Who are the “new establishment” of online journalism in Britain? Who are the people shaping the latest developments in bringing journalism to new digital platforms?

The New Media Establishment - 50 people shaping online journalism according to the Press Gazette
As much of an influential list for the digital content providers would be the Guardian Weekend article [...]

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The future of newspaper (now a pay-to-read)
The age of podcasts, war-zone bloggers, and countless other online information sources presents newspapers with arguably their biggest challenge ever. But how to react? Is print heading for obsolescence? Or can it re-invent itself and reach out to a generation brought up looking at screens? Leading media figures tell Ian [...]

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The Society of Editors conference has thrown up some interesting stuff. I was drawn to some comments made by the NCTJ’s Joanne Butcher in a session called The New Journalist  
“Some people love to think the NCTJ is clinging on to the old-fashioned, out-dated and out-moded skills that they like to think shorthand, government, court reporting and so on [...]

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The BJTC and the NCTJ, two of the UK’s biggest journalism accreditation organisations, have announced that they are talking about possible co-operation on new courses and accreditation.(BJTC via Andrew Grant-Adamson’s Wordblog)
These include the organisation of a journalism skills summit early next year, the development of a new video journalism qualification, development of joint accreditation criteria [...]

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Jeff Jarvis continues to provide a daily fix of sensible and interesting comment  on BuzzMachine.
What disturbs me most is not the news, but the news industry’s reaction. Where we should be seeing aggressive, strategic leaps into the future, we instead hear the mournful braying of editorial Eeyores.
That’s a typically bullish quote from his Guardian article expressing [...]

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Behind the times as usual, I have been catching up with the concept of crowdsourcing.
The phrase was coined by Jeff Howe. I’m a contributing editor to Wired Magazine in an article published earlier this year. It’s picked up an amazing amount of momentum in a short space of time. As Howe comments on his crowdsourcing [...]

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Addition: Journalism.co.uk run an interview with the creator of NewsSniffer John Leach 
Here is an interesting site (via the BBC Editor blog)
NewsSniffer scans the content of the BBC (and a few others) to
“…monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias.”
One service it offers is Revisionista which
“…monitors news websites and detects when articles change. The versions are viewable and [...]

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Technology blog Techcrunch has reported that
News search engine Topix.net has announced that has taken $15 million in additional funding from three large media companies, Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy. The company raised a round about 18 months ago for an undisclosed sum that was only said to be under $5 million. That funding came from Tribune, [...]

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