Houston broadcaster trying to do things that ‘only the web can do’
According to a post from Lost Remote, Houston’s Tribune Broadcasting was reported to be planning a pilot change to the format of some of its local newscasts, taking presenters off-screen in order to...
View ArticleMedia Culpa: Promoting Facebook groups is breach of Swedish broadcast act
Public service radio and TV shows in Sweden that encourage listeners to join or discuss stories on Facebook are in breach of the Swedish Radio and Television Act, according to a new ruling reported by...
View ArticleGlobal Thinkers: Television is going vertical
Thomson Reuters’ global editor, multimedia, Chris Cramer on the future of broadcasting and why narrow-casting not linear television networks are the way forward: The days of linear television networks...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt: Providing local content should be condition of broadcasters’...
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will say today that he intends to make the provision of local content a condition of the licences given to commercial broadcasters like ITV, Channel 4 and Five. In a...
View ArticleLocal TV operators criticise new service YouView in letter to Times
Plans for YouView, a new TV service offering on-demand and internet-connected features from BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva, have been criticised by local TV operators and production...
View ArticleMedia Release: BBC axes deputy director general post and Mark Byford
The BBC has announced it will cut the role of deputy director general, making current incumbent Mark Byford redundant. Byford took up the post in 2004 and has been at the BBC for 32 years. Speaking in...
View ArticleYouTube launches new trending news feature
YouTube has announced the launch of YouTube Trends, which was officially unveiled last week. In a more detailed explanation of the new tool yesterday a blog post on the site explains how the new...
View ArticleAl Jazeera reports its Cairo office attacked and burned
Arabic television network Al Jazeera has reported that its Cairo office has been attacked by “a gang of thugs”. According to the network’s report, the office has “been burned along with all the...
View ArticleJon Snow to look at social media in Bob Friend memorial lecture
Channel Four presenter Jon Snow will look at social media’s impact on journalism when he gives the annual Bob Friend Memorial Lecture later this month. Held at Kent University on February 25, the talk...
View ArticleMedia release: Al Jazeera launches new social media show The Stream
Al Jazeera this week confirmed the launched its new social media show The Stream, which will aggregate stories from online sources and discussions. The broadcaster claims the show is “the first of its...
View ArticleGreenslade: Why the BBC Trust was wrong to find against Panorama
Yesterday we reported on the BBC Trust ruling that Panorama had broken editorial guidelines of fairness and accuracy in its programme Primark: On The Rack. The BBC was ordered to make an on-air apology...
View ArticleBBC creates public Reith Lectures archive online
The BBC is to make hundreds of hours of recordings of its Reith Lectures available in a new online archive. The archive will include 240 recordings made over the past 60 years and a transcript of every...
View ArticleBeet.TV: Vook on working with ABC News to produce video books
In this video interview on Beet.TV Matthew Cavnar, head of product at Vook, a company which creates video books, talks about its collaboration with ABC News to produce a ‘vook’ which combines its text...
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‘There’s no fat to cut away here’: BBC Sussex staff join nationwide strikes
BBC journalists in Brighton, hometown of Journalism.co.uk, are taking part in today’s nationwide strikes at the corporation over compulsory redundancies. Staff at BBC Radio Sussex formed a picket...
View ArticleRadio Times: Vote for the greatest broadcast interview of all time
Inspired by the BBC College of Journalism’s Art of the Interview season, the Radio Times is calling for people to vote for the greatest broadcast interview of all time. Contenders include Robin Day’s...
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