Greenslade reports on the growing confidence of the regional media in the digital arena
Greenslade reports on the growing confidence of the regional media in the digital arena
(tags: greenslade regional newspaper video journalism)

Multimedia Meets Radio: Why Kate Adie hates blogs
Via Martin Stabe
(tags: journalism bloggers bbc blogging blogs media)

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Readers of England’s Daily Mail are generally acknowledged to be the dumbest segment of semi-literate Britons, narrowly pipping Sun readers at the post. But, if this commercial for the paper’s Sunday edition is any indication, they’re also a group deeply divided along gender lines. The men want Diddy, the women want Vogue. We bemoan the [...]

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Update: Neil Benson responds in more detail to why he thought the podcast was bobbins and I respond.
I spent a very pleasant few days in Falmouth last week at an AJE conference on convergence. Amongst the chat and enjoying the coast I sat down with blogger extraordinaire and UCE lecturer Paul Bradshaw and Andy Price,of [...]

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Ancient Wisdom From a Young Man: On Editing
A great round up of editing tips
(tags: video editing)

News and jobs for journalists :: Hacker-reporter debate consumes journalists
“A debate has been sparked in the news business on whether journalists should try to stay relevant by learning to write programming code.”
And this article is a great round-up of the [...]

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Photojournalist Mike De Sisti, from the Appleton Post Crescent has found an interesting way to use the hundreds of pics he takes at sporting events.

An intresting mashup of technologies. The digital stills camera enabling the snapper to shoot and shoot. The access to video kit that lets you edit images pdq.
(via the newspaper video group)

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Found an interesting site about videojournalism (their term not mine) by German VJ Sabine Streich called vjqueen.de
Amongst the links is a set of interviews with Mike Kraus, a BBC journalist, who has a nice little series on BBC London called the Golden Pin.

It’s a simple conceit and one that a lot of newspapers could do [...]

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Howard Owens has a nice thought piece (if only I had thoughts like this) about the difference between push and pull.
He came up with his Seven B’s of pull.

Be relevant
Be frequent
Be complete
Be diverse
Be easy
Be friendly
It’s not just your site. It’s your community’s site, too. Let them participate in it. Let them make friends with [...]

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“What people want is better personalities”.
Yep, and more hair and less of a beer belly. I’d love a sparkling personality with a certain wit and charm….oh sorry. You mean personality as in jobs description rather than character trait.
Apparently the problem with newspaper video is that the presenters have no personality.
“A lot of what goes into [...]

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