Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Dec 1, 2009, 6:13 pm
MediaShift . Merging Online and Broadcast Cultures to Reinvent 'NewsHour' | PBS An insight look at the attempt to create a new PBS Newshour (tags: journalism convergence media, online pbs) Sa...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 26, 2009, 12:20 pm
The set of guidelines about user-generated content produced by industry body, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), aims to help broadcasters get the most out of working with the audience. ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 21, 2009, 6:09 pm
Internal AP Memo Thanks Writers For Successful 'Literary Treasure Hunt' In Finding Sarah Palin's Book | TPMDC How the Associated Press managed to get a copy of Palin's book ahead of pu...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 20, 2009, 8:54 pm
I have a Google Wave account though I haven’t had the time to investigate its potential. At first glance, Google Wave can be bewildering, but it does seem to offer a strong platform for collabo...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 20, 2009, 6:10 pm
The BBC and Public Space BBC director general Mark Thompson: Public space is not-for-profit space, not by accident but by design. It exists not to make money but to serve the public and it is account...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 19, 2009, 10:01 pm
The BBC has made changes to its news website to make its headlines more SEO friendly. The headlines appearing on index pages are short and concise as usual, but clicking through to the story reveals ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 19, 2009, 11:38 am
Director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, on the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio. He talks about the potential to produce better ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 17, 2009, 11:24 am
With the launch of YouTube Direct, YouTube is positioning itself as a key intermediary between the media and the public. YouTube Direct is described as “a new tool that allows media organizations t...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 12, 2009, 11:48 pm
This list of top 50 journalism blogs offers a good starting point for tapping into current trends in the media. It includes: Blogs that focus on citizen, or grassroot, journalism, personal blogs from...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 11, 2009, 1:03 pm
Putting the words Twitter and journalism into the same sentence seems to provoke a spasm from professional journalists. At a “curated unconference” hosted by Reuters Thomson in London, th...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 10, 2009, 12:35 pm
... that readers would return to the print product is they could not access the newspaper content online. This was in sharp contrast to the reaction of the readers. Only 30% said ... source for ne...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 8, 2009, 5:11 pm
Valuable social networking presentation for the News21 Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education. It’s by Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the University o...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Nov 5, 2009, 4:03 pm
Leonard Brody’s keynote address to Connect ‘09 is well worth a watch. In his talk at the even for tech start-ups and innovators, organised by the BC Innovation Council, he outlines how we...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 31, 2009, 11:56 am
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...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 27, 2009, 8:35 pm
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 distinc...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 26, 2009, 7:13 pm
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: ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 26, 2009, 2:55 pm
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 M...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 20, 2009, 7:14 pm
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 t...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 7, 2009, 1:30 pm
Image via CrunchBase The BBC has made a draft of its revised editorial guidelines available online as a PDF for public consultation. This is first time the public have been consulted on the BBC gui...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 6, 2009, 11:52 am
Dr Siva Vaidhyanathan was briefly in Vancouver for a talk about his forthcoming book, The Googlization of Everything. To him, Googlization is the process of the world being processed, rendered and re...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 4, 2009, 5:47 pm
The New York Times emerged as the big winner in the Online Journalism Awards, rewarded for general excellence and for outstanding use of digital technologies. But the Online News Association awards ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 3, 2009, 5:06 pm
... in a practical sense, Berry says that a first step is tagging content. But he mentions the value of correct and incorrect tagging. For example, HuffPost tagged their story on Heath Ledger’...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 3, 2009, 2:26 pm
The brains behind Google News, Krishna Bharat, braves the crowd at the Online News Association Conference. Bharat might be seen as both friend or foe, so there is a great deal of interest in what he ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 3, 2009, 2:03 pm
The ONA conference session on SEO is packed, reflecting the intense interesting in understanding this dark art. Jennifer Grappone, co-author of “Search Enginge Optimization an Hour a Day” provide...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 3, 2009, 12:25 pm
It is no surprise that a session on entrepreneurship at the Online News Association conference is packed. Ann Grimes from the Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University starts by talking abo...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 3, 2009, 11:40 am
Day two of the Online News Association kicked off with a keynote by Lisa Stone of Blogher, a network of blogs that reaches more than 15 million women a month. This is the first ONA she has been able ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 2, 2009, 5:18 pm
