@DNA2008: Sky News to embed SkyCast video sharing tool
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 09:21
Sky News plans to embed a white-label version of Sky’s video sharing tool, SkyCast, into news pages on to encourage user submissions of video.
Sky News associate editor Simon Bucks noted the move in a panel on user-submitted content at the DNA conference in Brussels today.
Sky News already has a still photo sharing section on its [...]
@Society of Editors - Simon Bucks: Grow membership in broadcast and online
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 10:52
The new president of the Society of Editors, Sky News associate editor for online, Simon Bucks, has delivered his inaugural address, the last event of the conference.
Bucks, who earlier this year publically recanted his skepticism about the value of interactive journalism, says online has “most of the fun of television, although you don’t have to [...]
@Society of Editors - Football economics coming to online journalism salaries?
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 10:14
The final session of the conference is “The Future is ours: 2020 Vision”, which is billed as “ifting the covers on editors’ crystal balls”.
Appropriately, the panel will be chaired by Martin Stanford, presenter of Sky.com News, the rolling news channel’s interactive programme which covers the most popular stories and debates on the web. He reveals [...]
Norwich journalist relaunches self-published football site
Monday, 2 July 2007, 18:08
Rick Waghorn, the ex-Norwich Evening News football correspondent who set out on his own online after being made redundant, has relaunched his website in the the first step of a plan to take his solo-publishing model nationwide.
Last year, Waghorn used a redundancy payout to set up a web site to cover Norwich City FC, the [...]
Friday, 13 April 2007, 00:18
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Stuart Hughes has posted a video of today’s statement by the parents of kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. He says the joint BBC, Sky, CNN and Al Jazeera" programme shows how far the industry has come in recent years on issues of journalist safety
