I was tootling around the web looking at some of the sites that Alex pointed out in his post about environmental journalism. I was especially taken with them Manchesterismyplanet site (nice map thing) and the  Planet St Helens site and wondered how much involvement the local press had with them:
So a quick Google got me [...]

• 0 Comments

Picture from Flickr user Huladancer
This has been sitting in my list of things to blog on, so with a bit of delay, here is an interesting bit of data from a recent report on digital journalism from a couple of PR companies.
[T]he study has uncovered a ‘40/40 Factor’ in action - 41% of respondents now [...]

• 1 Comment

Many of you may remember the Reuters MOJO project a while back that had an Nokia N95 at its heart. One of things that most interested me about the thing was the special audio adaptor that Nokia built for them. I remember at the time thinking that it would be cool to have one.
I don’t [...]

• 1 Comment

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr

Mike Jones Digital basin is one of those blogs that I keep an eye on more with my video hat on rather than my journalism fedora. But I in a recent post he picked up on something I wanted to comment on.
In his post The Belgrade Manifesto - Profound or [...]

• 6 Comments

Chuck Fadely’s Newspaper video group continuously throws up some fantastic stuff. If you have even a passing interest in video (especially if you’re in the states) then you should be on it.
A kind of Chatham House Rule exists so I tend not to cross post stuff but a thread popped up that caught [...]

• 5 Comments

Avid has made little or no impression in the US newspaper video market but here in the UK it’s express software is fast becoming a standard. I cut on both Avid and  Final Cut Pro and have done for a while and would have to say that love them both as I do the transition [...]

• 0 Comments

I managed a couple of weeks in Spain recently and on the odd occasion I caught TV news (I was looking at the pictures as my Spanish goes no further than vino tinto ) I noticed something I wanted to share.
On the news packages the people involved in the production get a credit, on screen [...]

• 5 Comments

Whilst I have been away a number of videos of me have appeared on the web spouting various guff and bile about video.
First is a clip of me being interviewed at the DNA conference talking about video, video literacy and the rest (complete with funky intro music)

There are a number of interviews from the [...]

• 1 Comment