Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2009
Posts (38)
Tiger Woods and the public interest
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Shooting the messenger
Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera's documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, has been nominated for an Emmy award. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 You can read more about the documentary and the issues it raises by clicking here.
The wired White House
A week ago, I started writing something about the use of social media by governments. I had been impressed to see the number of places in which the White House has a presence. In May, it joined Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Now it is also on Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes and LinkedIn. Number 1...
Keeping on to the end
Here on the College of Journalism website, we stress how important it is to read (and watch and listen) with a sceptical mind. All that a newspaper article (or TV package etc) can ever tell you is what the journalist was thinking when they put their story together. This story from the Birmingh...
4iP co-investment in Slugger O'Toole
Considering blogger Mick Fealty began blogging "by accident", the deal between Slugger O'Toole and Channel 4's 4iP is an interesting development. Speaking to CoJo's David Hayward a month ago, there was a grassroots edginess to Slugger O'Toole in the way Mick Fealty described the blog and reac...
Is it really all about ink and wood pulp?
The Italian newspaper magnate Carlo De Benedetti is undoubtedly a man to listen to - an opportunity afforded by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism which invited Ing. De Benedetti (in Italy, the qualification 'Engineer' - 'Ingegnere' - is used respectfully as a title) to deliver it...
Giving it away
While News International and other newspaper groups wrestle with the dilemma of whether to charge for content they have been giving away for free online, television and movie businesses are at an earlier phase - deciding whether to put their content online for free. YouTube's creation of a...
Instant images
Picfog is a clever tool for realtime searching of pictures on Twitter. It's a great way to get an instant view of what kind of images are being uploaded, since it includes a Breaking Now list as well as access to previous popular subjects. Just as useful to journalists, it allows search by ...
How to make journalism pay
CUNY's Jeff Jarvis - of Buzzmachine fame - has this talk on new business models to enable journalism to pay its way...
Too much reality?
T.S. Elliot said: "Mankind cannot bear too much reality." Was this the case with a report by the BBC's New York Correspondent, Matthew Price, broadcast on Radio 4's Today programme (16 November) and discussed on Feedback (22 November)? Price had been on assignment in Mexico, where he witnes...
