Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

The fallout surrounding the smear emails between Damien McBride and Derek Draper has seen much media attention being paid to the role played by Paul Staines and his Guido Fawkes blog.  However some commentary has cast this shameful ploy, which was designed for the anonoymity of the internet, as problematic for politics and society.
‘Once the [...]

This post was originally published at Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists.
So there is to be more soul-searching about the lack of prospects for journalism graduates after our national news agency joined the long list of companies to cancel their trainee scheme.  I found out the Press Association’s decision on twitter thanks to a fellow applicant but [...]

This post was originally published at onlinejournalismblog.com.
There are billions of pages of unsorted and unclassified information online, which make up millions of terabytes of data with almost no organisation. It is not necessarily true that some of this information is valuable whilst some is worthless, that’s just a judgement for who desires it. At the [...]

There he sat, flanked by four of the finest financial minds our nation has to offer, but overshadowing them all. In fact he hardly let them get a word in edgeways. Robert Peston was such a big draw his esteemed journalistic colleagues were lucky to have the privilege of a seat near his [...]

Economic crisis and financial mismanagement at some of the world’s most prestigious print companies has helped put their entire model of media obselete ownership at risk. Tribune, publisher of some of the most influential newspapers in America, has filed for bankruptcy. The value of British newspaper companies has plummeted. Even the venerable [...]

So it’s official then, of my City coursemates, Ali and I are twice as good as anyone else. It also turns out there’s not much between Matt, Lara, Kat, and Nathan. Coming last is Shona, but that is not much of a surprise.
Now although I wish I was talking about journalistic ability, surprisingly I’m [...]