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Newsgathering online: the missing canoeist
From the Guardian: A single mother put police and journalists to shame in their attempts to unravel the mysterious reappearance of the canoeist John Darwin by using a simple Google search, it emerged today… It was found by the anonymous woman after she tapped in the words “John, Anne and Panama” into Google. She then…
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The first use of the word ‘Journalism’
The first use of the word journalism is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary like this: 1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 (Reviewing a French work ‘Du Journalisme’) ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant..A word was sadly wanted. Ibid. 196 The power of journalism is acknowledged..to be enormous in France. But the OED…
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Google pays for news?
The Sunday Herald had a good little story: So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update) In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal): Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work? Moonves:…
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Journalism by numbers