Online journalism

17 top journos to follow on Twitter during the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing

The world has pretty much been glued to Twitter since news broke that renowned paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius had apparently shot and killed his…

Can corporate media survive the falling value of online content?

My 2013 prediction warned of the continued fall in the value of online content which would lead to the production of ever more content…

2013: the year corporate media will ascend and all media will spiral

When it comes to making industry predictions I always resolve not to make any, but as you can see, I have trouble keeping my…

Can BuzzFeed usher in a new golden age of journalism and advertising?

It was just over a year ago that BuzzFeed hired editor-in-chief Ben Smith away from Politico to help build the cat-happy publication into a…

12 top tech security tips for journos to follow in 2013

There are a lot of places where journalists aren’t really welcome and there are plenty of people out there looking to find chinks in…

Pageview journalism: economic reality or capitulation to pop culture whims?

Ryan Holiday, writing for the New York Observer, has discovered something very important about the media industry today: The widespread belief is that the…

How fake press releases could kill SEO for real press releases

SearchEngineLand has a very good, long look at the recent fake press release announcing Google’s US$400-million acquisition of Wi-Fi company ICOA. PRWeb distributed the…

User-generated content: Myths and lessons learnt

Demotix is a London-based, award-winning “citizen journalism” website and photo agency. The site has around 15 000 members in 190 countries who contribute content…

Ten things newsroom managers need to know about journalism now

For print newspapers to survive and possibly flourish as digital businesses, some new rules are needed. And they are not necessarily the ones they…

The media is dying, long live the media

Did you know that the first printed books in England would leave a blank rectangle at the beginning of a chapter so that an…

The digital revolution and the fight for journalism

One of the great joys of my annual trip to London as a judge of the CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the year awards,…

Coming to a phone near you: Six examples of how social media took the starring role in the 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…

Why News Roulette is such a great idea

Just as Nick was about to pull the trigger in the final, deadly game of Russian Roulette in the ‘Deer Hunter’, the tape in…

Learning from the Telegraph

On May 24 1844 Samuel Morse sent his message over a copper wire from Baltimore to Washington. The telegraph was the starting point of…

Citizen journalism to shake up SA?

After landing a job as the Citizen Journalism Trainer at Grocott’s Mail, I sat down to do some research on the subject. So I…

Who paid the town crier?

I heard the death knells three years ago. I was a regular features contributor to The Scotsman, the Scottish daily newspaper. I’d written an…

Don’t build a pay-wall laager; just do a deal with the plumbers

Take a gathering of the retired editors in February 2010. They’re putting their greying heads together to judge this year’s Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Journalism…

Bloggers can now enter major journalism award

Just noticed that the Telkom ICT Journalist of the year award now has a “Citizen Journalist” category, accepting entries from blogs or personal websites….

We Media

Journalism on the internet is becoming a “conversation” rather than a “sermon”. Mainstream media should take note. What’s going on with the internet these…

As United States and British forces push through Iraq towards Baghdad, another kind of war is in progress: a battle between TV, radio, newspapers and websites to be the first to bring their audience breaking news on Iraq.

Revenge of the amateurs

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism offering via Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.za One of the first images of the Asian Tsunami crisis came…

Why SA’s Online Journalism is Rubbish

When will online journalism make a real impact in this country? Matthew Buckland says that until online starts to publish more original stories, it’s…

The power of information

People are still asking today how it was that the world failed to mobilise during the Rwanda genocide. Nearly a million Africans were hacked…

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