When you look at NSFW pics beware the camera crew
An Aussie bank worker is probably in line for some serious grief from his boss after he was seen looking at naughty pictures of women with very little in the way of clothing, while a colleague was being interviewed by a TV crew from Channel 7.
Sit back and gawp as the camerman zooms in before yer man realises what is happening. (The zoom in is from the Youtube vid as other versions don’t do it)
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How to report the news
Just in case you missed it this week, or on all he other sites.
A picture of journalism skills
I recently asked for help from anyone interested in the future (actually that should probably be futures) of journalism to lend a hand with a mini survey on journalism skills. This was prompted by a number of posts and conversations (you can see a couple of them by following the link above).
In total 75 kind people volunteered their time and effort to answer the questions. I’m going to get to grips with it and add my two pence/cents worth on it over the next few days.
But rather than just sit on it until marking hell becomes a little easier, I’ve screen grabbed the graphs returned by the googledocs form and share them here as a slideshow (in no particular order).
(Just in case you have an issue with Flash widgets, here is the Flickr set of the images)
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Data mashing presentation from @psychemedia at News:Rewired
Haven’t had time to do much with it yet – so thought I’d share rather than wait – but here is the audio from Tony Hirst , aka @psychemedia, who made a presentation on in-browser data mashing at the News:Rewired conference. (again I’ve set it to download, pls link back to this page if you use it etc)
Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) on data mashing by egrommet
And here’s the presentation.
Apologies to the brilliant Francis Irving from MySociety – who gave a great session – my audio recorder cut out and I didn’t know until the end of the session!
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Problem solving the web – news:rewired style
I’m still in the process of thinking about all the great ideas I heard from speakers at News:Rewired last week (and busily catching up on other people’s blogs/tweets/videos for the sessions I couldn’t make).
I managed to record the session on Troubleshooting in Online Journalism with Adam Tinworth, Jon Bernstein, Robin Goad and Malcolm Coles.
News:rewired on troubleshooting online journalism by egrommet
The audio should be downloadable, so if you want to download and hack it about please do – just tell me where you’ve put it and link back to the page pls.
Adam has posted his slideshow from the session, and I’ve embedded it here so you can try and sync the two manually. (I’ll post the start time in due course, as this should be the full session. The audio is a little noisy, but I’ve not had a chance to properly clean it yet.)
This was a pretty interesting session and well worth a listen if you were unable to make it or in a different session.
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Training the next journalists
One of the things that constantly interests me is the range of skills which are being suggested for the next generation of journalists.
There have been a lot of great posts talking about what skills should be taught, what developments there are at j-schools and trying to prepare people for a future very different from the one I trained for.
Patrick Smith posted on Online journalism education in the UK: the trouble with adapting to an online age. Other people that got me thinking along these lines recently were Steve Buttry with his post on curriculum advice for journalism schools and The Changing Newsroom’s My “Dare to Dream” Journalism Curriculum.
We are in the situation where everyone has different spins on the skill set. The core is there and recognisable but everyone has their own favourites – and then there is the whole issue of what platforms.
So, as an interested party I’d like to ask you this – what do you think journalists should know? What skills do you think they need? Can you help by filling out a short(ish) survey?
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Thought for the day: stardate#291109
Thinking thoughts about skill sets required for new journalists, levels of competence and how to support journalists who will not all be required to sell or have business acumen as a core skillset (though not knocking these things by any stretch – part of the bigger picture).
More on this as the thinking develops (or the good links get auto-posted from my del.icio.us account).
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Riding the Wave of journalism
A little while ago, Alison Gow set up a public Wave relating to journalism. Alison and I are both Noobs when it comes to Waving – but I just found a WP plugin that allows you to embed Waves into the blog – so here goes… If you want to play, please just come and join us.
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UPDATED: 29/11/09
After a fair amount of messing and then reinstalling the plug-in – the embed seems to work, but only in Firefox.
Can anyone else see it? Let me know?
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From the sister blog – Rethinking the Academy
I’m currently blogging the Future of Journalism Conference at Cardiff and have just posted on journalism education. Normally I’d do that here – but here’s the link if you are interested.
Slight change of address
Very happy to note that Journalism.co.uk have added me into their links for journo students to follow. This is just to let anyone interested know that I’ve now resumed blogging at journalismtechnology.com – just in case you are interested.