In a session on data at the Online News Association conference, Aron Pilhofer of the The New York Times, gave a detailed look at DocumentCloud. The project is intended to help present, share, find an...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 2, 2009, 2:33 pm
I’m very pleased to announce that Eric Ulken, a former editor from the Los Angeles Times, is joining the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. Eric is coming as the Canwest Visiting Professor for ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 2, 2009, 1:46 pm
Amy Webb presented her very popular session on tech trends before an eager audience of journalists, hoping to find out what the future will bring. Webb explained how she had asked online what were th...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 2, 2009, 11:48 am
Evan Williams, founder and CEO of Twitter, kicked off the Online News Association conference in San Francisco. The format was a fireside chat, except before an audience of hundreds of journalists, ac...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Oct 1, 2009, 6:56 pm
The Online News Association conference doesn’t formally kick off until Friday morning. But some of the material is already available online for those who couldn’t make it to San Francisco ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 29, 2009, 5:27 pm
Together with many others passionate about online journalism, I’m heading off to San Francisco for the annual conference of the Online News Association. There is a big focus on practical sessio...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 23, 2009, 7:11 pm
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab The full text of NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky&#...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 21, 2009, 2:30 pm
The Asian American Journalists Association held its first inaugural meeting in Vancouver on Friday 18 September, hosted by the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. I was honoured to be on the panel to ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 17, 2009, 7:10 pm
Tools to build an engaged online community | Socialmedia.biz Good advice from JD Lasica, and free handouts too! (tags: socialmedia, journalism, internet, education) The Tyee leads shortlist for onlin...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 16, 2009, 5:43 pm
In my latest piece for PBS Mediashift, I discuss how the mainstream media is incorporating user-generated content, drawing on research presented at the recent Future of Journalism conference.  Here&#...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 15, 2009, 7:33 am
Here are the slides and the text of my presentation on ambient journalism at the Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University: Twittering the News: The emergence of ambient journalism My pa...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 13, 2009, 12:36 pm
Sarah Hartley of The Guardian has put together a video with the thoughts of the academics who attended the Future of Journalism Conference at Cardiff University. Perhaps surprisingly, she found most ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 10, 2009, 8:43 am
Maria Grafstrom and Karolina Windell of Uppsala University in Sweden analysed how business journalists were using blogs. Presenting at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, they found that ...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 10, 2009, 6:01 am
Deborah Wenger of the University of Mississippi looked at what the top US news companies were looking for in new hires. In her presentation at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, she outl...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 10, 2009, 4:22 am
At the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, one of the papers lookedat how are news media in the US adopting Twitter to communicate the news and engage with readers. Marcus Messner presented t...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 9, 2009, 5:11 pm
I’ll be presenting my paper on Twitter at journalism first thing on Thursday on day two of the Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University. In the paper, I suggest that Twitter can be...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 9, 2009, 10:37 am
A study of UGC at the BBC has found that audience contributions have consolidated, rather than changed, journalistic norms and practices. The study by Claire Wardle, Andrew Williams and Karin Wahl-Jo...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 9, 2009, 10:19 am
One of the research papers at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff analysed the attitudes of local journalists in the UK towards user-generated content. My colleague, Jane Singer, interview...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 9, 2009, 6:33 am
In a keynote at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, Bettina Peters tackles the idea of what we mean by media development. This is pertinent to Peters, who is the director of the Global Fo...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 9, 2009, 6:11 am
The Future of Journalism conference started in Cardiff with a welcome from Bob Franklin. The conference received 370 abstracts, with more than 100 research papers being presented in 30 panels over tw...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 8, 2009, 11:51 am
I’m in Cardiff for the Future of Journalism conference, hosted by School of Journalism at Cardiff University. Over the next two days, academics from around the world will present research on to...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Sep 1, 2009, 11:01 pm
Image via CrunchBase The big news in the citizen journalism space is that Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com has been sold to the local news network, Examiner.com. The new owners,...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Aug 29, 2009, 10:39 am
The  BBC’s business editor is an unlikely model for the journalist of the 21st century. But Robert Peston has emerged as a prime example of how journalism is practiced in a digital age. His D...
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Alfred H. posted an article on Reportr.net - Aug 27, 2009, 12:22 pm
This webinar by PR firm Ogilvy offers a comprehensive look at how businesses can tap into the power of Twitter. It was posted in November 2008 but the advice still stands, summed up by the words: fol...
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