Meld is on day 3 and the delegates have been working hard on their pitches. Matt Marsh spent the day with them refining personnas. Hard work but there are some great results.
I’ve been milling around with a various cameras capturing bits and pieces. You can see more on the Meld blog.
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Alf Hermida has a great post on how he beat a tight budget by using Wordpress as a CMS system to create a news site for the UBC Graduate School of Journalism.
The site [TheThunderbird.ca ] is run on an installation of Wordpress MU, the multiple user version of this versatile software. Wordpress offers an easy [...]

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The video survey got me thinking about what defines us in journalism. Is it our skills, our job description or where our desk is in the office? Or is it something more than that?
Have a read this meditation on why being ‘brain damaged’ separates the pro from the mo photographers.
I couldn’t understand why people were putting [...]

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As I said in my last post, my little survey has kicked up quite a bit of comment.  My 1 hour of edit for 1 minute of video was especially vexing for some who feared that this may create unrealistic demands from ‘managers’.
Although I do have some figures from the survey about who is doing [...]

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A few work related  events have come across my desk in one way or another that may be of interest.
 First up is the 7th Journalism leaders forum at Uclan on the 16th October. The event, Local Turf Wars Notes from the digital news frontline, includes contributions from:
Andy Mitten, a graduate of the department who, at [...]

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Paul Bradshaw has been doing some work on “a number of models around the news process, newsgathering, interactivity and business models.” The results are fantastic.
I particularly like his ‘news diamond’ concept.
Go and take a look at the kind of thing that should be shaping discussion in newsrooms for the next few months.

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Bryan Murley twittered that he was looking to re-find his blogging mojo. Well looking at his last two post I don’t think he needs worry.
Two very nice video clips from Andrew DeVigal and Paul Conley on what they think J -students need to learn to get a job.

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Paul Bradshaw is doing some great work including an in depth look at using wikis as part of the journalistic process.
In September I will be presenting a paper on Wiki Journalism at the Future of Newspapers conference in Cardiff (it looks set to be a very good two days). And of course the best way [...]

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