Blogging: Today’s answer to Mailer and Wolfe?

Over the course of my research for the end of year essay, I came across the idea that blogging is akin to the rise of the New Journalism of the 60’s.

Children of the revolution

Researching for my essay I came a across a journalist called Christopher Allbritton. What he has done is truly amazing, and, in many respects, he has laid my worries about the viability of blogs to one side. Well, for the moment at least.

Ups and downs for Internet traffic

The main newspaper websites in Britain have experience losses and gains in the first part of the year.

Journalists’ numbers not in decline

According to Paul Myners, the Chairman of the Guardian Media Group, the number of journalists is not in decline.

Citizen Journalism sites

ohmynews.com
This site is really quite revolutionary. It is truly interactive and is the best in citizen journalism.
readers can directly contact the writer/journalist/reporter with feedback and extra information. In fact, the reader is encouraged to do so.
However there is one major and serious problem with the site in my opinion.
The quality of writing is terrible. Here are a [...]

Econmics could be the death of citizen journalism

Citizen journalism is a fantastic idea. The concept means that any censoring of images is reduced. It means that viewers can see events as they happen when they happen without any opinion from big news corporations.

iReport gets some competition

CBS has launched a new citizen journalism website to compete with CNN’s iReport website.

Website advertising comparison

The Canberra Times on this particular page defines the difference between advertising and editorial content.
Notice that, as usual, there is a moving ad in the banner. Most sites have these, however some are not recognisable as advertising. The Canberra Times web page on the other hand  immediately conveys to the reader that this is an [...]

Garret Fitzgerald dives into interactivity debate

In his column today for the Irish Times Garret Fitzgerald, the former Taoiseach of Ireland, has dived into the debate about interaction between print and electronic media.

Questionable report leads to stock exchange dive

The Irish Stock exchange took a serious hit yesterday morning after the release of a questionable house price report.
The report, a quarterly release from Daft.ie, says that house prices have fallen 1.2% in the first three months of this year.
However, the report is based on a tiny cross section of only 13,000 house prices per [...]