Australian magazine broke Prince Harry story Australians angrily condemned the decision of a weekly women’s magazine to break the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan. The story was published in Australian tabloid magazine New Idea last month but not followed up by other media. (tags: journalism royal+family australia) More Americans turning to Web [...]
Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter This evening’s earthquake in England, which was first broken over the microblogging service, is proof positive of Twitter’s value as a vehicle for news distribution. (tags: twitter technology journalism breaking+news) Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank Fouad Mourtada, a 26-year-old engineer, was sentenced by a Casablanca court [...]
The lesson: Journalism In March, students across the UK are being given the opportunity to become journalists for a day: Newsday 2008, in association with learnnewsdesk.co.uk, encourages students to write, edit and assemble their own newspapers. (tags: journalism education training) Obituary: John Ardagh The book that gave the journalist John Ardagh, who has died aged [...]
New York Times Launching Its Mobile-To-PC Content Sharing Service The New York Times Co is launching a service today called ShifD that sends your content to the cloud to make it easily accessible from your computer, phone or other devices. (tags: mobile newspaper+websites new+york+times)
Lord Falconer’s plan to remove news from online archives during trials is unworkable News organisations should remove from their online archives articles relating to high-profile court cases, Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, said yesterday. (tags: journalism legal) Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting A cornerstone of journalism has always [...]
