A few things that have caught my attention in recent weeks, in no particular order. 1. I see curation as a big part of journalism online, so I bookmarked this piece from Mike Masnick on Techdirt (and the Google Newsroom piece referred to here). Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
This could turn out to be interesting. In a post on the Guardian’s Organ Grinder blog the editor of Wikileaks Julian Assange talks about how Iceland could become a journalism haven. I’m excited about what is happening in Iceland, which has started to see the world in a new way after its mini-revolution a year ago. Over [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
For the past few months I’ve been working to make the National Diploma in Journalism, a New Zealand industry standard qualification, available for online study through Wintec. It’s a big project which has demanded a lot of work by a core group of people and which has also involved a lot of imagining – how [...]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
I wrote a few weeks ago to say that I was launching an online marketplace for news features and other stories. It’s called All About The Story, it’s in beta and it’s off to a great start. I said I’d write more about why we’re doing it and the people behind it. I can’t fit all [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
A few things that crossed my radar recently. A rant about the failings of tech news and the (lack of) incentives causing it. From louisgray.com. I believe “fast food news” also can refer to the mass hysteria over making sure every site posts the news that a major browser or a major operating system has issued a [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Axel Springer in Germany likes Google and wants to build a one-click option for readers to pay for news: Instead of separate pay walls around individual newspaper Web sites, Mr. [Christoph] Keese [Springer’s head of public affairs] wants publishers and Internet companies to work together to create a “one-click marketplace solution” for their online content. [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
I was struck the other day by the difference a good headline can make in a news email bulletin. Here’s a few from from my inbox in the past couple of days: I subscribe to more news than I can handle and am often in a hurry or tired when I scroll through these. I’ve noticed [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
I like this post on Wired Journalists about three journalism graduates in Philadelphia who didn’t find work straightaway so set up a local tech news service called Technically Philly. We spent the next few months building connections, covering events and interviewing community leaders to serve a population that, until now, was lucky to receive a write-up [...]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the digital [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Jay Rosen, journalism teacher at NYU and long-time blogger on new media, has collected a list of ways news production can be subsidised. He differentiates between business models and subsidies because he notes that news production has always been subsidised in one way or another, whether by a wealthy owner or advertisers. Here are the first [...]
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