Monday 25 January 2010
Blog link - Media Standards Trust submits 28 PCC reform recommendations
Saturday 23 January 2010
Blog Link - excellent account of AJE seminar on young journalists as entrepreneurs
January 21st, 2010
from rcampbell at University of Glamorgan
Bang goes the mainstream media, and in its place grows a patchwork of little journalistic start-ups, with young entrepreneurs using the finest of tools to mine the narrowest seams of under-exploited revenue.
The heralds of this new media utopia are persuasive indeed, but I’ve always thought that if the big media companies, with their distribution networks and sales teams, cannot make money out of news then surely nobody can.So it was refreshing to hear from some who have made it work.Meet Danny, Jack and James, of Little White Lies , Bad Idea , and London-Se1 .
They are young journalism entrepreneurs, who recently shared their thoughts with journalism lecturers at the January seminar of the AJE . Delegates also heard about Goldsmith College’s East London Lines start-up, and about the way students are working with a hyperlocal news site in Newcastle.
And the icing on the cake (more icing later) was a skype chat with Jeff Jarvis speaking from his desk at CUNY.
to read ful blog:
http://journalism.weblog.glam.ac.uk/2010/1/21/entrepreneurial-journalismFriday 22 January 2010
Blog Link: The clause that concerns us all
Business secretary Peter Mandelson’s proposed Digital Economy Bill has ruffled a few feathers in the new media world, but has also gained support from unions and industry bodies. The fate of the bill could have a significant impact on the future of internet use in Britain, and on the growth of new media.It is difficult to work out just who would benefit if the bill was successfully passed, apart from the government, which stands to gain millions in taxes. It is being touted as an effort to keep pace with technological change, yet in the same breath, threatens to severely limit access and creativity.to read more:
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/01/22/the-clause-that-conerns-us-all/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+onlinejournalismblog+%28Online+Journalism+Blog%29 Discussion - Privacy motion at Cambridge Union
Papers: Call for Abstracts on the Politics of Digital Media in the Balkans and the Middle East.
Editors: Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University) and Zala Volcic (University of Queensland)
We invite abstract submissions for an edited book on the creation, dissemination, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Balkan and Middle East contexts provide interesting case studies because of their overlapping patterns of national and regional identification combined with the tensions these create.
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