Posts Tagged ‘citizen journalism’
We are bringing together the some of the most exciting and influential thinkers in the UK digital media scene to share their experience and knowledge with a small number of participants at media140 events in London. These ‘single issue focused’ events are a natural extension of our larger events, but much more of a focus on creating more intimate experiences with a smaller number of people. Allowing everyone who participates a much greater opportunity to debate, engage and collaborate with emphasis on creating conversation and collaboration.
Sky News prides itself on being ‘first with breaking news’, with over 500 journalists reporting and broadcasting from all corners of the globe.
Recently Sky took the bold step of embedding social media into every journalist’s desktop, and mandating the use of Tweetdeck across the news floor. The BBC has also made a similar move.
media140 founder Ande Gregson spent an afternoon with Julian March, Executive Producer for SkyNews.com to find out about the organisation’s recent experiences with social media in Britain’s May 6 general election.
Being fairly fond of these topics, Ande couldn’t help but slip in a few questions about Sky’s views on citizen journalism, paywalls and the future of social news.
Duration 8 minutes 26 seconds. More media140 video at www.vimeo/media140
Image courtesy of Ande Gregson
Ciao! from an exhausted but exhilarated media140 team, here against all volcanic odds in Perugia at the 2010 International Journalism Festival.
It is Day Two of the IJF, and communications media are as clouded by troubles as European skies have been of late.
Several of our team’s mobile phones were rendered defunct by local SIM cards that refused to play nicely on the first day, with a few still suffering into today.
Wi-Fi feels like the memory of a distant dream, and even the plug of the good ol’ fashioned cable in the hotel room seems genuinely reticent to click nicely into the comms ports on our laptops.
Verily, Perugia is a connectivity-junkie’s hell, but the formidable lineup of speakers and excellent content, the extraordinarily friendly and helpful festival staff and the general buzz here more than make up for every last server error and time-out.
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What is more interesting: the world economic downturn, or its immediate effect on your neighbourhood?
We at Media140 do not presume to preempt your news consumption choices, but based on our own – perhaps base – preferences, we are betting on the latter.
After a boom in global Internet news which has lasted the best part of a decade, it seems local perspectives have gained a kind of drawing power of which newspapers can only dream.
Nevertheless, magnificent Media140 blogger Peter Bouvier had never heard of hyper-local news until we asked him to look into the rise and rise of borough- and even block-based micro-sites.
Peter discovered that while they represent geographically small districts, hyper-local sites are taking over large tracts of the online news industry.
Peter works as the social media editor for Britain’s National Health Service, has delusions of grandeur and is currently working on a trilogy of epic children’s poems called the Tales of Tikulo.
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a newsflash.
The monoliths of global and national news organisations are crumbling! Well, okay, that is admittedly not much of a newsflash, since it has been occurring for quite some time. However, it does beg the question; what is replacing them?
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