two Guardian men are [...]
Suspension of the Journalists’ strike at the Telegraph which had been planned for next week must be welcome for both sides. The Press Gazette reports that compulsory imposition of new rotas which include Saturday working will also be suspended. Any journalists volunteering for more flexible working patterns in the new integrated newsroom will receive £5,000.
There [...]
Two assurances from BBC director general Mark Thompson may help to reduce the fears among regional newspapers of the BBC’s local TV plans. Speaking at the Society of Editors conference in Glasgow yesterday he said the scheme, which has been described as “ultra-local”, would not be “hyper-local”.
Sounds like playing with words but he explained the [...]
The announcement that the Broadcast Journalism Training Council and the National Council for the Training of Journalists have committed themselves to working closely together is welcome.
As they say, in their joint statement this afternoon, “New technology and booming new media platforms are transforming newsrooms and increasing the demand for multi-skilled, multi-media journalists.”
Tom Beesley, BJTC Chairman, [...]
In a move that makes the Telegraph’s new integrated newsroom look like a toe in the water, Gannett in the US has changed its newsrooms into what it rather inelegantly calls “information centers”.
Gannett publishes USA Today and 90 other daily newspapers. In the UK it owns Newsquest publishers of 18 dailies from the Herald in [...]
Soundslides is unusual among computer programs — it is designed to be used by journalists although the makers say others uses may be found. It does just one job which is putting together still image and audio stories for the web.
Seeing increasing numbers of stories made with it on news sites, I decided to give [...]
This morning Roy Greenslade recorded in his Guardian blog that the San Jose Mercury is to cut 40 editorial jobs. In the main paper there was a report that the Freedom of Information Commissioner needs extra funds to cope with backlog of appeals against government bodies that have refused to release information.
On the face of [...]
Nearly a month ago when Jeff Jarvis suggested in a post on his Buzzmachine blog headed “The death of the editorialist” that leader writers were not needed in an “age of open media”, I disagreed with him. Today he returns to the subject in his New Media column in Media Guardian.
He writes:
In this age [...]
Martin Newland who resigned as editor of The Daily Telegraph a year ago writes in today’s Media Guardian about the formidable task facing the paper. The new editor, Will Lewis, he says must “recalibrate the Telegraph’s editorial ethos - to make it his own, rather than let it endure as a cobbled together product of [...]
A steady head in a crisis has always been a valuable asset for a reporter but the latest technology at the Plymouth Evening Herald demands it. Their defence correspondent Tristan Nichols has been testing a miniature camera strapped to his head for reporting a military exercise.
He hopes to take it to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province later [...]
