Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2014
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Local news is a product that needs innovators #localjournalism
The local news business is ripe for the kind of innovation that characterises tech start-ups, argues Borders entrepreneur Jasper Westaway.
Freelance journalists in Italy protest over minimum wage ruling
A new Italian law called ‘fair salary’ says freelance journalists should be paid no less than 3,000 euros per year!
The Steadicam alternative for self-shooters
A new piece of kit offers the chance to self-shoot impressive tracking shots, as long as you can master its setup
New ad law set to wreak havoc in Russian TV market
A new Russian law which stops pay TV channels from carrying ads is widely seen as an attempt to curtail media freedom by undermining smaller players.
McIlroy not the only winner at first digital and social Open
At Hoylake, the R&A, which runs golf, made a world-first foray into digital, with the on-site BBC social media team fully integrated into a major outside broadcast event.
A down-to-earth look at how the internet actually works
The internet is as much a physical infrastructure as the road network, however little we choose to think of it like that
How BBC News covered Indian elections on WhatsApp and WeChat
BBC News ran pilots on WhatsApp and WeChat for India elections, on BBM for Hausa service, and on Mxit for South Africa elections.
How should digital journalists mark the centenary of World War One in compelling new ways?
The Wall Street Journal has matched its online commemoration of World War I with the way its audience uses digital content. The end product also required plenty of traditional journalistic research and creative thinking, the WSJ’s digital editor reports
A licence to innovate: How the BBC’s e-books team works under the radar
The first of an occasional series of blogs about innovation looks at how the BBC is experimenting with using its programme content as the basis of e-books
UKIP’s new friends? Part 2: A guide to the anti-establishment parties in the new European Parliament
UKIP is the biggest of a number of anti-establishment parties elected to the European parliament. This guide gives the background on the others, from France, Italy and elsewhere
