Erica Berger, who is founder of Catchpool and Co-Founder of Mileage Media, kicked off her session with some impressive facts: 30 mins a day spent per day for average users of Snapchat Instagram has 77% of audience outside the USA Soundcloud has 350m users a month WhatsApp has 990m users - 70% use it daily;... Continue Reading →
#ONALondon Session: Crowdsourcing as the ultimate strategic engagement
Panel: Mimi Onuoha, Research Fellow, Data & Society, Tow Society for Digital Journalism, Katerina Stravroula, freelance journalist and radio producer based in Athen and Tobias Dorfer MO: Co-author of Tow report on the subject and before you read any further, you probably need to open this http://towcenter.org/research/guide-to-crowdsourcing/ Broadly defined by the Tow report as ‘The act... Continue Reading →
Audience engagement and newsroom attitudes
Several years ago, when the words ‘content is king’ was everywhere, I remember Joanna Geary observing 'collaboration is queen’. I loved that. I’ve been thinking about Jo’s twist on King Content because the phrase ‘audience engagement’ is so prevalent right now, and I think that if collaboration is queen bee then being part of the... Continue Reading →
Instant Articles for regional news
Here’s something that put a smile on my face today (no, not the drink drive mum) - it's a Manchester Evening News Instant Article on Facebook. The MEN and WalesOnline are the two Trinity Mirror regional sites signed up for the UK Instant Articles roll out (announced today) - The Mirror is also participating. The only... Continue Reading →
Dealing with witnesses: Why the Eyewitness Media Hub’s guidelines are so important for journalism
A while ago I was asked to join a group of journalists assembled with the aim of providing some input into Eyewitness Media Hub's principles for journalists working with UGC* - user generated content (or 'other people's words and images', as non-journalists might say). It was a privilege to be involved in the discussions and workshop... Continue Reading →
#formatDEN: Audiences, realities and goats in hats
Recurring themes in journalism conferences I’ve been following (and sometimes attended) this year are: Try innovating, not imitating (aka don’t be Buzzfeed-lite) Everyone is a reporter, so be a curator and editor Don’t be scared of failing Get developers coding in the newsroom At FormatDEN this week, these were raised but so were some others…... Continue Reading →
The beige world of clickbait journalism
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/170003092 Things I worry about: Why the airport tax charged by cabs from Belfast City Airport fluctuates by £1 for no apparent reason Is Rick from The Walking Dead aware of how awful his beard is? In the rise of Junk Food News, how do I avoid being a part of the problem? I like a good... Continue Reading →
A short guide to longform
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/178691173 It sounds like one of the speakers to hear this year was Aron Philhofer at #hhldn this week, when he levelled some zingers at mainstream media for complacency about their future. I wasn’t there, but Richard Kendall very thoughtfully grabbed a lot of the tweets around his talk into a Storify and it makes... Continue Reading →
I need to think less about Audience, more about People
I managed to make it to the Digital Editors Network meet-up on Thursday - #visualDEN if you search for it on Twitter - and came away with head and notebook stuffed full of ideas.The theme, as the hashtag suggests, was around the visualisation of stories, and talks touched covered the presentation of information through graphs,... Continue Reading →
Open season on audience stalking
Photo by Trojan_LlamaThe quote below is taken from an interesting post on It's All Journalism today, that raised the question of why news media push content to social sites and engage users there, rather than on their own sites. “I think that we have to start driving our audience back to our freaking websites because we... Continue Reading →
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