The danger for some newspapers in crafting video strategy is that to produce video they are rushing to replicate a TV model of production and in some cases presentation: Video plus legacy…. Newspapers need to start thinking like entreprenuers, Kevin Anderson writes.
The blogs editor of the Guardian is commenting on CBS’s [...]
Earlier this month I described the web coverage of the the Scottish, Welsh and local elections as “dismal“. If I dreamed of what Spanish newspapers would do for their provincial and municipal elections on May 27 I would have been much harsher.
For a lesson in how to cover elections on newspaper websites go to [...]
It is more than a week since Sue Charman’s report, The changing role of Journalists in a word where everyone can publish, and I realise I have written nothing about one of the best contributions to the debate.
While pointing out, in the report for the Freedom of Expression Project, that there are objections to [...]
The BBC is trying out embedded Flash video on its news site and a very welcome development it is. One of the items is a report on a Gloucestershire family that tried out all the latest new media gizmos but decided they would wait until there was better content.
Alfred Hermida who was involved in setting [...]
Replacement of the BBC’s governors with the BBC Trust which is also the regulator is blamed for the BBC falling behind in its bid to lead the new media revolution, according to Bobbie Johnson’s lead story in Media Guardian today. He writes:
With the Trust now the arbiter of which projects get the go-ahead - and [...]
Why is it that media.guardian.co.uk’s link to the content of the paper’s Monday media page is always a week old on Monday mornings? Is it that they want media types to buy the paper? That would be understandable but it is also frustrating.
It leaves me with the chore of doing a search for the the [...]
It probably takes a non-journalist to even think of the possibility of covering city hall from 8,000 miles away. Yet that is what James McPherson, founder, editor and publisher of Pasadena Now has done.
The very idea of outsourcing local reporting to India sent a shudder through me. But what is the real objection? Council meetings [...]
Bill Gates has been looking at the fairly near future of the media and his prognosis is equally bad for scheduled broadcasting and print on paper. Speaking to the the Microsoft Strategic Account Summit this week he forecast that the “transition point” for the move from paper to electronic reading would come in the next [...]
My Telegraph has gone live this week and it is looking like one of the most interesting ideas around in developing newspaper communities. Registered readers have their own blog, a personal page for saving articles and collating comments, and an easier way of posting comments on Telegraph blogs.
Shane Richmond, the communities editor, is promising more [...]
Guardian Unlimited’s new design emerged on its front page this morning after testing in the travel section. Sensibly they are making the change gradually to the design with six column grid which fits neatly on a 17 inch monitor.
The Guardian has been later than most in moving to take advantage of larger monitors and higher [...]
