#newsrw: Follow the tweets at news:rewired
This liveblog will pick up the tweets tagged #newsrw at Friday’s news:rewired event. Follow here, or via news:rewired.com. #newsrw: news:rewired – the nouveau nicheSimilar Posts: #newsrw: How to put...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – local map widgets
Hyperlocal Google maps: mySociety has a simple step-by-step guide showing you how to display the most recent reports from its FixMyStreet service, on a local map widget. This can then be embedded on...
View ArticleNieman Journalism Lab: Clay Shirky’s ‘Cognitive Surplus’
Nieman Journalism Lab has a review and analysis of media theorist Clay Shirky’s latest book and concept. ‘Is creating and sharing always a more moral choice than consuming,’ asks reviewer Megan Garber....
View ArticleThe Media Blog: Mail falls for fake Steve Jobs tweet
Daily Mail managers might need to invest in some social media lessons for their journalists. If you haven’t already noted the paper’s impressive Twitter fail, in its research for a misguided article...
View ArticleBuzzMachine: ‘The importance of provenance’
Jeff Jarvis has a good piece on process, sourcing and trust, initiated by a Washington Post piece about the McCrystal case that cited unnamed complainers. …[E]ditors at the Washington Post and...
View ArticleMumbrella: Fairfax Digital responds to online video complaint
Fairfax Media, one of the main newspaper groups in Australia, has been taking external YouTube video and re-publishing it in their own media player, says Tim Burrowes of Australian marketing and media...
View ArticleOwni.fr: The mainstream press has a 17 year old rival
Owni, a French site specialising in digital journalism, reports on Federico Pignalbert, a 17 year old citizen journalist giving the mainstream press a run for their money. The media should be careful,...
View ArticleFinancial Times searches for subscription building ideas – via crowdsourcing
The Financial Times has commissioned South African company Idea Bounty to help it source new revenue-making ideas. The creative mind with the best idea will win US $5,000. As the tech site MemeBurn...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – multimedia kits for all budgets
The Innovative Interactivity site has made a list of recommended multimedia gear kits for “low, moderate, and high-end budgets”. Check out suggestions for cameras, audio recorders and editing software....
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – guide to pocket-size video cameras
The BBC College of Journalism has a guide to pocket-size video cameras: it includes an excellent two-minute training video with tips on how best to use a small camera device, whether it’s Flip, Kodak...
View ArticleRadio 5 Live’s Big Mexican Wave digital project
England fans might be desperately trying to sell on their World Cup tickets, but there’s still time to join a Mexican wave in support for the remaining teams playing in South Africa. BBC’s Radio 5 Live...
View ArticleWill Google use email contact lists to build a new social network?
Rumours of Google’s new social network are flying this week. The BNET Technology blog has some thoughtful speculation about its form here. What will it look like? What elements of existing Google...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – grouping Twitter conversations
Twitter: QuoteURL helps users group different Twitter updates from different people into a single page with a permanent URL. “So you can put it on your blog or send interesting conversations to...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – style guides for the web
Style: Yahoo has entered the style guide fray – a useful addition when deciding house style on web and new media terms in particular. Tipster: Judith Townend. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – human aggregation for your beat
Research: youedit.info is a useful aggregation service that groups links shared by its editors into topics. Promote yourself by becoming an editor of its journalism channel or follow another topic to...
View ArticleHow new Fourwhere maps plotting Foursquare, Yelp and Gowalla could be useful...
Fourwhere, a location-based search service, first launched a few months ago with data from geolocation gaming service Foursquare. Now it has developed its service to also include data from other...
View ArticleHow to fit the whole story in the headline
It’s unlikely we have the full attention of England’s journalists this afternoon, but here’s a twitpic of an article in Dublin’s Evening Herald from @DarraghMc. He calls it the ‘most insane headline of...
View ArticleBBC Sport: Journalist claims she was slapped by Algerian footballer
A journalist has claimed that she was slapped by the Algeria footballer Rafik Saifi, after his team was knocked out of the World Cup after losing to the US, the BBC reports. The journalist who works...
View ArticleRCFP: Media organisations get involved in ‘hot news’ case
Earlier this week we reported on a ‘hot news’ ruling from March 2010, in which Barclays, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley won a victory in the federal district court, resting on the “hot news”...
View ArticleDavid Higgerson: ‘The dangers of data talk’
While David Higgerson, head of multimedia at Trinity Mirror Regionals, welcomes the government’s open data initiatives, he raises a few concerns on his blog, asking how long it is going to flow, for...
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