Category: Mainstream Media
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Mainstream media junctions
Mixed signs of the changing times. In the US, The New York Times: The New York Times is to shrink both page size and workforce, in an attempt to deal with tough trading conditions. Following the lead of many other…
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Blogging primer for journalists
Here’s a good example of a mainstream medium that ‘gets it’ concerning its journalists blogging. The Daily Telegraph’s news editor Shane Richmond has posted the Telegraph blogging style guide: […] that we send to our writers when they first start blogging.…
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The BBC’s Second Life
This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC…
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The shift in trust
The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF) today: A major 10-nation public opinion poll exploring Trust in the Media has found that even though the media is more trusted than the national government in half the countries…
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Exposing the past of BBC 2.0
One follow-up to my post yesterday about the BBC’s plans for re-invention – the broadcaster has posted its complete catalogue online, which includes: Details of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years 503,193 subject categories, from Pig Farming…