Wednesday morning blog roundup
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 27 June 2007 at 08:42
Tags: Journalism
The Sports Journalists’ Association news blog has 10 commandments for the freelance life from Rob Steen, a lecturer in sports journalism at the University of Brighton.
Former Telegraph web editor Richard Burton wonders why the Evening Standard splashed Paris Hilton’s release from prison yesterday. Chasing the celebrity agenda is no way to differentiate the Standard from its freesheet rivals, Burton suggests.
Martin Belam continues his brilliant series of posts reviewing the functionality of national newspaper web sites, and wonders why Telegraph.co.uk seems to have a “scatter-gun approach” to displaying RSS feeds.
Writing on the BBC’s The Editors blog, News 24 morning editor Simon Waldman says citizen journalism making news again as the BBC has been overwhelmed with user-submitted photographs and videos of the floods. By lunchtime yesterday, it had received 3,000 stills and 300 mobile phone videos.
Alfred Hermida, meanwhile, wonders whether citizen journalism is struggling to catch on. A poll in Canada shows that people rely on mainstream media or coverage of a high-profile murder trail, and only 25 per cent of people are interested in other sources of information like blogs. Still, Hermida concludes, “it would be premature to write off blogs and other forms of new media content”.
Tags: Journalism
