Filed under: Journalism | Tags: G20, Interactive/citizen journalism, London, News, newspapers, Protests, The City, Twitter
G20 protestors gathered in London
As the G20 protests in the City gathered pace today, I like many others, turned to Twitter to keep updated.
It is at times like this when I fear that newspapers in their print form really are redundant. Who wants to find out the news tomorrow morning when they can watch the action unfold via the many 24 hour news mediums available?
Filed under: Journalism, News comment | Tags: Interactive/citizen journalism, New media, News comment, Online
Speaking to fellow journalism students, the buzz today was all about the atrocious attacks in Mumbai. But what exactly is happening there? I am scrolling through my feeds and listening to the news and I’m confused. There are different stats with each new thing I read.
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Barack Obama, Flickr, Guardian, Interactive/citizen journalism, Online
Journalism is becoming ever more interactive with its audience and I was interested to see this on the Guardian’s website. The paper has invited its readers to post their messages for America’s next president, Barack Obama, on a page the paper set up on Flickr.
Here a couple of examples of what people had to say:
I think this is a good example of allowing interaction between news and its readers and this is what the future of journalism is all about.
Often we (journalists and the news reading public) think that other people just do not care about what is going on in the world. The Flickr site with its pages of messages is another proof- along with the much viewed election coverage- that people do care about what is going on at home and abroad and if given a platform will happily share their views.
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Apple, Chris Brauer, CNN, Interactive/citizen journalism, Steve Jobs
We had a lecture yesterday on the social life of online journalism. In the lecture Chris Brauer spoke about Citizen Journalism. This is an idea which is increasingly opening up new opportunities thanks to online journalism. A lot of national websites (news and corporation sites) now have facilities for people like you and I to leave comments and news stories/information.
This slightly concerns me. I’m all for new journalism and breaking down the hierarchy of the journalist as the source of information and the public willingly lapping it up, without a forum to share their knowledge and opinion. However, the idea that anyone can now put information on a website without it being verified is a bit worrying.
