Making sense of the intersection between media and technology. This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer and journalism educator. The BBC veteran leads the multiplatform journalism programme at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia. The course focuses on innovative story-telling methods, looking at new styles of narrative that take advantage of the simultaneous use of text, hypertext, photos, audio, video and interactiv...
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Please join me in congratulating my journalism students on the first edition of this academic year of our online publication, TheThunderbird.ca.
My colleagues and myself at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism have been working with our grad students...
Just a few weeks ago, the Spanish Soitu.es news site was praised for its “where core ideas come through as confident innovation and mesh with traditional journalism to create a fresh and distinctive package”.
The words came from the judges at the...
Media in Canada – keeping media and marketing execs up to speed on the Canadian media scene
Circulation at Canadian dailies declines, with National Post down 20% and the Globe down 8.4%:
(tags: Canada media newspapers circulation)
CBC News – Canada –...
Like countless others, I watched at least some of the webcast on YouTube of the U2 concert at the Rose Bowl. It made me think of the only time I have seen U2 play live, more than 20 years ago at the Milton Keynes Bowl in Britain.
Back then, to reach a...
First Read: The Mutualized Future is Bright : CJR
The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger on the mutualization of the newspaper: "Our readers have become part of what we do."
(tags: journalism newspapers twitter collaboration Guardian trafigura alanrusbridger...
