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The Winter Olympics online review: Part 6 - Germany, Canada, and video overview
Over the last week or so I've been reviewing online newspaper coverage of the recent Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. In the final part of this series, I want to look at elements of coverage in Germany and Canada, and present an overview video with some clips of the sites in action.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 5 - Austrian coverage
The fifth part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is an overview of some of the features that appeared in the Austrian press before the games got underway.
Whatever Paul Waugh thinks, The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment was no "total failure"
In describing The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment as a "total failure", the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh gives us a glimpse of one of the reasons the traditional media industry finds it hard to innovate with technology.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 4 - "The Twitter Olympics"
In part 4 of this series examining online coverage by newspapers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I'm looking at uses of Twitter from Sweden and Germany, and a community platform in South Korea.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 3 - Online tabloids in Sweden
In the third part of this series, I'm reviewing the very similar online coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from two of Sweden's biggest papers - Aftonbladet and Expressen.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 2 - Visual navigation in Italy and France
The second part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games has a focus on visual navigation elements appearing in France and Italy.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 1
The opening post in a series looking at online newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from around the world.
Reader's comments about The Observer relaunch
"Well you seem to have made a lot of people extremely unhappy" - a look through some of the comments left on Observer editor John Mulholland's blog post about the recent redesign of the Sunday print edition of the paper.
The Observer relaunch - my first impressions
The Observer relaunched at the weekend with a new magazine and 'The New Review'. Here are some of the things that caught my eye in the new format.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 3
In the final part of my review of user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm looking at social media usage, and the moderation overhead of providing online comment facilities on a student newspaper.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 2
In part two of this series looking at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm examining student news sources like Pluto Online in Preston, and The Demon in Leicester.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 1
With my interest in the future of news, I've been looking at the digital publishing by the people who might be producing the news in the future. This series looks at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers.
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 4 - British and American online newspapers
I started this series looking at some of the British press coverage in print of the African Cup of Nations, and today I wanted to look a little bit further at online coverage in the main papers. My impression - and this is an unscientific one - is that there has been more coverage of the tournament than in previous years. I think this is in part because it allows news organisations to gear up for covering another football...
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 3 - African newspapers
I've been looking at online coverage of the African Cup of Nations, and yesterday I was looking at newspapers in four of the countries taking part - hosts Angola, alongside papers from Algeria, Cameroon and Egypt. Today I've got some screengrabs and notes from the online newspaper coverage of three other African nations - all of whom reached at least the quarter-finals. Ghana The Daily Graphic has its roots in the British Mirror group, and is now state-owned. Their...
The flawed French Facebook & Twitter experiment - social media is a conversation, not a newswire
The curious experiment by five French journalists to hide in a remote location and only use Facebook and Twitter as their news sources ignores the fact that social media is a conversation with friends - and conversations with friends are generally pretty good at conveying the news you need to know.
'News Linked Data Summit' on Fleet Street
I spent Friday at a fascinating event at the St Bride Foundation, just off Fleet Street, discussing the application of the 'web of data' to the news industry. I'd helped organise the 'News Linked Data Summit', along with John O'Donovan and Silver Oliver of the BBC, Richard Wallis of Talis, and Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust. The day was held under the Chatham House Rule, and so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but suffice...
'The curation gap' - what journalism can learn from "Citizen History"
My post yesterday, inspired by some of the fallout from the news:rewired event, generated some healthy debate on the blog and on Twitter. Scott Dougal suggested I was being a little unfair holding that article from that paper up as an example of professionalism journalism, and David Higgerson on Twitter said he just wished the debate 'would move beyond pointing out faults'. I promised him that I'd post how I thought everybody could live together happily ever after instead. In...
With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger or 'citizen journalist', when newspapers persist in publishing professionally produced articles, like the Sunday Express 'exposure' of the BBC use of Twitter, which are so wrong that they have to be swiftly deleted.
Real-time web provides real-time feedback on The Guardian's iPhone application
Real-time web gives real-time feedback on Guardian iPhone appTwitter is transforming the way that digital products are launched.
"In the future, there will be journalists"
At a UCLAN workshop in Preston, I was part of a group trying to discover the digital skills and training that a young journalist in 2012 would need. This post explains what we thought the journalist of the future would look like.
