David Dunkley Gyimah has posted a video he shot in my kitchen asking Paul Egglestone and me about Meld.
Paul makes sense. I look like a teapot and Dave reflects on what it all means.Want to know more about Meld?
Meld: Video interview
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Meld – Taking digital journalism to the next level
Another event of interest to everyone involved in digital storytelling
The Department of Journalism at Uclan is about to launch MELD
MELD is an ideas-generation and development workshop bringing together journalists and interactive designers to tell stories in ways we haven’t thought of yet
Selected journalists will be paid to join new media practitioners at a five-day residential lab. There they will learn the skills for success in the connected world
The lab will be held on 10-14 December in Preston
Teams will work on real briefs from Industry partners, including some from Simon Bucks, Associate Editor, Sky News Online with the resources to make the ideas into reality
This is a unique opportunity for freelance journalists and interaction designers based in the North of England
Evening launch events
10th October: MANCHESTER EXCHANGE SQ. Selfridges Moet Bar
15th October:LEEDS Boutique BarFor more information mail info@meldonline.org or phone 0114 221 0454
Interesting events for Digital Journalists
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 15, founded the hugely popular fanzine, United We Stand (which he still edits). Andy is now also the author of a string of books about United, as well as a sports correspondent for The Independent, GQ and others.
Joining Andy is Trinity Mirror Regional’s editorial director Neil Benson, Press Think blogger community media advocate and scholar Jay Rosen and BBC Local TV researcher Emma Hemmingway. Mike Ward will chair the panel entitled, ‘Local Turf Wars- notes from the digital news frontier.’
The open event, which also marks 45 years of Journalism at Preston, starts with a networking reception at 5:15pm in Greenbank foyer. The panel discussion is at 6pm in Greenbank Lecture Theatre.
More details about the Forum, which will also be webcast live, is at: http://journalismleadersforum.blogspot.com. RSVP to: leaders@ukjournalism.org
Associated with that is an event from the Digital Editors Network (join the facebook group as well) who are also meeting on the 16th October.
[they] will be focussing on what works in online publishing, getting the best out of video and how blogs and the established media can work together.
The three discussions will form part of the 7th Journalism Leaders Forum, on October 16, featuring the regional editorial director of Trinity Mirror Neil Benson, who is amongst the panelists considering the global impact of the local news business.
There will be a number of ‘seminars’ on digital things ( including one from me)
very much in the style of an open discussion, with the use of an internet connection to highlight features and examples and so letting people share their own insights and observations.
Read more about it over at Craig McGinty’s Blog.
The wisdom of crowds?
Key blogs in digital journalism (especially video)
I spent the day with a bunch of very motivated South African journos who are tasked with doing multimedia. In fact engaging, or should that be wrestling, with digital in a big, profound way. I have four more days with these guys and it feels exciting. I’m feeling equally scared and blessed to be part of the process.
We, well me more than them, talked a lot about disruption. So in that spirit, and in the spirit of a previous post where I highlighted the newspaper video yahoo group as one of those ‘worth repeating’ blogs, I want to point to a bit of inspiration and another must read – Howard Owens.
Even if you disagree with what he writes (and engage in a debate with him over it) if you read it, you can point others in the newsroom to him and say ‘read this blog and then let’s talk’.
This is one of the very few newspaper execs talking online – and honestly talking,
Sensible, informed, challenging debate.
Try reading it and then, to quote an academic phrase, discuss.
Newspaper video group
Every so often I realize just how the posts on this blog have mounted up and how stuff that is always worth remembering gets lost in the archives. Blogrolls work okay, popular posts links cover some of the stuff but every now and then I think it’s worth reminding myself of the good stuff that gets lost. In that spirit I thought it was worth reminding people of a resource that is worth a look: The Newspaper video Yahoo group.
Regular readers will notice that every so often I refer to something called the Newspaper video group in a post. It’s a yahoo group that’s been set up by Chuck Fadely, a visual journalist at the Miami Herald. Those with even a toe in the debates around video, and newspaper video in particular, will no doubt of heard of the group.
For the most part its day-to-day questions and recomendations around kit. It may come across as a bit hardcore videographer at times and the point and shoot brigade may find their blood boiling more than the high-spec kit merchants at some of the attitudes expressed. But those who have’nt had a look, or those who have had a casual look should sign up and stick with it.
Even if you aren’t in to the kit thing a lot of the debate offers a unique look, not just in to the way video is being done across the rage of (generally US) newspapers, but also how the finances, management and adoption of digital are having an impact.
Sign up at: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewspaperVideo/
Vint Cerf on the BBC
I listen to Radio 4 veraciously and I always tune in to their morning news programme, Today.
Recently two things have really annoyed me about the show. The first is the noise of people typing in the background as interviews take place. Are you listening or typing – you can’t do both!
The second and admittedly less grumpy reason, is John Humphrys’ increasingly oblique and monotopic questioning style.
So it was great to here Vint Cerf , Godfather of the Internet, interviewed today and respond in such a measured, informed and sensible way to and increasingly redundant set of questions from the Humphrys.
Vint has put the cat amongst the pigeons by, apparently, declaring TV dead in his speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. But on the Today programme, he was talking about regulation of the Internet versus freedom of speech. A topic that some may rightly question him on given his position with Google and their track record. But given that some of the points raised could have been batted around all day, I was impressed by how clear he kept his points.
My favorite ‘quote’ of the interview was a point he made about the internet being a reflection of society (one of those that could become a long debate). On regulating the internet to stop bad behavior in society, he replied (and I paraphrase): When you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see. You don’t regulate the mirror. You do something about that which is reflected in it.
Have a listen via the BBC listen again service (may not be available to some)
Slow posting ahead
I’ve been away again. This time to do a bit of the fringe at Edinburgh – Great fun.
I’m straight in to more training and prep for my courses in September so posting may be a little lighter than usual.
In the meantime here is something completly unrelated. Saw a band called Wildes Holz at the fringe.
According to a review in the Herald:
The trio’s unlikely versions of Billie Jean, The Final Countdown and Born to Be Wild, complete with Reisige leaping from the stage to land on his knees on the floor while soloing like a guitar god, only tell part of the story
Why unlikely? Tobias Reisige is a recorder player.