online news

Until Twitter came along and blew the lid off news coverage of the Iranian elections last year, many of us were scratching our heads wondering just how social media could help journalism be more interesting.Sure, Facebook helped you market a story to your buddies and you could pick up ...

Just as Nick was about to pull the trigger in the final, deadly game of Russian Roulette in the 'Deer Hunter', the tape in the video machine ran out. As I now know (thanks to the internet), playing time is no indicator of recording time: there was no way the ...

A post on Poynter's e-media Tidbits by Paul Bradshaw caught my eye. It essentially captures something I've been mulling for a while: When is a blogger not a blogger anymore? A typical lifecycle of some successful bloggers is that they start off as small, independent, opinionated writers but then, ...

According to a World Association of Newspapers poll online news will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five years.The Harris Poll also says but newspapers will remain a vital source on their own, and can become dominant if they successfully integrate online delivery as ...

The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere....Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet.It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking ...

Francois Nel from the For the Media blog pointed me towards his blog recently (pretty good, I must say). This post in particular caught my eye. He broadly examines why online newspapers in South Africa are not cracking it, compared to their world counterparts.For Francois -- it's down to leadership:It ...

Magazines have not enjoyed the same high profile, runaway success of their newspaper counterparts in the online world....Magazines aren’t big online. Websites of print magazines have had a rather low profile in more than 10 years of internet in this country. Compare this to the high-profile online news brands that ...

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism website in Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.zaThe relentless pace of technology is turning everyone into citizen reporters. Anyone with a cellphone camera is a potential citizen photographer. Anyone with a blog is a potential citizen reporter or columnist.   Citizen journalists both collaborate and compete with ...

What is your opinion on the general attitude of the newspaper industry towards the merging of online and print?I think there are sceptics and believers. There will be a measure of merging, but I believe that online and print will also continue to co-exist as distinct products, offering similar or ...

Ok play is over. Need to do some business here. Conference is tomorrow where I'll be chatting about online journalism vs traditional journalism.This is often how today's changing media world is portrayed:1. online journ VS print journ; online newspapers VS newspapers ; ...