Archives for “Citizen Journalism”

Awesome cit-journo shot of New York plane

This brilliant image was taken by Janis Krums, a Twitter user (@jkrums) who in his day-to-day life works on improving the performance of athletes. But ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, January 16, 2009 at 1:00 am.

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Earthquake video back to haunt me

Seems Radio 4 did a 2008 Now Show round up and our 'quake video was on it. I've been trying (a little) to shake off that ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 9:21 pm.

Filed under Citizen Journalism, Student Journalism, TV, The BBC.

The world reports the news, Intelligent Aggregated Editorial reports the world

It's too late for me to write too many words. But here's an idea I have. It's called Intelligent Aggregation and I think it could ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 2:24 am.

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If only Lamb had an N95: How newspapers can succeed online

At Auckland airport I bought Christina Lamb's 'Small Wars Permitting', a stunning collection of her finest articles, with her own reflective commentaries throughout. Bit like ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 7:25 pm.

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Outdated and useless wire services: BE GONE!

Reuters mobile journalism kit. I really, really want one. Picture: KevGlobal (Flickr) This post is for the June Carnival of Journalism. Andy Dickinson has posed this ...

7 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 6:42 am.

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[Video] BBC earthquake coverage: A complete and utter shambles

England shook tonight. I live in Lincoln -- just south of the epicentre. I was just about to go to bed when the plentiful beer ...

17 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 3:21 am.

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The coverage that never was

What a bizarre day for news. The top headline on the BBC today has been that a flood didn't happen. A non-event. A no-show. Mother ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 3:10 pm.

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Flood coverage: Who will produce the best?

Let's see how this pans out. Tonight, the East coast of England is bracing itself for what the Telegraph claims could be the "worst floods ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:07 am.

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TheLincLIVE: Initial thought on the night

It's all done. Perhaps not the type of event that I'd have hoped, but at least that aspect was out of our hands. From my point ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 1:55 am.

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Ridiculous Comment Award 2007

Welcome to tonight's award ceremony. There's only one category. And only one nominee. The winner of the 2007 Ridiculous Comment of the Year Award goes to ...

4 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 6:18 pm.

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Jeff Jarvis and Roy Greenslade on journalism education (and, er, me!)

The Editors Weblog has posted this today. An interesting return to the subject of journalism training, or to use a more funky phrase, j-schools. Word. Anyway, ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:39 pm.

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More responses to Jurassic Newsrooms

A few more responses have cropped up from around the blogosphere. Most notably from Roy Greenslade. More on Roy's comments later, but first, I'll turn my ...

4 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 1:14 pm.

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Jurassic Newsroom (cont.)

My response comes from this post yesterday. Thought I'd give it a bit more prominence. Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Linda Jones: Dave, so a man ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 11:54 pm.

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The Good Old Days

"Print journalists should just do print." Who said that? Phillip Knightley. The room practically exploded. Is this man serious? Knightley's guest lecture tonight (at the University of ...

12 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 9:32 pm.

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Grantham Journal uses Google Maps to track rogue heron

Another piece I've done for Press Gazette... [PRESS GAZETTE] Grantham Journal uses Google Maps to track rogue heron Johnston Press’s Lincolnshire weekly the Grantham Journal is the ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 5:06 pm.

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Social hatred

What's the opposite of Facebook? Arsebook! "Arsebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE." It doesn't actually connect you with anyone -- it's ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 1:09 pm.

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Football club closes training sessions over citizen journalism

[PRESS GAZETTE] Football club closes training sessions over citizen journalism Championship football club Norwich City have resorted to private training sessions, blaming rapid online reporting due ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 10:19 pm.

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Citizen Journalism: What are we afraid of?

Steve Outing writes about citizen journalism here. There are, he says, 11 layers to citizen journalism that if carried out correctly will lead to a ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 5:46 pm.

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Yes, their worries are quite different

[REUTERS BLOG] Fancy having 500 newspaper editors as Facebook buddies? Interesting blog by those chaps over at Reuters, the news agency. A bloody big news agency ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 11:48 pm.

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No heroes in journalism anymore

Interesting reactions to my blog post last night. Martin Stabe agrees: Lincoln journalism student Dave Lee gets it: “Words are words. They take just as long to ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 6:25 pm.

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I need a hero!

After reading a story about an Anglia News presenter who cocked it up a bit (it wasn't really her fault) on the Press Gazette site, ...

11 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 11:58 pm.

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Updated: Chavs

This has a "Tonight With Trevor McDonald" special written all over it. Updated: It's gone. Nevermind.

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 8, 2007 at 10:40 pm.

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Saddam (again)

There's been great discussion on the Guardian Editors' Blog about the coverage of Saddam's hanging last week. It mainly deals with the use of cameraphone images ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 6:43 pm.

Filed under Citizen Journalism, Ethics, Newspapers, Tabloids.

Updated: ‘We won’t show you any more footage’

It's happened. Saddam has been executed. Gotta admit, I was shocked at the timing of it all...but then I guess there's never a good time ...

70 Comments. Posted by Dave on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 8:04 pm.

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