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- A tale of three cities - and three media erasby John Mair | Monday 28 May 2012, 09:46Watford, Salford and Savoy Place, London. Over 48 hours last week I spanned all three and tapped into the future and the past of much of our media. It turned out to be a journey backwards in time. First to Watford...Category: Editorial
Future media challenges are about finding compasses not mapsby Charles Miller | Thursday 24 May 2012, 18:03So what came out of the BBC's Connected Communities conference? Well, lots of ideas, the articulation of plenty of complications and frustrations, some flashes of inspiration, and some hard-headed realism - or depressing frankness, depending on how you were...Category: Innovation
How about a newspaper that lets the readers broadcast back?by Graham Holliday | Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:13Imagine a newspaper that talks back to you. A newspaper, on actual paper, that allows you to 'broadcast' content back to the publisher. A newspaper unlike any newspaper that has ever existed. Paul Egglestone from the University of Central Lancashire...Category: Innovation
College of Journalism Innovation Award winner announcedby Charles Miller | Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:10One of the highlights of the Connecting Communities conference was the announcement of the winner of the BBC College of Journalism's first Journalism Student Innovation Award. David Hayward, organiser of the award and the conference, said he was "just...Category: Multimedia
How journalism gave a voice to indigenous communitiesby Graham Holliday | Thursday 24 May 2012, 13:26Ivo Burum brought us the story behind an inspirational citizen journalism project called NT Mojo - a media project created to give a voice to the indigenous people of Australia. After 20 years working in TV, he wanted to teach people...Category: Ethics and Values
A vision of the future media world coming to your localityby Myles Runham | Thursday 24 May 2012, 12:55With the full range of attendees at the Connecting Communities event including hyperlocal bloggers (a disputed term itself), audio bloggers, broadcasters, newsgatherers and publishers, giving a keynote address is an ambitious task. Jon Kingsbury of Nesta (above) took to it by...Category: Internet
Living inside and outside the social media bubble at the same timeby Charles Miller | Thursday 24 May 2012, 11:52There was something for optimists - "journalism is entering a golden age" - and something for pessimists - "traditional media today is a dead man walking" - at the first session of the College of Journalism's Connecting Communities conference...Category: Audience Principles
Why community journalism matters more than everby Paul Egglestone | Wednesday 23 May 2012, 09:45Technology, it's argued, defines how media is created, consumed and distributed. At the same time it can determine the strength of an individual's political voice. Followers of the debate about the decline and fall of the newspaper industry will...Category: Internet
Social media is no excuse for different standards of journalismby Fergus Bell | Tuesday 22 May 2012, 12:47Concorde consumed by flames moments before its fatal crash; a burned child in the arms of a fireman after a bomb killed 168 people in Oklahoma; United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the South Tower of the World Trade Center in...Category: Internet
The way forward for open journalismby Garrett Goodman | Monday 21 May 2012, 11:09As part of Citzenside's role in helping to organise the College of Journalism's Connecting Communites conference, I had a chance to pose a few questions to one of the event's moderators, Charlie Beckett, director of Polis, the media think-tank at the...Category: Ethics and Values
By the community for the community: a new platform for community newsby Paul Egglestone | Friday 18 May 2012, 15:55We are developing an entirely new platform for community news and information by connecting paper to the internet to create what is believed to be the world's first internet-enabled newspaper. Interactive Newsprint is a new research project led by the School...Category: Innovation
Walking the local TV tightropeby Damian Radcliffe | Thursday 17 May 2012, 11:13Damian Radcliffe looks at some local IPTV providers, their plans for the future and whether the Government's plans for local TV will work for them: Last week Ofcom announced the application process for 21 new local television services. Long championed by Jeremy Hunt, and...Category: Internet
Politics, technology and the media - they're all pointing to the localby Rob Dale | Wednesday 16 May 2012, 18:01On 24 May, I am due to speak at the College of Journalism's Connecting Communities conference about how local councils and councillors have reacted to the emergence of community media. But, before looking at the 'how', I want to ask why current...Category: Multimedia
The coming TV revolution - or Tomorrow's World revisitedby Charles Miller | Wednesday 16 May 2012, 17:36Google is "not getting into television production or programming", Peter Barron assured a roomful of programme-makers at the BBC Academy's Fast Train session on 'The Future of TV'. You might have thought otherwise because of the existence of Google TV,...Category: Production
Innovation Award - shortlist announcedby David Hayward | Monday 14 May 2012, 11:49We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the inaugural BBC College of Journalism Postgraduate Journalism Student Innovation Award. The judging process has so far proven to be very tough indeed, because of the incredibly high standard of entries we have...Category: Innovation
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- A vision of the future media world coming to your locality
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