The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look first to blogs and other forms of participatory media for first hand accounts of emerging stories before turning to the mainstream media. Of course mainstream… Continue Reading
One of the livejournal blogs I found yesterday and linked to from here contains the account of Kate, written by her friend Paul, and tells how a gunman entered her classroom at Norris Hall and began shooting. After the gunman… Continue Reading
I’ve been invited to speak, along with my BBC Manchester Blog colleague Richard Fair, at the 6th Journalism Leaders Forum will take place at the University of Central Lancashire on the 15th of May, 2007. According to the website, “The… Continue Reading
For months I’ve been proactively trying to cut down on the number of RSS feeds I’m subscribed to because, these days, I rarely get a chance to check more than a dozen of them each day anyway. There’s something about… Continue Reading
Yesterday, a journalism student wrote to ask: Do you feel blogging is a valid form of journalism? I responded with: Journalism and blogging need not be seperate activities undertaken by separate people and I certainly don’t believe that journalism is… Continue Reading
Back in February I found myself wondering outloud when flickr would position itself as a photo agency. Today the NY Times reports (Thanks Joe!) that Yahoo and Reuters have joined forces to launch a new “citizen journalism” service tomorrow, with… Continue Reading
If a dispute between The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and the publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News isn’t settled by midnight tonight, the union has announced that instead of simply manning picket lines, members will immediately… Continue Reading
Reuters recent investment of USD $7 million in blog syndication service Pluck is already bearing fruit, with the launch of “related postings” from blogs appearing alongside (actually at the bottom of) Reuters own Health, Technology and Entertainment content. Dean Wright,… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked “What’s the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?“. That debate drew comment from The Guardian’s Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph’s… Continue Reading
In Saturday’s Weekend supplement, The Guardian’s John Lanchester tried to get to grips with “web 2.0” and met with some of it’s movers and shakers. Some of those interviews have been published as podcasts but, sadly, there isn’t a full… Continue Reading