links for 2007-06-22

Friday, 22 June 2007, 13:24

• mbites: A new project: Using social media tools to report the world
  Mike Butcher says he is working on a social media reporting project like Ben Hammersley’s “with two entirely independent journalists, who don’t have the BBC’s resources”.
  (tags: bbc journalism blogging blogs)
• Journerdism: Newspapers building long-life resources; Big media, act small; AT&T’s big new monopoly acts shady; Music mashups, politics & Girl Talk; Pulitzer for Jon Stewart?
  Wot’s this? Lolcats in newspapers!? “I’m in ur newspaper writin mah colum”.
  (tags: newspapers journalism humour)
• Brand Republic: Yahoo! acquires sports news website Rivals.com
  “Yahoo! has acquired US-based college and high school sports website Rivals for an undisclosed sum, to boost its sports publishing and online communities business.”
  (tags: yahoo rivals.com sports journalism)
• SmartMoney.com: EU Clears NBC, NewsCorp To Form Internet Video JV
  “The European Commission Thursday cleared U.S. media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. to form a joint venture which will broadcast television and film entertainment over the Internet.”
  (tags: newscorp eu nbc video youtube)
• Press Gazette: BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment
  “Hammersley will file to his personal blog, he will upload photos to Flickr, video to YouTube, post snippets of text to the microblogging site Twitter, bookmark research on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us and network with people through Facebook.”
  (tags: benhammersley blog blogging blogs Journalism turkey youtube flickr twitter facebook)

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