Online Journalism Blog: Bella Hurrell on data journalism and the BBC News Specials Team
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 11:58
"Data is only useful if it is personal – I want to find out about schools in my area, restaurants near me and so on – or when it reveals something remarkable. The duck pond debacle from MPs expenses data or the Iraq civilian death records kept…
Journalism.co.uk: Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 17:21
Ed Roussel: "We are interested in recruiting, not an army, but a small number of people in interactive graphics and looking at what we can do to do a better job with video. … The three biggest challenges for us editorially in the next year will be multimedia, multi-device tablets and smart phones and social media."
WWD: Anna Wintour Weaves Her Web
Friday, 10 September 2010, 09:54
"The new vogue.com — created in conjunction with Code and Theory, the digital development company behind the streamlined Web sites of The Daily Beast, Interview magazine and NBC New York — has such elements as an oversize features carousel (which integrates advertisements) with images that are three times larger than before, a locking navigation bar (essentially a traveling table of contents), plus Vogue-inspired typography and lots of white space, or “breathing room,” as Caroline Palmer, editor of vogue.com, put it."
Mashable: Dissecting the New Vogue.com: How One Magazine Did the Web Right
Friday, 10 September 2010, 09:50
"the new Vogue.com is essentially a vehicle for fashion multimedia. In the same way that its print counterpart is a showcase for huge, glossy photo spreads, the website is an exhibit for large, high-quality images and video. Full-screen slideshows are a perfect fit for elaborate fashion collection displays, for example."
Press Gazette: Paul Lewis to stay at Guardian to run web project team
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 09:14
"[Paul Lewis], who was due to join The Times next month as a "special correspondent", will instead remain at Guardian News & Media to lead a small team of journalists who will experiment with using online tools to develop multimedia storytelling."
Online Journalism Blog: UK general election 2010 – online journalism is ordinary
Friday, 7 May 2010, 11:53
Paul Bradshaw: "Has online journalism become ordinary? Are the approaches starting to standardise? Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election – the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation."
Online Journalism Blog: Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 1: The revolution that never happened
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 12:13
Steen Steensen: "Why … is online journalism still mostly all about producing written text to a mass audience? Why is use of multimedia, hypertext and interactivity still so rare?… Is it only because online newsrooms don’t have the resources they need to be innovative? Or are there other reasons?"
paidContent: Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’
Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 07:44
John Yemma: "While SEO won’t cause readers to flock to stories about urban poverty or the Euro, people who care about those subjects are crucial to us, and—to be blunt—to a certain type of advertiser. They are the influencers, the tipping-point people. Influencers live in narrow channels and respond to articles that make it clear why things matter and how problems are being solved."
Press Gazette: Property Week launches first interactive magazine
Friday, 5 February 2010, 13:49
"… Ceros … page-turning technology … multimedia … Flash … permanent editor … Four editions of the free interactive magazine will be published this year and emailed to Property Week’s quarterly global edition and daily newsletter subscribers." Erm.
Nieman Journalism Lab: Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 17:49
Genius way to illustrate the conundrum facing every news executive thinking of raising a subscription barrier: "Paywall!, our revenue game … allows you to explore the situation at the [New York] Times or at any other news site. …"
Innovative Interactivity: El Mundo wowed me with their Haiti multimedia coverage
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:54
"I have been tracking multimedia work documenting the Haiti earthquake since I wrote about the initial coverage I saw two weeks ago, and I can say without a doubt that El Mundo’s multimedia coverage is the best I’ve seen thus far."
Lost Remote: St. Louis Post Dispatch ‘pops up’ speech facts
Sunday, 24 January 2010, 13:58
"With a tip of the hat to that great VH1 series, 'Pop-Up Video,' the Pop-Up edition of the State of the State mixed in fact-checking with trivia. It’s an entertaining and informative way to watch a speech…"
AP: Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 12:59
"A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday…"
Online Journalism Blog: Ten ways journalism has changed in the last ten years (Blogger’s Cut)
Sunday, 27 September 2009, 13:18
Great piece by Paul Bradshaw, from March 2008 – I particularly like this: "Most read, most commented, most emailed. Hits, pageviews and unique visitors. If you felt your editor’s news sense was as bad as his fashion sense, the measurability of the web gave you valuable ammunition; but if you thought Performance Related Pay was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet."
