New Zealand’s Online Media Standards Authority opened for business from Monday July 1, 2013. The authority hears complaints from members of the public about any news and current affairs content published online by its members that the person complaining believes breaches the OMSA’s standards. The standards include Accuracy, Balance, Fairness, Discrimination, Privacy and Responsibility. Its founding members were: …
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I find this a really interesting idea. Kon*Fab has won Knight Foundation Prototype Fund money to build an app that lets you see what stories people sitting near you are tweeting. Let’s say you’re … in the coffee shop — if you opened up Kon*Fab, the app will present you with a selection of stories …
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Below are the main points highlighted in a Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project survey of US teachers about How Teens Do Research in the Digital World. Access a wider range of resources Virtually all (99%) AP and NWP teachers in this study agree with the notion that “the internet enables students to access a …
A couple of takeaways from Adrienne LaFrance’s piece on Nieman Lab about Upworthy. The first is that “online packaging and distribution are as important as having quality content in the first place”. But many news organizations still appear to treat social packaging and distribution as an afterthought. You spend days reporting and writing a story, …
Nice post from Mark Armstrong, of Longreads, arguing that we can raise the value of our content if we let people take it with them and consume it when they’re ready – whether that’s right now, on the couch tonight, during a flight next week, or in a month’s time. Let people take content with …
The way we used to roll in publishing… Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.
We’re closing allabouthestory down at the end of February 2012, and have written to our members to tell them so. My thanks to those of you who’ve sent messages of support. Very much appreciated. I don’t propose writing an in-depth post about the decision since it’s a fairly straightforward one. We said at the beginning that …
A couple of persuasive examples of the power of crowdsourcing in journalism from Guardian Special Projects Editor Paul Lewis. He talks about how Twitter and other social media helped him find witnesses to the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during riots in London and track down passengers on the aircraft Jimmy Mubenga died on …
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We can’t all be the New York Times or the Guardian. Many smaller newspaper newsrooms are still grappling with the basics of how to get their websites moving given a small staff, lack of digital expertise and uncertainty over revenue opportunities. Sometimes there’s no real will among managers for the task. But even when there …
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Great bullshit reporting video from The Onion (Via @mikeriversdale) and an 86-year-old’s rage comic. 1. Bullshit reporting 2. An 86-year-old’s life in a rage comic
