Some new ideas in online news design
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 10:58
Two design studios have over the past few days unveiled experimental projects that combine traditional news web site design with social media trends.
Oliver Reichenstein of Information Achitects Japan, who are currently working for a newspaper client on a developing a more” logical and intuitive unity between screen and paper news”, unveiled an reimagining of the [...]
So who’s for dinner? The attention economy is hungry
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 11:01
Many journalists still seem to misunderstand how blogs and search engines are transforming newspapers’ relationship with readers.
This week, the outgoing president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Dave Zeeck of the Tacoma News-Tribune, gave a speech, which, alongside some very good points, also rehearsed the common complaint about the lack of original reporting by [...]
Multimedia from the Telegraph newsroom
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 12:34
When Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford spent Budget Day in the Telegraph’s new multimedia newsroom, we sent along photographer James Young.
Some of his pictures appeared in the magazine this week, where we were able to print them large enough to do the new Telegraph newsroom justice. A slideshow featuring more of Young’s stills, along [...]
What we call the news
Friday, 30 March 2007, 16:54
Some light entertainment for Friday afternoon. JibJab’s take on American television news:
What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab
Trinity Mirror’s new local site is… a blog.
Friday, 30 March 2007, 13:29
Trinity Mirror’s Buckinghamshire Advertiser has relaunched its web site.
It’s very cleanly designed. But there’s something significant that is unusual about it — it’s a blog. The front page is three recent stories presented in reverse-chronological order, with each one allowing comments. There’s a list of categories, RSS feeds, and even a tag cloud. Each [...]
Bloggers’ reaction to the British Press Awards
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 16:57
Here’s a shock: Some right-wing political bloggers have reacted badly to their journalistic bête noir, Polly Toynbee, collecting the gong for columnist of the year. on Monday night.
For the Devil’s Kitchen, this was a sure sign that “everyone else in the MSM is even stupider than Polly herself”.
He went on to claim:
If we needed any [...]
More news uses of Twitter
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 15:11
I have been keeping an eye out for interesting journalistic applications of Twitter. So far it has mainly been RSS mashups that send headlines and a web link to the service, which sends 140-character messages to mobile phones or instant messager applications.
Now that Mario Menti — the developer behind the BBC-to-Twitter mashup — has created [...]
European farm subsidy site wins Freedom of Information award
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 15:55
Nils Mulvad, Brigitte Alfter and Jack Thurston of Farmsubsidy.org have won a Freedom of Information award from the US-based group Investigative Reporters and Editors.
The web site, run by a pan-European group of journalists and researchers, reveals the subsidies large landowners receive under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It has been one of the best examples [...]
PA trials new slideshow tool at Press Awards
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 10:29
Last night, Press Gazette reported the winners of the British Press Awards live on a dedicated blog (on Twitter).
But the most exciting aspects of the project was our first public use of ShowBuilder, a new multimedia slideshow tool being developed by the Press Association and Vexed Digital.
Using the tool, we created audio sideshows to embed [...]
British Press Awards - tonight
Monday, 26 March 2007, 17:05
The winners of tonight’s British Press Awards will be announced live on a dedicated blog, which you’ll find over here. You can also subscribe to its RSS feed or get alerts from it via Twitter.
