After me accusing it of being the shouty news, I have to say that I’m liking the SkyNews front page video enhanced story rotator (or whatever it’s called). It sits on the front page in the traditional leas story spot and rotates automatically through the top stories but instead of a picture it has a [...]

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Yesterday I commented on a post from Bill Thompson about suggested changes to European legislation that ‘may’ open the door to the music industry having the power to ban people from the web. I reflected that the journalism industry had yet another lesson in how not to behave, writ large, from the music [...]

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The formula shows that the lines are the same colour as the car.
I don’t watch a lot of TV when it broadcasts, I tend to catch it online, on digital replay or on repeat on one of the many digital TV channels. I’m in to timeshift rather than tivo. But I happened to be channel [...]

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A quick post to say congratulations to the students who did well at the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards. Students won in the radio journalist of the year and student team of the year categories. Well done to them and all involved.
A special mention though to Frida Larsson who won Student Multimedia Journalist of the [...]

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Oooh. It’s been a real screen grab day today.
I deal with a range of different types of journalism day-by day. The geeks and the dead tree lot seem to be the most vocal in my life at the moment. Of course the luvvies from broadcast land are getting closer to seeing what is going on. [...]

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I like Sky News. Everything is important. Even stuff that isnt. So I was keen to see the beta of their new news site and, thanks to Martin Stabe, here it is:

This is big bold stuff - shouting, thunderous music and serious suits stuff. I swear the screen of my laptop tipped back a little [...]

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A nice interactive graphic from USA today. And the Louise at the JPdigital digest has a pointer to Poynter and an article about USA Todays interactive team

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Two interesting Slideshare slideshows to share.
First, the MEN’s Sarah Hartley has shared her round up of what the UK regional press is doing on the web

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And Read/Write web give us their take on the next big social trends online

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