Category Archives: Sky.com

@DNA2008: Sky News to embed SkyCast video sharing tool

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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 [...]

@Society of Editors – Simon Bucks: Grow membership in broadcast and online

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The new president of the Society of Editors, Sky News associate editor for online, Simon Bucks, has delivered his inaugural address, the last event of the conference. Bucks, who earlier this year publically recanted his skepticism about the value of interactive journalism, says online has “most of the fun of television, although you don’t have to [...]

@Society of Editors – Football economics coming to online journalism salaries?

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The final session of the conference is “The Future is ours: 2020 Vision”, which is billed as “ifting the covers on editors’ crystal balls”. Appropriately, the panel will be chaired by Martin Stanford, presenter of Sky.com News, the rolling news channel’s interactive programme which covers the most popular stories and debates on the web. He reveals [...]