Month: July 2008

  • links for 2008-07-14

    Sarkozy looking to build national media champion | IHT “We want a BBC à la Française and we want a Murdoch à la Française.” (tags: france bbc rupert-murdoch news-corp sarkozy) Who listens to blogging heads? | Los Angeles Times [Political] blog readers are already habitual voters and need no extra encouragement from blogs to go…

  • Carnival of Journalism

    This being part of the Carnival of Journalism (and late), ringmaster Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and international legal systems to help the digital age, and especially journalism in the digital age, flourish? At the risk of making myself unpopular, in our own digital realm – journalism –…

  • Recruiting citizen video journalists

    In case you wanted to know how to push citizen journalism further in video, a Florida TV station has an interesting plan: Tampa Bay’s 10 is looking for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a special project. We will teach twenty lucky people how to shoot a video camera, and how…

  • How to make money from blogs: books and newspapers

    My friend Charlotte Hume started blogging at exactly the same time I did. My blog is a series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants in the direction of journalism and new media. Hers was an attempt to engage other parents with the problems of making her 7-year-old son, Freddie, eat his vegetables – an attempt that…