Newswatch 06

On Thursday June 8 Bournemouth Media School is presenting Newswatch 06 , a one day forum organised in partnership with the Associated Press news agency and UK Press Gazette. The forum will focus on changing patterns of news consumption in the digital age and will feature top speakers from the broadcast and print worlds as well as a significant contribution from BMS lecturer Mark Passera.

Details at http://www.newswatch06.com/

Salam Pax - the movie

At first there were blogs, then there were books from blogs and now Hollywood is taking note. Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger, is going to have a movie made about him and his despatches from Iraq. His online diary Where is Raed? was serialised in the Guardian before being turned into a book.

Links!

Link to other articles and resources such as the BBC.
A better idea - link to your articles. Self-serving - yes! Welcome to the blogosphere - but if you want to get a job, a little self-promotion will go a long way....

And if you want to do a picture, click on the picture icon in the tools bar above (on blogger) and cut and paste the url of the pic and upload. Don't have a tools bar?
Get a better browser and go to Firefox.

O Lordi 2

Next blog session is at 10. Get started at blogger.

Next at 12. Go to Jeff Jarvis' blog to read more about the power of the blog.

Go to - technorati, the search engine for blogs - and see what's out there.

O Lordi...

So that's 20 more blogs set up. Next session at 12. Tomorrow at 10 and 12.


You can use the tool bar above to upload images (the pic icon) and to show links. Highlight word or words and click on to chain icon above and type in url (web address).

Always preview your work before you publish to check it is how you want it and that headline works and spelling is correct - use ABC tool bar above to do this. Post regularly and send your blog web address to friends and colleagues and ask them to comment on your feature project and your blog.

On your marks...

Get ready for the blog workshop and have a peek at Blogger. See you at 10 on Monday.

Blog workshops

Not one of my best headlines. Ahem. I'm with Alexei Sayle when he says workshop is one of the worst words in the English language. However, on Monday and Tuesday next week Dan Hogan and I will be heading up four workshops to get everyone up to speed and answer the question: why should journalists read or write blogs?

Details of the workshops are on Media 2 with a list of links. Here are some more blogs and sites that are worth looking at - South Korea's OhMynews (as long as you can read Korean but there is always the international version. Click on to it find out why the International Herald Tribune is considering using some of the material. instapundit and this story on BBC guidelines for Beeb blogs.

If you need cheering up BA third year student, Andrew McGill, recommends this.

Any more I need to know about?

(Updated on June 7 2006 with amendment about IHT.)

Training for online jobs

Some thoughts here on training for online journalists in Press Gazette's guide. But since I wrote this piece many mid-career journalists have asked me what they should do and where they could go for a short course or a refresher. I'm going to have to do some more research....watch this space.

Webucation, webucation, webucation

Are you digitally literate? And if you are, how do you use the web for educational purposes? It's not as a easy as it sounds - universities can engage in distance learning projects, launch blogs and set up their community sites but how do you get students to engage? For that matter, how do you get the educators to engage when so many are cynical about what the web has to offer.

The debate at last week's blogging seminar got cut off in its prime but some useful material including links can be found here.

So who do you trust?

Which form of media do you trust most? This is one of several questions in an online poll organised by the BBC and Reuters as part of the We Media conference. The poll is still taking votes but the result so far is rather surprising.

Of the 45,000 who have taken part so far, 35% say news websites, 20% newspapers, 18% blogs, 15% TV and 12% radio. I'll be checking back later this week to see if the figures change much.