Barack Obama on Newsweek
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 10:27
Newsweek brands its entity landing pages "Newsweekopedia": "With Newsweekopedia, we collect all the news coverage, commentary, photography and multimedia stories published by Newsweek over the years on subjects ranging from Abba to Zoology. Each page of this unmatched knowledge resource combines the world-class content with your comments and best coverage from other news sites."
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Trinity Mirror titles launch wiki for the North-East
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:28
"Trinity Mirror put out a national call to staff to come forward with bright ideas in a bid to find 'the next big thing.' … The competition was won by web developer Louise Midgley, who works for Trinity's North-East division… [She] has already received a cash prize and … will also win a future share of any profits from her idea."
Wiki North East – An interactive archive for and about the people, places and events of the North East
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:21
A clever idea from Trinity Mirror's papers in Newcastle and Teesside: "Wiki North East is a collaboration of editorial articles and user generated content for and about the people, places and events of the North East."
Wired: Threat LeveL: Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 07:57
"Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. … Knight-Batten also awarded $2,000 special distinction awards to Politifact.com and Ushahidi."
Wired: Listening Post: Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Data
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 09:10
Amazon launches user-editable music database: "To get the ball rolling, Amazon has included music information from its retail site as well as data from the Internet Movie Database and Musicbrainz … As with Wikipedia, users can edit this information, but not directly. All changes must be vetted by Amazon staff before appearing on the site."
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 17:16
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Sports Illustrated digital president Jeff Price: archive launching today could be combined with a "companion Wikipedia-like section within the Vault that users will be able to contribute to."
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 09:24
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Scientific American made conjoined twins out of [Journalism 2.0 and Science 2.0.] last week with its latest experiment in networked journalism: an article about networked science.
Covering a General Election, Google style
Monday, 17 September 2007, 12:17
Google Australia has launched a site to cover that country’s 2007 federal election using many of its existing tools.
As TechCrunch reported, the site combines links party-political YouTube videos, a Google Maps mashup containing information on candidates by constituency, “election gadgets” to let users of Google personalised homepage track statements from MPs and Senators, plus [...]
New wiki launched for digital journalists
Friday, 10 August 2007, 13:10
Christian Dunn, head of digital news at the Evening Leader in Wrexham, has set up a wiki for digital journalists to gather knowledge and exchange ideas.
Unlike blogs or forums, a wiki allows all users to contribute to each page on the site. Dunn is hoping to get other digital journalists to join the site and [...]
Monday, 9 July 2007, 15:46
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Paul Bradshaw needs your contributions to a wiki about the use of wikis in journalism.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 18:26
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Steve Yelvington: "Every day, millions of pieces of information stream through the newsrooms of every newspaper in the world. … Very little is put to good long-term use."
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 11:44
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Mashups and wiki-based "political reporting resources like Congresspedia, are increasingly giving ordinary citizens the ability to easily document the flow of special-interest money and how it influences the legislature."
UK libel in the New Republic (plus journalists’ Wikipedia vanity)
Friday, 27 April 2007, 10:19
Press Gazette’s diarist, the shadowy Axegrinder, is becoming more web-savvy. The online version of his column is now a blog, and this week’s installment contains two items that could also have ended up here, and will be of interest to the newsroom geeks who read this blog.
UK libel law and online publication
In one post, Axegrinder [...]
