Public Announcement

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…

Citizen Journalism Exercise (Part ll)

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.

Citizen Journalism Exercise

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.

Experimenting with the citizens

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.

Bells, Whistles and Reviews

As an update to a previous post about the news website, Breakingnews.ie, they have unveiled they’re new-look site.

Online Linking

A good example of hyper links and using the internet to augment journalism can be found on the Guardian’s website.

Disresepecting the Flag

A sign of disrespect?

Proud Irish men and women around the country are disrespecting the Irish flag on a regular basis according to the Cathaoirleach of Limerick County Council.

Story post for in-class exercise

This is a story about Ryanair which is done to resemble the online stories which appear on the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper.

Ryanair CEO, Michael O’ Leary, has warned that a “perfect storm” lies in wait for the aviation industry due to rising fuel costs and the weakening of the British Pound.

In-Class Exercise

For the in-class exercise I’m looking at the website for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The home page for the San Diego Union-Tribune prioritises its news stories by giving the lead story and image and each story decreasing in size as they decrease in perceived importance.

Online Newspapers (Exhibit B)

The First Post

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/

This online publication is different to the Huffington Post in both its content and aims. It is a British “publication” so the content feels a bit closer to home and it isn’t updated as regularly. It feels more traditional in the sense that the content is uploaded in the morning and it doesn’t change throughout the day.