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Press Gazette: Sky News Supreme Court feed ‘attracts 90,000 a day’

Monday, 5 September 2011, 15:15

"Sky News’ live video stream from the Supreme Court attracts an average 90,000 visitors a day, according to the channel’s head of news John Ryley. The figure was cited in an open letter sent by Ryley to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in which he…

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Telegraph: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting

Monday, 22 August 2011, 12:03

"Sky News sources told The Daily Telegraph that the astonishing footage from the streets of Tripoli was produced using an Apple Mac Pro laptop computer connected to a mini-satellite dish that was charged by a car cigarette lighter socket."

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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…

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Sky News Editors’ Blog: Supreme Court Live

Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:29

"Sky News has today become the first place where you can watch continuous live video coverage of the UK Supreme Court. This is a significant event because the Supreme Court is the only UK court which allows cameras at all, apart from some very res…

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Sky News Editors’ Blog: Supreme Court Live

Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:29

"Sky News has today become the first place where you can watch continuous live video coverage of the UK Supreme Court. This is a significant event because the Supreme Court is the only UK court which allows cameras at all, apart from some very res…

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Strange Attractor: Sky News got the argument it wanted

Thursday, 4 November 2010, 19:37

Suw Charman-Anderson: "Ultimately, you get the community that your marketing deserves. If you market your forums as News Fight Club Online, you’re going to get exactly that. Asking people if they are ‘looking for an argument’ sets up an expectation in the user of extreme hostility, so they will react intemperately to the slightest thing."

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E-Media Tidbits: TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News

Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 08:35

"[Julian] March is so serious about [Tweetdeck's] value that he is making social media literacy an objective on his digital media staff's performance reviews. 'I want to see social media become a part of the fabric of the day-to-day work,' he said."

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NetNative: Haiti 2.0: A case study in real time news

Thursday, 14 January 2010, 08:00

How Sky News gathered information from Haiti via Twitter, Facebook and Skype.

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Journalism.co.uk: New tools for Sky journalists as social media strategy moves from one to many

Saturday, 9 January 2010, 11:49

"Sky News is installing [Tweetdeck] Twitter software across its journalists' computers, as part of plans to encourage more use of social media for newsgathering and reporting."

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Techcrunch UK: Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV – Creates a Twitter Correspondent

Thursday, 5 March 2009, 17:04

Sky News memo: "The Online team is using Ruth Barnett as a “Twitter correspondent” – scouring Twitter for stories and feeding back, giving Sky News a presence in the Twittersphere."

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Long-expected new site getting close…

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The first Sky News Unplugged, the new online-only programme from the rolling news station.

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Dave Lee quotes the Sky News Online induction pack: “Your stories appear on the web thanks to HTML, the computer language. Fortunately you need to know very little about how it works.”

Fleet Street 2.0

@DNA2008: Sky News to embed SkyCast video sharing tool

Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 09:21

Sky News plans to embed a white-label version of Sky’s video sharing tool, SkyCast, into news pages on to encourage user submissions of video.
Sky News associate editor Simon Bucks noted the move in a panel on user-submitted content at the DNA conference in Brussels today.
Sky News already has a still photo sharing section on its [...]

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