Lost Remote: ‘WSJ Live’ coming to Google TV, Roku and more
Monday, 7 November 2011, 13:07
“The Wall Street Journal’s video service, WSJ Live, has expanded aggressively beyond its iPad debut in September. This week, WSJ announced it has inked distribution deals with Google TV, Roku, Apple TV and Daily Motion. Earlier, it expanded to Boxee …
David Higgerson: Cage-fighting kids: A handy reminder of the value of YouTube for journalists
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:06
“[As] we’re seeing with Twitter, the real value of [social media] sites emerges when the story stops being about the fact the platform is being used to share information and starts being just about the information again.”
Mashable: Why Burberry Is Now as Much a Media Company as a Fashion Company
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:31
"Burberry staged a 'Tweetwalk' earlier this week during which the London-based fashion house premiered every look on Twitter moments before the models hit the runway. … Part of the initiative’s success was driven by a series of “Tw…
Paul Bradshaw: The investigated ‘investigate’: Primark does Panorama
Friday, 17 June 2011, 14:39
"The [Primarl] video borrows all the language of investigative journalism (if not Panorama's production values) to 'follow the trail' of the investigation's producer in making the programme – before lapsing into promotional vid…
Journalism and social media whitepaper
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 14:52
Daryl Willcox publishing has today released a whitepaper about how journalists have adapted to the rise of social media over the last five years, which I wrote for them.
The report is aimed largely at an audience of PR professionals who want an insight into how journalists think about social media, and it is being published alongside a survey about how journalists use social media. I must say some of the findings of that survey surprise me:
out of the
922956 journalists surveyed, over 200 made additional comments – some scathing, slamming social media as a pointless communication channel to manage, and some pointing to the fact they are now dependent on these websites as news sources.
Other findings of the survey were less surprising:
The survey also found that little more than one per cent of respondents claimed they were using social media less than they were 12 months ago, confirmation that journalists reject the notion that social media may be a fad.
One of the great frustrations of working on this project has been that the topic is so fast moving that the paper is inevitably out of date already. In the few weeks since I finished writing this, there has been quite a lot of additional information and new examples that I would have loved to include:
- The Project for Excellence in Journalism showed how Facebook had become a critical traffic driver to US news sites in 2010, while Twitter was making less of an impact.
- The Oriella Digital Journalism study found that journalists increasingly use social media – but also that the majority still don’t.
- The sessions of the BBC Social Media Summit provided a great deal of insight into how newsrooms in Britain and around the world view social media.
There have also been some interesting case studies in journalists’ use of social media, most notably the critical role of New York Times journalist Brian Stelter’s (re-)tweeting in breaking the story of Osama bin Laden on Twitter. In Britain, we have seen Twitter play an central role in the debate about privacy injunctions.
Somewhat less dramatically, Stefanie Gordon’s images of the Space Shuttle Endeavour provided an excellent case study of how images published on social media sites rapidly becomes incorporated into news organisations’ output.
Inevitably, the best way to keep up to speed with developments in social media and journalism is by participating in the link sharing communities that social networking sites enable. So here’s one place to start: my feed of social media and journalism links.
Sky News Blogs: The Brega Bunker And How We Found It
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 12:46
"Within an hour or so of the Brega air strike report, I began to get tweets from various Libyans who follow me. They all suggested that they knew of a bunker in Brega, but didn't know where it was. One of the tweets made some mention of a Dut…
Project for Excellence in Journalism: Navigating News Online
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:11
"the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.
T…
Lost Remote: Drudge referrals measure up to Facebook, Twitter
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 11:09
"The old-fashioned Drudge Report is sending more referrals to top news sites than Facebook or Twitter, explains a new Pew study that examined Nielsen traffic data. "
Bloomberg: Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers
Monday, 9 May 2011, 19:53
"The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that forced Google to remove links and snippets of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers from Google.com and Google.be."
TechCrunch: Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:25
"Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS. … The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community…
Online Journalism Blog: Getting full addresses for data from an FOI response (using APIs)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:47
How to use the Google Maps API and Google Refine to geocode and improve partial addresses in a dataset.
New York Times: Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data
Monday, 7 March 2011, 09:18
"John Ridding, the chief executive of The FT … said improvements in collecting and mining customer data were a big reason digital sales accounted for 24 percent of The FT’s revenue last year, a big jump from 19 percent a year earlier and a con…
Online Journalism Blog: Matt Wells on The Guardian’s interactive protests Twitter map
Friday, 25 February 2011, 12:12
"It’s powered by a Google spreadsheet – so it’s really easy to add new people and to attach them to particular countries or search terms."
FT.com: Google woos publishers with One Pass
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 16:36
"Google has launched a new online payments system for publishers, with more generous revenue sharing than rival Apple’s recently launched alternative."
