[RICHARD KEEBLE] What is journalism?
Richard Keeble is our finest lecturer here at Lincoln. This piece is pretty old, but I’ve only just read it, so I thought I’d share.
[GROOGLE] Wikipedia, becoming the largest cyber newsroom in the world?
Interesting post from the Multimedia Specialist at The Sunday Times (South Africa). He writes here about how the power of Wikipedia produced probably the best news coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. There was over 2,000 contributers – much more than any news outlet could afford to cover the event.
The question still remains over accuracy, but then I’d say the wisdom of crowds would come into play.
[JO'S TOOLKIT] A progressive step to increase readership
This site is co-run by the fella I linked to above — Groogle. It is a site catering for students and student publications, so of course, I found it very useful indeed. My student publication has ebbed and flowed this year, but come next year we’ll be going full throttle. I hope. One can only try.
