Tag Archives: New Media

Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy

By Michael Becker | Published: September 29, 2009
I came across this post by Mercedes Bunz in the Guardian about a talk given by Richard Sambrook at the Oxford Social Media Convention. Sambrook is the head of the BBC Global News Division. On the impor­tance of objec­tiv­ity and transparency: Objectivity, he then pointed out, had always been an idea impor­tant for the news. For [...]
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Pat Thornton: Journalism needs to get down and dirty

By Michael Becker | Published: September 10, 2009
Journalism needs to cut down on the excesses and focus on what works cheaply and well, says Patrick Thornton.
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Reporter at NY Post admits that company policy says not to credit bloggers

By Michael Becker | Published: September 5, 2009
TechDirt reports that it's company policy at the New York Post and the New York Daily News not to credit bloggers for scoops.
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Story-streaming

By Michael Becker | Published: August 31, 2009
I’m look­ing back at an older Almighty Link post with new eyes today. In the post, Kevin Sablan from the Orange County Register imag­ines a story-streaming plat­form, sim­i­lar to what some peo­ple do with lifestream­ing. “Thinking of each story as an indi­vid­ual ‘life’ helps iden­tify the oppor­tu­nity for devel­op­ers to cre­ate or mod­ify a plat­form [...]
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BBC editor notes importance of blogging and community

By Michael Becker | Published: August 29, 2009
BBC news edi­tor Richard Preston deliv­ered the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival today. In the lec­ture, Preston tells us that blog­ging has become a vital part of the way he does his reporting: For me, the blog is at the core of every­thing I do, it is the bedrock of [...]
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