The problems at Backfence, the series of local “citizen journalism” sites in the US which has cut two-thirds of its 18-strong staff, make the future of this brave experiment look doubtful. Amy Gahran at Poynter has a good analysis.
Less than a year ago Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media, handed over his Bayosphere experiment [...]
Yahoo’s choice of Mr Paparazzi as the best UK entertainment website in its 2006 Finds awards suggests there is a way to make money out of “citizen journalism” or whatever you choose to call it.
The site is a spin-off from the Big Pictures business of Darryn Lyons who got a lot of free publicity from [...]
Mobile phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution has brought to the fore on the first day on 2007 the debate about how far availability on the internet should influence what is shown by mainstream media.
Writing in the Guardian about coverage of the execution on CNN and Fox News, Dan Glaister said :
But neither could keep [...]
While other newspapers have been arguing about web first policies for news, the Wall Street Journal has been planning to go a step further: news on the web only.
The announcement of the redesign which will hit the news-stands on January 2 reveals a paper which will cut the news content substantially. The paper itself will [...]
From today sending a picture to Yahoo News could lead to world wide distribution to mainstream media by Reuters. Stills and video can be submitted to You Witness pages at both Yahoo and the news agency.
Material will be uploaded to Flickr from where Yahoo will select material to be used in its news service [...]
An email this afternoon from Norwegian blogger Kristine Lowe: “Seems I wrote about English Aftenposten’s obsession with elks etc on the wrong day, today one of the lead stories is “Horny moose kills two calves“.
Just enjoy the headline. If you want the context of the email, Kristine blogged on elk stories and my search for [...]
The government is set to slash the licence fee rises the BBC wants to below the rate of inflation and have a review half way through the new charter, putting the broadcaster on a political leash, according to the front page of the Observer today.
Already the BBC has scaled down its 2.3% a year above [...]
A big thank you to the students on the postgraduate diploma in journalism studies at Cardiff for putting Wordblog at the top of their “blog of the week” list today. Thanks also to Hannah from Cardiff for her comment on my post about convergency and journalism training.
I really do appreciate contributions from students who often [...]
Unsurprisingly, Dean Baquet announced to staff at the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he had been forced to resign by owners, the Tribune Company, over his refusal to cut editorial staff. He stood on his desk to tell journalists:
I don’t want to dwell on the last month. I want to think broader. I [...]
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 [...]
