Archive for January, 2007
Michael Hill has very kindly given us permission to make his PowerPoint presentation available. It can be downloaded from the Media Department website at http://www.mediacourses.com/_docs/UCE%20Birmingham%20Jan%202007.ppt
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Ian Forrester has very kindly posted video of both Tom Reynold’s talk about blogging, and Vicky Taylor’s talk about user generated content – as well as the concluding panel discussion.
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Tom Reynolds has posted about his anticipation of the conference (I hope it proved painless), and included a link to his PowerPoint presentation.
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You can trust a columnist to come up with a position to spark off some debate. And as for a Daily Mail columnist…
Keith Waterhouse has his perspective on bloggers: “I cannot be doing with blogging, bloggers or blogs”, he says. But as for photobloggers? Ah, they’re different.
“This Damascus U-turn took place in the aftermath [...]
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“Dying” To Be An Editor
The Conference today ended with a more or less open discussion about citizen journalism, User Generated Media or what we want to call it. The discussion was mostly about the Saddam Hussein footage recorded on a mobile phone during his execution. The focus seemed to be pretty much on who was responsible for whether we [...]
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The concluding panel debate of the day was kicked off by a consideration of the Saddam Hussein hanging footage. Should news editors have chosen to use the images? Does taste and decency have a role – or a meaning – in the new media age? As bloggers are not subject to the same regulatory restraints [...]
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The third speaker at the Citizenship Journalism Conference was Vicky Taylor, Head of Interactivity at the BBC, who introduced us to the way the BBC deals with and uses user-generated content.
Vicky Taylor, who likes to avoid the notion of talking about “Citizenship Journalism” as such, and prefers the more general definition of user-generated content, [...]
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Hands Up If You Are a Blogger…
Picking up drunks for a living may not sound very interesting, but that was the definition Tom Reynolds gave of his job as an ambulance driver. An ambulance driver that loves blogging, and hates citizen journalists – or rather, hates the word.
In Tom’s speech he carefully outlined the differences between “Journalists” and “Bloggers”. In a very [...]
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The times, they are a changing
”35 years left for newspapers” (prof. Mayor) and “You don’t need newspapers to get news anymore” were the opening statements given by Michael Hill, Trinity Mirror plc. Not a positive outlook, but don’t despair: Hill is one of a new wave of media figures who accept the changes occuring in the modern newsroom.
Newspapers have had [...]
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