Which Android phone would you recommend for journalists?
TweetPlenty has been written about the iPhone, and plenty on the Android vs iPhone debate. But many students, having already decided to go the Android route, still don’t know which to get. So, assuming...
View ArticleA Storify of what Android phones people recommended on Twitter
TweetYesterday I asked – on this blog, on my Facebook page, and on Twitter – what Android phones were best for a journalism student who didn’t want to buy an iPhone or BlackBerry. The blog post...
View ArticleA case study in crowdsourcing investigative journalism (part 4): The London...
TweetContinuing the serialisation of the research underpinning a new Help Me Investigate project, in this fourth part I describe how one particular investigation took shape. Previous parts are linked...
View ArticleLocation, Location, Location
TweetIn this guest post, Damian Radcliffe highlights some recent developments in the intersection between hyper-local SoLoMo (social, location, mobile). His more detailed slides looking at 20...
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Reduced Relevance – the downside of social, mobile news
TweetNews moves so quickly that your Facebook ‘friends’ just can’t keep up. In a guest post for OJB, Neil Thurman highlights a new research report that suggests the increased availability of news on...
View ArticleTales of a Video Blogger
TweetIn a guest post for OJB, cross-posted from Putney Debater, Michael Chanan explores his experiences of video blogging for the New Statesman and how it differs from conventional documentary. Being...
View ArticleA reading list for studying online journalism
TweetAs a new semester nears, I thought I would anticipate the ‘What should I read?’ enquiries by sharing an aggregated reading list from the classes I teach at both Birmingham City University and City...
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Circa news app shows liveblogging’s rise and rise
TweetCirca news app – image from TechCrunch Just how dominant can the liveblog format become? In Model for the 21st Century Newsroom Redux I noted how quickly the format has been adopted as a default...
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Review: TranscribeMe App
Tweet Following her review of the audio transcription app Transcribe, Antoinette Siu looks at online transcription service TranscribeMe. In an age of automation, audio transcription looks like a...
View ArticleInterview: Bethanie Maples Krogstad on the TranscribeMe mobile transcription app
TweetFollowing her review of the mobile audio transcription app TranscribeMe, Antoinette Siu interviewed VP of Sales & Marketing at TranscribeMe Bethanie Maples Krogstad about the transcription...
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Wikis and real-time maps: now there’s an idea for local newspapers
Local newspapers looking for ideas to bring readers to their websites could do a lot worse than look at The Wiki City project. This aims to apply wiki technology to the mapmaking process, with the...
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Guest blogger Bas Timmers on the customisable future of news
Bas Timmers is Newsroom Editor at Dutch broadsheet de Volkskrant It´s 2015. Newspapers don´t exist anymore. At least, not as a mass medium. Because everyone is living in his own cocoon, his own little...
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Citizen journalism: some conclusions from the European Bloggers Unconference
Consider this my first attempt at a photoblog entry. For those who prefer video or text you can see both at http://www.ejc.net/seminars/picnic_2007_3
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Get the Online Journalism Blog on your mobile
If you fancy getting the OJB on your mobile click along to this page on Widsets. The WidSets application is like a personalised mobile homepage. I’ve created a little widget that you can add to the...
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Five W’s and a H that should come *after* every story (A model for the 21st...
So far this model has looked at sourcing stories in the new media age, and reporting a news story in the new media age. In this third part I look at what should happen after a news story has been...
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Help make ’5Ws+H’ happen
I felt so strongly about the Five W’s and a H that should come *after* every story that I pitched an idea based on it to the Knight Foundation. It’s called the ‘Conversation Toolkit’, and it’s through...
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Five Ws and a H that should come after every story – update
Since I wrote the Five W’s and a H that should come *after* every story post I’ve been responding to the hugely helpful posts and leads, and developing the idea further. As the deadline for Round 2 of...
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Making money from journalism: new media business models (A model for the 21st...
In the final part of the Model for the 21st Century Newsroom I look at how new media has compounded problems in news organisations’ core business models – and the new business models which it could...
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Q: “What is the point of Twitter?” A: …
Someone recently posted on my Facebook wall: “Paul, I don’t understand, and fear I may be too old for all this already… but… what exactly is the point of twitter?” I can come up with at least nine...
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First Belgian mobile webcamp at the 26th of April in Hasselt
All the information you need to know can be found on the webcamp wiki. With the login ‘mobiel’ and the password ‘devcamp’ you can add your name, and a presentation you want to give. More details on...
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