Margaret’s 3rd year journalism blog

Innovations in newspapersInnovation Media Consultants are driving convergent by developing plans for small media outlets; converting their old media into multimedia or ‘new media’ engines.
It also runs the Innovation in Newspapers blog, allowing for a quite comprehensive yet humorous bit of reading. It highlights another benefit of the online convergent world; news can be compared [...]

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BuzzMachine- A blog by Jeff Jarvis
Yesterday, I read an excellent blog titled It is our fault, posted on 8 October 2008  (http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/10/08/it-is-our-fault/) BuzzMachine author, Jeff Jarvis starts by disputing other media people’s opinions that declining newspaper sales are not the journalism industry’s fault. Jarvis calls “bullshit”, stating that those in the industry should have foreseen the changes [...]

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Mobile journalism (mojo)
Mobile journalism is on the rise, particularly with the continual evolution of technology. With increasing quality of pictures and videos from mobile phones, even High Definition quality becoming probable over the next few years, it is becoming more practical for news organisations to utilise this newsgathering tool. 
Many organisations around the world have been taking advanctage of mobile [...]

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What can video-blogging bring to journalism?

This week’s reading topic presents both positives and negatives to the new medium at hand. In this case, we’re talking about video blogs. As Jennifer Woodard Maderazo writes, although there are many low quality video blogs that contain unclear and inconsistent content, she found a few blogs that could prove successful in [...]

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Stomp Singapore: Citizen journalism on the rise
Citizen journalism is becoming more prominent throughout the globe. Similar to OhMyNews in South Korea, Stomp of Singapore Press Holdings in Singapore has seen a significant take off.
 
User generated content has become more frequent as the technology in basic commodities such as mobile phones has rapidly improved.
 
Most [...]

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New Tools: Free Photo Gallery Tools
 
As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, one of the strengths of the web, is the ability to upload photo galleries. This enables news agencies to depict stories more effectively through a series of frames. Some Flash photo gallery sites have galleries that are appropriate for embedding onto a news website, [...]

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New tools for reporting: Storybuilding
The online world makes it easier for journalists to continue storybuilding when news develops throughout the day, week or months following. Essentially the internet enables reporters to add media such as video, audio interviews and even photo galleries of citizen generated images extremely quickly.
For example, the Hurricane Gustav story in today’s [...]

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Everyone a journalist? OhmyNews South Korea

With 60,000 correspondents, it’s the first news organisation with content derived entirely by citizen journalists. This certainly raises the question, what is a journalist?
 

In the opion of Oh Yeon-ho’s, founder and CEO of OhmyNews, a journalist is simply someone who finds something new, then writes about it and shares it with others. [...]

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Business models for multimedia journalism

An article in the Herald Sun boasted News Corp’s 57.2% profit lift, with the Wall Street Journal’s pay to view website gaining large amounts of profit with an 80% jump in online subscriptions.
Although, –unlike a newspaper– most people don’t pay to read daily online news, there are many other ways [...]

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Multimedia storytelling

Multimedia stories use a variety of media to portray a message, pushing the boundaries of traditional print, radio and video journalist roles. New age journalists require the ability to write, interview, frame an image, film action shots, edit and put the story together.
 
Many online news sites take advantage of multimedia stories to provide [...]

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