I started following BreakingNewsOn on Twitter a long time ago and I am still a follower. Largely because it does what it says on the tin – it posts tweets summarising breaking news from around the world, generally well before local media outlets pick it up. Like many people, until yesterday I didn’t realise that [...]
Friday, May 22, 2009
A couple of nice points here from Emily Bell's lecture to University College Falmouth. Emily is director of digital content at Guardian News and Media.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Clay Shirky does a nice job exploring the biggest challenge currently facing news companies: that for the most part they are populated with people unaware of how profoundly the internet changes everything. Most people working in news organisations think their company will continue in roughly the same form but will publish a website as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish a website and a mobile site and to social media sites as well as a newspaper. Or will continue in the same form and publish everywhere online and to a Kindle instead of a newspaper.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Jack Shafer has a nice piece on Slate looking at how news companies have adapted to technology over the years. Referring to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, Jack notes how newspapers in the US were quick to buy up radio licences when radio started making a splash, dabbled in news by fax and something called Videotex. Then came the doomed proprietary online news systems.
Friday, November 7, 2008
From Everything is Miscellaneous: The ecology of news works like this: Someone posts a bit of news on some site. That snippet may well come from a mainstream source, or it may not. But like a greasy crumb dropped on the sidewalk, it’s instantly swarmed by ants. The ants — that’s you and me, sister — point at it, link to it, explain it, deny it, make fun of it, connect it with something else, and send it or what we’ve made of it around the world.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Another piece of nostalgia from the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism 1967. Pneumatic tubes as a story delivery system within newsrooms were before my time but what a shame, they look cracking.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I'm interested to see how news agencies evolve now that there's nothing to stop news companies from joining forces by setting up websites to share copy amongst themselves. SiliconAlleyInsider is keeping an eye on AP (Associated Press) in the US, whose recent fee-structure shake-up has created considerable unease among its users. It cites an Editor & Publisher report about the most recent user to give notice.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Steve Outing has written a good post about people wanting to upload and share 'news' but not necessarily with news or citizen journalist websites. I’ve started to realize that news organizations would be wise to focus less on creating their own citJ platforms and hoping someone will post something, and more on leveraging the social networks where people already are posting news. My previous post about Twitter touches on this; that micro-blogging service contains (amid all the personal fluff) real news that people are witnessing.
Monday, May 12, 2008
I heard about the 7.8 earthquake in China's Sichuan province about five hours ago via a colleague on Twitter and retweeted it immediately. Little was known then. I went out for a few hours and when I got back it was being tweeted by BreakingNewsOn with the news that 900 children were reported buried and at least 109 people killed.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
It's not just me, then. I see Jeff Jarvis is also getting annoyed with the way news companies are dumping multiple headlines on Twitter in big batches, with the result that they fill out people's Twitter boxes.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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