Looking to the future for journalism
From UnaRocks
It will be interesting to see what the weekly newspaper will offer through its online outlet. Readers can now comment on stories over at the new website.
The breaking news section seems to carry the same stories as INM’s Independent.ie site.
The Guardian has reported that news website The Huffington Post is to move into local news.
Founder Arianna Huffington made the announcement last night at Guardian News & Media’s Future of Journalism conference.
The Huffington Post will initially target Chicago with an edited news aggregation website and will function with one (presumably very busy) editor.
Huffington said the Chicago site would aggregate news, sports, crime, arts and business news from different local sources as well as contributions from bloggers in what will be the first of a series of projects in “dozens of US cities”.
The second city already has a good local news website and blog, the Chi Town Daily News. It is of course a different online offering, but it covers local Chicago news very comprehensively.
Full story from Guardian.co.uk here
Audio of Arianna Huffington speaking at the conference here
Jeff Jarvis gives some insight into the BBC newsroom reshuffle today in the Guardian and over at his blog BuzzMachine.
Jarvis gets an overview of the changes from head of the BBC’s newsroom Peter Horrocks.
This is particularly interesting and I completely agree:
Then there is Horrocks’ new-media on-demand production unit, which will create, not just repackage, content for the internet. We agreed that creating new forms of news narrative – making appropriate use of all media within a story, rather than creating separate media versions of each story – is one of the most innovative frontiers for journalists today.
What I have been up to today.
Snapped outside the catholic church in Arklow Co Wicklow (while driving) the Sunday before voting day
Just one of the posters from the colourful and varied Lisbon Treaty campaign run by the ‘No’ side, who won today’s referendum.
Despite the vast number of posters like the one above, which seemed quite irrational, the seemingly fragmented ‘No’ side won by a margin of 53.4% to 46.6%
Complete multimedia coverage over on rte.ie/lisbon with articles, audio, video, stats, maps and interactive features.
RTE.ie has also got some good comments from members of the public here, which give some insight into the ‘No’ side’s win
Outside of Ireland, the Lisbon Treaty has hit the headlines throughout the world just a couple of examples what they are saying here and here.
Ireland’s public service broadcaster has launched RTÉ News Now. The service is available through rte.ie/live
At present it offers live and looped news and current affairs programmes 24 hours a day.
As well as its normal schedule the service will carry breaking news and special coverage of events like the Lisbon Treaty Referendum results tomorrow!
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