Keith McSpurren, founder of Cover It Live, on liveblogging and news

May 12, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: blogging, city, cover it live, internet, Journalism, keith mcspurren, liveblogging, liverpool daily post, rhys jones, seo, technology, the times

Liveblogging is increasingly being used by the media to cover events as they happen, and news consumers now expect almost instantaneous updates from reporters on the ground.
This trend means the thoughts of Keith McSpurren, founder of Cover It Live, as he talks at City University tomorrow will be well worth paying attention to.  His company [...]

JEEcamp 2009: New business models and local democracy

May 10, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: advertising, andy dickinson, business models, council newspapers, jeecamp, joanna geary, john thompson, Journalism, journalism.co.uk, local democracy, paul bradshaw

The final session of JEEcamp saw randomly selected panels from a list of attendees discuss crowdsourced questions, with the first being chaired by Joanna Geary, a web development editor at the Times.

New business models
John Thompson, founder of Journalism.co.uk, discussed the changing nature of journalism as traditional business models evolve and publishers struggle to keep up.
“I [...]

JEEcamp 2009: Hyper-local news and social media networking

May 10, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: advertising, business models, documentally, hyper local, james fryer, james hatts, jeecamp, journalissm, london se1, networking, our man inside, social media, soglos, sue greenwood, sweeble, twitter

After Kyle MacRae’s JEECamp keynote speech there were several breakout sessions on community management, new business models and tips for finding funding.  However, the main recurring theme was how the digital age has changed the nature of local media – with regional newspapers under threat it seems hyper-local projects are the great new hopes.
Hyper-local News
James [...]

JEEcamp 2009: Experimentation and entrepreneurship in journalism

May 10, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: audioboo, bbc, business models, entrepreneurship, experimentation, flickr, getty images, jeecamp, jeff jarvis, Journalism, kyle macrae, qik, scoopt, social media, twitter

Standing before a collection of social media nuts as they update twitter, write blogs, record Audioboos and film with Qik, it is clear Kyle MacRae is brave man.

The founder of Scoopt is talking at JEEcamp, an unconference organised to explore issues in the news and technology industries with a specific focus on experimentation and enterprise.  [...]