This post is my contribution to the inaugural Carnival of Journalism: I’m so thankful for the motivation to get this idea out of my head at last. Find out more about the carnival…

Last week I sat in on a presentation to a World Editors Forum study group. They came to the Department to hear [...]

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No, it’s not some secret new publication from Johnston Press. The JP Digitaldigest is a blog that offers a round up of all that’s interesting to newspaper people involved in online.
It’s run by  Prof Jane Singer and Louise Thomas who are colleagues of mine at the Department of Journalism.
Worth a look.

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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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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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I tell my students to try and avoid pun headlines on the web. Physician heal thyself as they say.
I thought I would give a higher profile to a comment on my post about Jay Rosen left by Oliver Luft from Journalism.co.uk. He was at the Journalism Leaders forum and used his nifty stereo recordergramme device [...]

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Journalism.co.uk reports that the Press Complaints Commision (PCC) is to extend its regulation of UK newspaper content to include AV content published on newspaper sites.
The PCC already regulates online editions of UK newspapers and an announcement about the extension of the commission is expected in the next few weeks.

The news came during an interview with [...]

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