'Linking out' makes "Live from Studio Five" more credible than Sky Sports
How the global climate change editorial project appeared online
Don't put Johnston Press on trial over their paywall experiment
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
"Thierry Henry and the net" piece on Guardian PDA blog
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
'Smug foul-mouthed juvenile overpaid twerp' Russell Brand graces The Sun's front page today
Comments are free...to inform and to entertain, as well as infuriate
PM's private call published by The Sun, but PCC has no interest in a 'public interest' debate
"UFO hits wind turbine": World-class journalism from News International
New interactive Flash photo gallery on guardian.co.uk
How to make friends and influence people in The Guardian office this morning...
Live-blogging the BNP on Question Time across the web
Twitter - dangerous hunting ground for paedophiles. And The Sun's football correspondents
Contribute your information sharing new year resolutions to December's FUMSI magazine
Times 7am offer short-changed by odd marketing short-code?
Stephen King 'Under The Dome' novel snippets invade the Internet
What Jan Moir can teach us about handling an Internet brand crisis
Guess which Jan Moir article is missing from the Daily Mail's search results?
Has Jan Moir hastened reform of how the PCC handles 3rd party complaints?
'The wisdom of crowds and the folly of lawyers'
So was it the Express or The Sun that 'saved' the England game?
Revenue share deal spikes newspaper guns about England's pay-per-view Internet World Cup qualifier
Take the currybetdotnet survey
Google ads battleground between The Sun and Labour
The Guardian's 'river of tones'
The romance of print as a historical memento
The Guardian's children's comics: Part 2 - Roy of the Rovers
The Guardian's children's comics: Part 1 - 40 years of changing media
However much James Murdoch wishes, the World Service made a BBC News website inevitable
Mail homepage goes indigo - well, 'Indigo Collection' anyway
"And on the seventh day..." - Sunday newspaper branding highlighted at Summer Sundae
Interview with a UCL Library & Information studies student - Ben Veasey
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 7 - News branding and 'authoritative information' on the web
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 6 - Measuring news consumer behaviour online
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 5 - Changes in the delivery of news
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 4 - Information Architecture in a news context
A monkey could also write the annual stories knocking A-Level students
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 3 - What makes good Information Architecture?
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 2 - Perceptions of Information Architecture as a discipline
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 1 - Internet and intranet navigation trends
Baby P killer images lose their impact online
"Bang Bang" - What B.A. Robertson can teach the news industry about the price of scarcity
Does the embedded video deal lead to papers burying bad BBC news online?
The tyranny of chronology: Part 6 - The video
Toby Moores and Mark Jones discussing social media and 'the third voice' at #newsinnovation
The tyranny of chronology: Part 5 - Journalism centred design
The tyranny of chronology: Part 4 - Meaningful metadata and our missing librarians
The tyranny of chronology: Part 3 - News atoms for the 21st century
The tyranny of chronology: Part 2 - On the subject of topics
The tyranny of chronology: Part 1 - From year-by-year to minute-by-minute
The mysterious case of The Telegraph's anonymous columnist who cost the BBC £45,000
Where was the 'editorial viewpoint' at the News Innovation unconference?
Expectations of the News Innovation unconference on camera
Andrew Walkinshaw of Timetric on 'numbers that vary against time' at #newsinnovation
Visualising the Twitter stream from the #newsinnovation unconference
#newsinnovation links on Twitter
Michael Jackson and search at The Guardian
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 4
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 3
No SOS needed for newspaper RSS
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 6
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 5
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 4
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 3
Michael Jackson's death sweeps BBC expenses from the front pages
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 2
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 1
Is peer-to-peer streaming of international football showing the game a new revenue model?
Wembley on the web: Part 2 - The FA Cup Final online from Sky Sports and the BBC
"Dead men don't sue" - the Mail's HTML refuses to clear Air France 'terror suspects'
Wembley on the web: Part 1 - The FA Cup Final online from ITV and Setanta
Spector Twitter hoax shows online honesty gap between bloggers and newspapers
'Local newspaper week' - The local council publicity machine
'Local newspaper week' - Council newspapers in London
'Do online newspapers have a future in a Digital Britain' - MTM London round-table session
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"Journalism in the digital age"
I'll be appearing on a panel with Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on Sunday April 11th. More details...
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With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger, if the 'professional' keeps publishing articles so wrong that they have to be deleted.
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