UPDATE: Mark Hamilton has been playing with the links and got it working in wordpress using a plugin that allows you to use Javascript in a post. He has a map up based on his favourite coffee shops. Great stuff.
If you are looking to get more control over your data then there is a great [...]

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I’m playing with Google maps at the moment. I need to get my head round it so that I can start to add it to my teaching in a coherent way.
I’m in the process of building a world map of newspaper video - a grand title I know. It’s an exercise in getting php, xml, [...]

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Browsing the Media Guardian feed gave me a sense of Déjà vu this morning.
“When the market turns and advertising returns, and it will, we believe we are better placed than anyone to benefit,”

So says Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, as she addressed shareholders this week.
In what the Guardian call a ‘spirited defence’ of [...]

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The NUJ have announced a commission on multi-media working.
NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear said: “This is a time of great change and opportunity for our members if the transition is handled well.
“However, there are challenges that the union will need to meet as working practices throughout the industry are affected by the rapid [...]

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So, he Guardian goes even more white space with it’s new front page.

First impressions – looks good. So what’s new?
According to Emily Bell:
The wider pages allow us to feature more news and different, dramatic layouts as the news agenda changes throughout the day - we will not be wedded to the fixed story and picture [...]

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A very simple point struck me today when reading through my feeds.
Journalists can’t multi-task.
Or at least that’s what people would have you believe.
A print journalist can’t do good video and write well
A TV journalist can’t get report on a story and show you the real heart of it.
Of course that’s bollocks.
A journalist can do what [...]

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On May 15th my department is hosting the 6th Journalism leaders forum on the topic of the Editor as entrepreneur.
This is a networking event and panel discussion with plenty of interesting people around.
The panel consists of
Eamonn Carey is the co-founder and director of the Dublin-based Random Thoughts Media which specialises in mobile and [...]

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Update: You can read an article about the French media going local on Craig’s ‘This French Life’ Site.
Craig McGinty sent me a great link, via eamil, to Fench newspaper Le Télégramme’s video efforts.

It’s a bulletin style presentation with a mix of personalities. It sufferes from the usual problems of the occasional bad framing and look [...]

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