PCC wants to take podcast complaints

Posted by Martin Stabe on 5 November 2006 at 07:37
Tags: Ethics, Journalism, Podcasting, Press Complaints Commission, Society of Editors, Vodcasting, text, video

The Press Complaints Commission wants to accept complaints about podcasts found on newspaper’s web sites, reports Stephen Vass in the Sunday Herald.
The Sunday Herald report also suggests that convergence is proving a bit of a headache for PCC chairman Sir Christopher Meyer — while newpapers’ audio and video content appears to be covered by the PCC code, text on broadcasters’ websites is not.

BBC progamme enlists bloggers for election coverage

Posted by Martin Stabe on 25 October 2006 at 13:52
Tags: BBC, Blogs, Journalism, Podcasting, Radio, Vodcasting

BBC Five Live’s programme Up All Night is hoping enlist citizen journalists’ help to cover the US election.

The programme is looking for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers who are covering their local races, along with “people with an interesting perspective” willing to offer personal views.

On the progamme’s blog, Chris Vallance wrote: “Our hope is that by enlisting your help we’ll have coverage that isn’t just about pundits and experts but gives us a real flavour of what the race is like for ordinary Americans that cuts through some of the stereotypes about politics in the US.”
The plan has gained the attention of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and the Sunlight Foundation — one of the groups behind an earlier successful networked journalism effort. That should bring it to wider attention among American bloggers.

Contempt charges for video blogger

Posted by Martin Stabe on 19 September 2006 at 09:51
Tags: Blogs, Contempt of Court, Ethics, Journalism, Sources, Vodcasting

A video blogger in California lost his appeal over contempt charges after he refused to turn over video he shot at a demonstration. Joshua Wolf, 24, had filmed a G8 demonstration in San Francisco which turned violent. Wolf is currently free on bail, but federal prosecutors have filed a motion to have him jailed while the appeals process continues.

Update: Wolf’s bail has been revoked.