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 [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
I’m launching an online marketplace shortly where you can sell and buy news features, profiles, reviews and other stories. It’s called All About The Story and the idea is to use the web to make it easier for writers to sell their stories, test the market for new kinds of storytelling, and to make it easy [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I was very interested to hear from Chinese blogger and social media juggernaut Isaac Mao (@isaac) earlier today. Mao is in NZ for a few days thanks to support from the Asia NZ Foundation. He’s doing a flying tour of journalism schools, press interviews and meet and greets. It was great to be able to host [...]
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I like this post by John Longhurst on the Canadian Journalism Project. He says journalists should be interviewed themselves from time to time, so they know what it’s like. And that the interview should be published, so they know what it’s like to have a stranger’s account of themselves on public display. I agree. I’ve been interviewed [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
Paul Bradshaw does a very nice job here making a couple of simple points, simply. Making Money from content online View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
An interesting observation from Spot.us founder David Cohn in this Nieman Lab video interview - readers will pay for stories that explain how things work in their community, but not for think pieces. Spot.us works by inviting members of its community to suggest and respond to story ideas and then to pay for those which they most want [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
So the Fieldays Exhibitor is done and dusted for another year. Phew. Here are the front pages: You can see some of the stories at our new website, mediarts.net.nz, which aims to showcase the work of students of Wintec’s School of Media Arts along with school events and some of the inspiring work our staff exhibit (more [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Paul Bradshaw posted a primer a while back on how the web has changed the economics of news. It’s a good read if you’re new to thinking about new media business models but also well worth reading as a refresher. From the post: 1. Atomisation of news consumption In the physical world news came as a generic package. You [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I’m two days into production of a four-day daily newspaper produced by Wintec journalism, design and photography students. It’s an awesome process to transform a space set up for teaching into a fully fledged newsroom for four days a year. We don’t have much kit. Content management system? Pah! say the beancounters to that. So we jack [...]
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