BBC:
What kind of technology does the modern multimedia reporter need to master - and where is the boundary these days between the professionals and amateurs? Two questions I've been debating over the last couple of weeks with journalism students at the Cardiff School of Journalism, and with colleagues from other broadcasting or (Read More)
feeds.latimes.com:
According to Chicago Mayor Richard "Have a Nice Day" Daley, you can just blame (credit) that dad-gummed media again for chasing that Windy City institution Oprah off of television after compiling a personal federal reserve of only about $2.3 billion.Oprah has announced she'll close down her daily syndicated chatfest in 201 (Read More)
feeds.latimes.com:
Regular Ticket readers know how much we enjoy the Onion. This video was too good to resist. (It might take a moment to load.)So in honor of casual Friday, here's that important institution's faux report on an important disaster that reportedly threw the president and his entire family into turmoil.As it no doubt would any (Read More)
BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst t (Read More)
L.A. Times - Opinion Blog:
I met Tim Russert only once, before a "Meet the Press" debate between two Senate candidates from my home state of Pennsylvania. Russert was engaging, impressively au courant with Keystone State politics and, well, a nice guy. I also admired his work, and I was sad when he died before his time. (You never hear about someone (Read More)
CNN:
You may remember articles (and posts) about the pianos in the streets of London, placed outside where anyone could play them. And later, a similar project in Brazil. Well now the concept has come to America. Ybor City (pronounced E-bor) Florida (Tampa area) to be exact. My friend Kathy pointed out an article in the St. (Read More)
feeds.latimes.com:
A few weeks ago, Fox News had the White House on the defensive. Network anchors were scoring political points by ridiculing President Obama for ignoring the largest news cable audience in television. Glenn Beck pounded green-jobs czar Van Jones, who eventually resigned.Today, it's Fox News that's on the defensive, after anc (Read More)
Stepcase Lifehack:
Granted, the year’s not done yet, but publishers start to slow down new releases right about now, so it’s not likely we’ll see another contender for “best of 2009” until January. Plus, Christmas is coming up, and I wanted to give you plenty of time to read some of these books before you give copies to your friends and relat (Read More)
BBC:
Facebook is under fire this morning, accused of neglecting its responsibility to help to keep young internet users safe. The charge comes from Jim Gamble of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, who wants Facebook (and MySpace) to follow the lead of Bebo in including Ceop's "Report button" in its social netwo (Read More)
CNN:
Joy talks with her panel about their reaction to Sarah Palin's media tour in light of her interviews with Oprah and Barbara Walters.
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CNN:
Adobe has announced an update to its live audio and video capturing utility, Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1. The app is designed as a media encoder that streams both audio and video in real time to Flash Media Server software or the Flash Video Streaming Service. Users can perform up to three simultaneous encodes and save dat (Read More)
John Gapper's Business Blog:
Sitting in Qingdao at the FT Chinese annual forum, I am confronting at first hand the shift in the pattern of Chinese censorship towards social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
It is easy to access media sites such as the websites of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Twittering or adding an [...]. (Read More)
Tech Blog:
Apologies for our second post of the day on social gaming, but the news just keeps on coming in this hot area for the industry.
In fact, the arrival of Twitter and Facebook on the Xbox today is not social gaming in the strictest sense, and the emergence from stealth mode of social game developer CrowdStar [...]. (Read More)