OJB: What online publishers can learn from Ofcom’s internet research
Writing on the Online Journalism Blog, Paul Bradshaw shares key points from the internet section of Ofcom’s latest report on The Communications Market 2010, analysing the implications of each for...
View ArticleOnline Journalism Blog: SE1′s James Hatts on Hyperlocal Voices
Paul Bradshaw’s Hyperlocal Voices series takes a look at the SE1 site this week. The site has been running for 12 years and boasts half a million visits every month. Well worth a read for anyone in the...
View ArticleOJR: Promoted tweets – the AdWords for live news?
Al Jazeera has started paying for tweets to promote its English-language Egypt coverage in the US. Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog compares the move to newspapers using Google Adwords to drive...
View ArticleThe New York Times paywall: what do people think?
So what have people been saying about the New York Times paywall (or fence, ramp, meter, porous paywall, nagwall or even ‘metered-access digital subscription system’, if you prefer)? It was announced...
View ArticleFacebook lessons: from Paul Bradshaw and PageLever
Yesterday Paul Bradshaw shared his experience of running a blog entirely through a Facebook Page for four weeks, offering his thoughts on the month-long project in a post back on his Online Journalism...
View Article#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – interactive map tutorial for local...
Any journalists reporting on the local elections may like to try out this interactive Google map tutorial for visualising council ward boundaries, on the Online Journalism Blog. The guide to creating...
View ArticleBlog08: The never-ending journalism vs blogging debate continues…
Bloggers Hugh McLeod, Loren Feldman, Pete Cashmore and Elisabeth Winkler get up on stage to answer questions from the floor and the live backchannel at Twitter. Rick Slagter asks the first question:...
View ArticleReflections on Blog08 and ideas for next year’s event
So the brief day that was Blog08 is over and our blogging reporter, Anne Helmond, is back home. She rounds up over on her own blog, with a few after-thoughts. She also rounds up a presentation by a...
View ArticleSocial network for journalism researchers
Journalism lecturer and blogger at the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), Paul Bradshaw, has set up a rather nifty social network for journalism and news researchers using Ning: “It’s an attempt to provide...
View ArticleLA Times: Micropayments – a rainbow for journalism… or a Hail Mary?
The prospect of micropayments for news raises its head once again. This article follows in the wake of David Carr’s piece in the NY Times, ‘Let’s invent an iTunes for news’ which has been neatly...
View ArticleMalcolm Coles: re-thinking newspapers and RSS feeds
“OK, newspapers shouldn’t turn off RSS feeds… I was wrong,” writes Malcolm Coles. After a little reflection on comments received about his post ‘ Newspapers: Turn off your RSS feeds‘ [also pasted on...
View ArticleOnline Journalism Blog: Help map local blogs in the UK
A call to action on behalf of the Online Journalism Blog, which with the help of Matt Wardman, is attempting to build a map of locally-focused blogs in the UK. You can submit the name of any local...
View ArticleOnline Journalism Blog: #skypic – how one Twitterer got Sky to pay for his...
Really good round-up from Paul Bradshaw on the Online Journalism Blog of the case of Joe Neale, whose photo of a crime scene at Waterlook station was used by Sky News after Neale posted it to Twitter....
View ArticleOnline innovator to leave university post after ‘complicated decision’
Online journalism innovator Paul Bradshaw has taken voluntary redundancy from his post as course leader for the online journalism MA at Birmingham City University, in what he says was a “complicated...
View ArticleHacks and Hackers look at health, education and leisure
Online journalism expert Paul Bradshaw gives a detailed post on his experiences of a recent Hacks and Hackers day in Birmingham organised by Scraperwiki, experiences which he claims will “challenge the...
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