American Journalism Review
“News organizations are embracing video on their Web sites in a big way. The quality ranges from bad to basic to superb. And for some journalists, the advent of video is a terrific new career opportunity.” and i get a mention
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I’m a geek. But you know that right?
So what was the last piece of technology that I bought? An iphone? A digital video camera?
It was a DAB radio.
I’m sat in my kitchen at the moment listening to a series called Mind Changers on Radio4
Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the development of the science [...]

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Theres a nice piece by Charles Layton at the AJR called The Video explosion.
He does a nice job of rounding up the approaches to newspaper video without falling in to the usuall tired debates or dicispiline specific traps that beset many ‘overviews’.
Of course I would say that, I get a mention.
One section that I found [...]

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I’m a guest blogger!
Shane Richmond asked me to come up with a post from 2020.
You can read the results over at the Telegraph blog.

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Maybe I’ve had a long day, but I’ve just listened to the latest Read all about on Radio 4. In this episode, part of their series on the changing face of journalism, “Philippa Kennedy explores the growth in the local newspaper industry.”
She talks to regional journalists about their changing role and asks whether their [...]

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howardowens.com: media blog » Blog Archive » Just thinking about video in the age of disruption
“Here’s four reasons why newspaper can beat televison stations in online video.”
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Consolidation is inevitable
“…consolidation is inevitable. Any news organization has to get to the point where there is no difference between old media people and new media [...]

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Corey Bergman at Lost Remote highlighted a Wall Street Journal piece about large portal sites looking to niche sites for talent.
“Big Internet companies such as MSN and Yahoo have small teams whose job it is to ‘discover’ these smaller sites before their competition does. They scan the Web, attend industry conferences and hobnob with start-ups [...]

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Paul Bradshaw continues his essential series on Newsroom of the 21st century with a look at what should happen to your story after it goes online.
He amplifies a great point about the permanent nature of a webpage and its place as an anchor for your story to develop.
I like this idea. Almost a year ago [...]

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