James Mitchell

• Times publisher, staff honored for their work
  Contra Costa Newspapers earned top honors at two journalism contests this weekend, winning awards in categories that included breaking news coverage, public service and arts and entertainment.
  (tags: america awards journalism)
• Bursaries on offer to student journalists
  A dozen students have been given a helping hand in training for their chosen career after being chosen to receive a bursary from the Journalism Diversity Fund.
  (tags: sports journalism grants guardian news+international pearson)
• Kelvin MacKenzie: your new LBC breakfast host
  Ever wanted to wake up with Kelvin MacKenzie? Now’s your chance, with the former Sun editor filling in for Nick Ferrari on the LBC breakfast show this week.
  (tags: kelvin+mackenzie lbc radio journalism)
• Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned
  Citizen media initiatives are a hot topic in the media, and the new project, christened Assignment Zero, was widely reported. The New York Times gave it a lengthy, if skeptical, treatment. Would the crowd prove too tough to manage, the reporter asked?
  (tags: citizen+journalism community journalism media crowdsourcing web2.0 wired)
• UGC consumers outnumber UGC creators
  Online marketers might do well to find popular creators of user generated content and advertise with them. That is because, according to a recent eMarketer report, UGC consumers are rabidly consuming the content of a few popular UGC creators.
  (tags: ugc citizen+journalism journalism research)
• Social Networks As the “New Television”
  The real value proposition of social media is that it connects people on a deeply human level with hundreds, thousands, even millions of networked people across time and geography.
  (tags: social+media networking niche)

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