Blog posts by year and monthMay 2014
Posts (15)
Why radio is the crucial medium in Afghanistan
In the past fifteen years, the number of radio stations in Afghanistan has multiplied. Most are dependent on aid grants, so they’re largely non-commercial.
How does it feel? What journalism can learn from online marketing techniques
Online marketing is developing semi-scientific techniques to appeal to audiences. What can journalism learn from them?
#smsldn: How news is responding to the inexorable rise of mobile
More and more users are getting news on mobile platforms. Providers are responding in different ways, with the BBC implementing an ambitious mobile strategy for Africa in particular.
#smsldn: Using social media for world news
Social media are as useful, or more so, for news from countries with a less developed communications infrastructure, and as tools to bring new voices to global media.
#smsldn: How Twitter does everything a journalist needs
Twitter's 'news compass' shows how it can help journalists detect, report, distribute and engage their audience, as the London Social Media Summit on 16 May heard from Twitter's Vivian Schiller.
#smsldn: How to make highly shareable, highly clickable content
What are the secrets of shareability? At the London Social Media Summit on 16 May, experts from different media organisations offered some telling examples of what worked and what did not.
#smsldn: James Harding on how social media has changed the BBC’s world
The BBC’s director of news and current affairs, James Harding, says BBC News can thrive in a more diverse media world, making this “the most exciting time to be a journalist since the advent of television”
#smsldn: Brazilians are naturals for social media
Established media in Brazil are making use of the natural sociability of the population, aggregating information to communicate back to their audience and to influence public bodies.
#smsldn: Stand by for this year’s Social Media Summit
The College of Journalism and the New York Times are once again hosting the Social Media Summit, this year in London. And there are plenty of new themes to discuss.
Italy’s new crowdfunded foreign correspondents
Italy’s foreign correspondents have been paying for their work through crowdfunding, to make up for the lack of resources offered by the country’s media outlets.
