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What’s the BBC’s approach to training for online journalism? I spoke to Nick Shackleton-Jones, the BBC’s Manager for Online & Informal Learning and lead behind the BBC College of Journalism. (This post first appeared on Paul Bradshaw’s onlinejournalismblog.com.)
What is it you do, and what’s the BBC’s approach to multimedia training, development and learning?

To celebrate 100 posts, I’m taking a leaf out of Paul Bradshaw’s blogbook (1000 things he’s learnt about blogging) and reflecting on what I’ve learnt over the last nine months. A small thanks to Paul, as he’s certainly one of my top five blogs I check every day, and from whom I have learnt a [...]

Just some links this morning on different ‘green and local’ issues in the press (and to celebrate UN World Population Day).
The Knight Science Tracker does a crawl of environmental reporting, and reporting on environment each day, and last night picked up on this serendipity of similar reporting across continents:

In the Times of India, the story [...]

Just reviewed this site for the JournalismEnterprise.com blog, run by Paul Bradshaw over at Birmingham City Uni. You can read the full review over there.
What do they say it is?
“Friction.tv believes that disagreement - or friction - is a vital element for a healthy debate, to reach new insights and to find out what’s [...]

It hasn’t exactly crept up on me. I was aware of the BBC plans, as I was working on a similar design build at my last editorial management job. Ajax technology, the dashboard, coverging media, putting the user in control as the philosophy behind the new careers site, Creative Choices. But now the BBC changes [...]

This is a shocker. Blogs gaining and gaining in power. Well, but then it is CNN.

Being born quite a way before 1993, I don’t qualify as part of the Google generation: made up of Western-born individuals who have grown up with the internet, ‘a cohort of young people with little or no recollection of life before the web’. I can remember life before the web. It wasn’t bad. Travelling [...]

Reading one of my regular neuroscience blogs and I picked up this story about QDOS, a site still in pre-register beta status, but which aims to give you “a starting point for managing and taking control of your online status. Be seen how you want to be seen.”
The premise is that consumers (i.e. users) [...]

Got into a quick chat with a colleague after work tonight about the early days of the internet, and how people we now see as pioneers were at one point viewed as ‘computer criminals’. Somehow we got onto new media and capitalism and I talked about ‘capitalism as a code we can’t break’, thinking myself [...]

All journalism students should have a blog. That’s the clear message from the leading journalism bloggers and educators. For MAC 250 students the opening quote on this discussion should make you think about what to do after the module’s over. Take a look at Dave Lee’s blog as an example: the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade recently [...]