In last night's excellent Newswipe, Charlie Brooker:
First he deconstructed last week's TV News coverage of the Islam4UK's proposed march in Wotton Bassett and revealed it is a classic mini moral panic based on what may well have been a very effective publicity stunt. It fits in very well with sociological notions of 'claims makers' and 'moral entrepreneurs'. He made compelling case that by ramping up this story, which had massive moral indigination value, serious racial undertones, the TV news editorial teams threw out any sense of measured coverage.
Secondly he made a hysterical lampoon of the basic TV reporter news package, that left one with a feeling that the whole process is now so formulaic that it seriously needs rethinking.
Its episode two series two.
You can see it again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qbq57
Friday 29 January 2010
Rubicon - Recommends Charlie Brooker's Newswipe
Thursday 28 January 2010
News - ACU Plans to Publish First Student Newspaper on Apple's iPad
> ABILENE, Texas--(<http://www.businesswire.com/>BUSINESS WIRE)--Abilene Christian University's student-run media staff announces its commitment to produce the first paper of its kind for Apple's iPad. Dr. Cheryl Bacon, chair of ACU's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, says students and faculty already are working to achieve this goal.
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> "They tend to use all the tools at their disposal to get information. With the iPad, we foresee the potential for an explosion in news consumption."
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> "This is yet another opportunity for our students to make use of a cutting-edge delivery system -- the third version of mobile media delivery we have pioneered," Bacon says. She cites her department's track record: dissemination of The Optimist student newspaper via iPhone in the fall of 2007; adoption of an updated application in the fall of 2008; and now, ACU's preparation for delivery of The Optimist on the iPad this spring.
News - Guardian sets new web record with nearly 37m users
28 January 2010
The website of The Guardian newspaper has set a new record for online traffic visiting a UK national newspaper for the second month running as 36.98 million global unique users visited its site in December.Guardian.co.uk surpassed the 35.8 million global unique users it attracted in November with a total of 36,980,637 last month, according to figures released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The traffic visiting Guardian.co.uk in December was 61.99 per cent higher than in the same month the previous year.
to read more: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44970&c=1
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Blog Link - Martin Belam: 'What is the value of Linked Data to the news industry?'
Last week I went to a "News Linked Data Summit", organised by The Guardian, the Media Standards Trust, and the BBC. As part of the day I gave a presentation entitled 'What is the value of linked data to the news industry?'. Here is a transcript of my talk.
A detail from Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch's Linking Open Data dataset cloud diagram.
Almost every talk about Linked Data I've seen inevitably at some point shows the 'linked data' universe bubble diagram. Every time I see it, it has grown in size. However, the first time I saw it, I noticed a glaring omission. None of our major UK print-based news organisations featured on it, and that fact is yet to change.to read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2010/jan/25/news-linked-data-summit
News - BBC appoints new head for College of Journalism
27 January 2010
The BBC has appointed Jonathan Baker, deputy head of newsgathering for BBC News, as the new head of its College of Journalism.Baker will replace Vin Ray who will leave his post in the next few months – it’s not known if he will be staying at the BBC.Ray was appointed as the first director of the BBC’s College of Journalism in October 2005 shortly after it launched – news of his departure first emerged on Twitter early last month.The will be replaced by Baker, who has worked in a variety of editorial roles at the BBC, including recently as world news editor responsible for all foreign news coverage, editor for the Ten O’Clock News and the Six O’Clock News.to read more: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44962&c=1
