Monthly Archives: March 2008

There’s something wrong with this picture

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008
On a similar tack to yesterday's post about when a story is 'finished' enough to go online, I was reminded while planning a sub-editing lecture recently of how lopsided today's newsrooms are when it comes to handling stories for web and print. The image shown is a rough snapshot of how many pairs of hands various kinds of stories might pass through in your average newsroom - from reporter through chief reporter, news editor, web editor, chief sub-editor, page layout, sub-editor, check sub, proofreader, editor, edition controller and so on.
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BBC’s mobile update

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008
I meant to link to this a while back. For those of you interested in mobile developments, check out the BBC's latest offering of the mobile version of bbc.co.uk.
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Finished? No, it’s the story so far

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008
Shane Richmond (the Telegraph's Communities Editor) does a good job revisiting the issue of what 'finished' looks like in the fast-paced world of digital publishing. In print, a story wasn't published until it was 'finished': written, edited, edited again, sub-edited, sub-edited again, proofread and so on. Only then did we hit 'send' and hand it over to the printers - at around 9.30pm, the deadline for the first edition of a daily newspaper.
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Semantic markup – a public sector debut

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008
I've been reading Jason Ryan's blog post about experimenting with the use of semantic mark-up in government press releases. I think it's well worth a read for two reasons: one, he does a great job explaining it in simple terms, and two because it's a development that's nice to see in NZ and worth watching.
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PA chooses open source

By Julie Starr | Published: March 21, 2008
"We were being asked to do things that we just couldn't bend the system any further to do." Sound familiar? That's PA's IT development manager Paul Berman talking to Silicon.com about the company's decision to use an open source platform, Nuxeo, to build a better content management system.
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