Medias

The citizen marches on

2007-01-25T12:54:36Z

Yet more doom and gloom for the journalism industry. The citizens are going to overtake us all, unless we're local that is and that's a warning from a journalism professor at my old uni City no less. Yikes!

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Work, it'll kill ya

2007-01-25T12:43:39Z

This has nowt to do with journalism apart from providing a wonderful use of statistics. Writing about the increasingly hazardous Italian workplace, Beppe Grillo declares that in Italy "work is now worse that AIDS" and that "Unemployment is a prob...

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Video steals the show

2007-01-25T12:37:04Z

URL: Blog the Vote Online video. So now. Or is it? Everyone in media circles is talking about it but does anyone really know why? A friend of mine at Forbes.com tells me that they have been able to monetize the video content with great success ...

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War on your screens

2007-01-25T12:35:20Z

URL: Do not ignore Iraq Yet another broadcaster, this time Jon Snow, adds to the growing discontent being voiced over the lack of attention being given to Iraq. I have a story in this week's Press Gazette on that very matter in which ITN'...

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Geek watch

2007-01-12T11:41:08Z

For media folk it's becoming increasingly clear that the geeks shall inherit the earth. But where to they get their information? Well a good starting place is to check out which sites were most visited to check out live-blogging of Steve Jobs' key...

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Are You Beautiful?

2007-01-12T11:33:16Z

Hip NY magazine, Paper has launched an innovative way of finding a subjects. In yet another development in the craaze for UGC, the publication has asked readers to post clips on YouTube to explain why they should be featured in the magazine's Bea...

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MySpacers address the nation

2007-01-11T17:41:35Z

MySpace has launched a headline grabbing contest for its users called “MyState of the Union,” allowing users to submit videos that express their views on where America presently is and where they think it should be going.

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Online video biggest story for media in '07

2007-01-11T17:36:01Z

Online video has the potential to be the biggest positive story for media companies in 2007, so says Peter Chernin president and chief operating officer of News Corp. Speaking at the media and telecommunications conference in Las Vegas he admitte...

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Can I tell you a secret

2007-01-11T17:28:46Z

This could be career suicide but feel the need to share. I don't read newspapers every day. We'll I do but I don't think the Evening Standard really cuts it as required reading in journalistic circles. As someone who spends a minimum of three hou...

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So is the BBC 'anti-politics'?

2006-12-20T13:37:57Z

URL: So is the BBC 'anti-politics'? Barely a week out of the headlines for his "grandstanding" at a White House press conference, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson has posted an uncharacteristically long blog entry where he answers critic...

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