Category: News

  • Facebook: future of news or just for fun?

    Is social media the future of news? Maybe, but if you look at the apps being developed for Facebook you’ll get an idea of what really plays on the site. [HT: Flowing Data]

  • A news map of the United States

    Love this map [HT: Howard Weaver], which plotted 72,000 wire stories between 1994 and 1998. In population terms Chicago should be half the size of New York, but it comes out at only a fifth the size. But when your biggest cultural achievement is pizza, only doughier…

  • Prince Harry: how news travels

    On 7 January, 2008, an Australian magazine reports: Prince Harry has joined his regiment on a covert mission to Afghanistan and his unit has already seen front line action. Not seen in public since the middle of December, New Idea can exclusively reveal that despite opposition from senior members of the British government and the…

  • Can you make kids media literate?

    What exactly is media literacy? The British government takes it terribly seriously. At least it charges the UK broadcast regulator, Ofcom, with promoting it. And they chose to promote it with the BBC by putting on a news day – called School Report – for kids aged 12 to 13. You could retitle the exercise…