The fruits of my semester-long labour (see illustration left) in this course (Online Journalism in DCU) are now available for all to see on the page above called Final project. Read it, comment on it, do what you will. I will not take criticism but I may take money…
Public Announcement
Posted by ptobin on May 8, 2008
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All around the world…
Posted by ptobin on April 23, 2008
A technical innovation, on this very website, proves in yet another way how the internet is shaping journalism. If you look to your right you (should) see a little map of the world decorated with red dots.
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Citizen Journalism Exercise (Part ll)
Posted by ptobin on April 22, 2008
Ah the good ol’ Examiner, or Irish Examiner as its referred to round these parts. Analysing the website with regard to the addition of participatory journalism features will be like asking a trusted old friend if he might need some plastic surgery. Its both innapropriate and frankly, quite insulting.
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Citizen Journalism Exercise
Posted by ptobin on April 22, 2008
NowPublic is a citizen journalism site which dedicates itself to news on a global level. The question as to whether or not it is ‘proper’ journalism is interesting in that the featured stories on the homepage are listed as the top five crowd powered stories of the past 24 hours yet they are hardly news at all. Read the rest of this entry »
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Media on Media Violence
Posted by ptobin on April 22, 2008
The AUSC Annenberg Online Journalism Review is an interesting website in that it focuses on the media and the actions and performance of online media outlets.
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Citizenside – A professional agency? Hmmm…
Posted by ptobin on April 22, 2008
The French are at it too. It seems that every country from Korea to the U.S., and now France have some sort of online outlet for the aspiring citizen journalists they house in their towns and cities.
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User-Generated Newspapers
Posted by ptobin on April 22, 2008
Yet more on citizen journalism and user generated content. A community platform website, Kluster, has announced plans to launch a daily online newspaper with the content generated solely by users.
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Experimenting with the citizens
Posted by ptobin on April 15, 2008
A website which has decided to test out the inevitable rise of citizen journalism is Newassignment. This website which, ironically enough, was born of a blog post, aims to establish the merits of open-source journalism in collaboration with various news partners.
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The Washington Post V Aljazeera: Sneaky versus Obvious
Posted by ptobin on April 15, 2008
Ding ding! Its the battle of the websites. The Washington Post versus Aljazeera. The rules are simple folks, this fight will be won or lost on advertising.
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ITN jump on the Youtube wagon
Posted by ptobin on April 14, 2008
ITN has harnessed the global appeal and potential of video sharing site, Youtube. They have launched their news channel on the website and promise to deliver “breaking news videos” to the masses.
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