Google Maps Mania: Government Cuts on Google Maps
Friday, 1 April 2011, 13:27
Several attempts being made to plot local spending cuts on a map, including crowdsourcing efforts by Channel 4 and the Guardian.
The Guardian: How live blogging has transformed journalism
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 18:19
"The reward is huge traffic spikes, hundreds of comments – so far in March, live blogs (including minute-by-minute coverage of sporting events) on guardian.co.uk account for 3.6 million unique users, 9% of the total – and the wrath of some tra…
Wired: Meet Ben Cohen: The 27-year-old teenage millionaire
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 08:50
Ben Cohen: "Were I to start today, it would be so different. For starters, you don't really need to know or understand HTML in order to launch a website. Simply install Wordpress on some webspace, or if you can't manage that use Blogger or Typepad. There are thousands of customisable "themes" to choose from instead of the hours I spent every night coding tables and cells and frames. You can add applications doing everything from managing comments to automatically posting links to sites such as Twitter."
Press Gazette: Channel 4 funds investigative journalism web project
Monday, 1 June 2009, 13:59
"The team hopes that Help Me Investigate will be one part of a "slow journalism" movement, joining even more sites that open government data and processes to the public such as They Work For You and Fix My Street."
Sunday Herald: Channel 4 Pins Its Hopes On New Media Mavericks
Saturday, 25 October 2008, 22:09
"4 Innovation For The Public – 4iP for short – a £50m war chest to fund ideas by "troublemakers" and "innovators" in the new media world, remains a key part of Channel 4's vision for the future."
Telegraph: Blogging: Change the world with the web
Monday, 15 September 2008, 06:41
"[W]hen anyone can voice their opinions, how do you get noticed? If you're passionate about your message and want to change the world, how can you use the web to reach others who are as passionate as you? That's what Channel 4 is exploring. This week, the education team launched a new project, Battlefront, to find out how 20 teenagers in the UK are using the web to campaign about issues affecting their lives."
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 19:44
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"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 15:02
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Channel 4 News liveblogged the 42-day detention vote in the House of Commons using CoveritLive.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 17:30
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Revealed: the stories they didn’t want to tell.
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 19:43
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Jon Snow: "One wonders whether viewers, readers and listeners will ever want to trust media bosses again. Or perhaps this was a courageous editorial decision to protect this fine young man?"
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 19:42
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PR guru Max Clifford’s come out unexpectedly fiercely in criticising what he regards as an ill-thought out publicity stunt. "It just comes across, the whole thing, as a very, very calculated public relations exercise," he claims
Friday, 30 November 2007, 14:08
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"Middlesbrough’s mayor plans to complain to media regulator Ofcom unless Channel 4 apologises for branding the town the worst place to live in the UK."
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:02
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Channel, which bought half of Emap’s music television division in July for £28 million, is understood to have spoken to Emap executives about a price for acquiring the remaining 50 per cent stake.
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 10:42
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"The online alternative universe that is Second Life was supposed to offer myriad opportunities for media companies to showcase their wares. Chris Green takes a look at their differing fortunes "
