#jpod: The top news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 17 June 2011
Listen below for this week’s news round-up from Journalism.co.uk’s senior reporter Rachel McAthy and sign up to our iTunes podcast feed for future audio. This week’s podcast looks at: Guardian Media...
View Article#jpod in depth: Huffington Post lands in the UK
In this week’s podcast, we take a look at the launch of the Huffington Post UK, which went live on Wednesday. Alastair Campbell described the launch as having ‘perfect timing’ at a panel debate...
View Article#jpod: How journalists are using Google+
Barely a month old and already with more than 20 million users, Google+ has been adopted by many journalists. But how are they using it? Will it change the way we use other social networks? And, as one...
View Article#jpod: How news sites can become more social
Publishers have spent the last few years engaging with their readers away from their news sites: on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, for example. Now some news outlets are adding a social layer to their...
View Article#jpod in depth: Reporting the riots – did journalists get it right?
Did the media succeed in reporting the riots? In this week’s #jpod Journalism.co.uk’s Sarah Marshall speaks to Paul Lewis, special projects editor at the Guardian, who went on a five-day journey in...
View Article#jpod: Does SEO kill the carefully crafted, clever headline?
For some time within the industry there has been an often lively debate about the impact of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) on online news. Just recently the Los Angeles Times took on a new SEO chief,...
View Article#jpod: SEO success stories – the LA Times on its traffic hike
The Los Angeles Times is the only major US newspaper to have a website that is increasing in traffic year-on-year, according to the site’s senior editor. In this podcast Journalism.co.uk technology...
View Article#jpod in depth –‘It just sent shockwaves through you’: journalists reflect on...
In this week’s podcast we speak to two journalists with remarkable stories to tell of their experiences of 9/11, one of them having been in the World Trade Centre when the first plane hit and the other...
View Article#jpod: Lessons in digital storytelling from Storify and the Guardian
How can journalists best use the latest digital storytelling tools? In this podcast, Journalism.co.uk technology correspondent Sarah Marshall looks at current trends in integrated storytelling, hearing...
View Article#jpod: Why the Guardian is taking a laid-back approach to news on the iPad
The Guardian’s long-awaited iPad app was launched yesterday (Thursday, 13 October). The news app is closer in reading experience to the print edition than to the constantly updated Guardian.co.uk. This...
View Article#jpod: How journalists can use SMS to engage with the audience
Three quarters of the world’s population has a mobile phone and text messaging has become ubiquitous. This podcast takes a look at how journalists can connect with sources, communicate with audiences,...
View Article#jpod in depth: Discussing the press self-regulation question after #soe11
The debate around the need for reform of the UK’s self-regulation of the press returned to the spotlight this week, as industry representatives joined to discuss the issue at the Society of Editors...
View Article#jpod: How multiplatform strategies are evolving
This podcast takes a look at multiplatform strategies and how newsrooms – and journalists and editors – are adapting and creating content to be viewed on four or five screens: desktop, mobile, tablets,...
View Article#jpod – Paywalls: Helping readers over the fence
A part-paywall will go up on a number of news sites in Slovenia on Monday (16 January), following a group paywall model first introduced in Slovakia by Piano Media. In this week’s podcast...
View Article#jpod – Assessing the impact of the Freedom of Information Act and its future
This week’s jpod comes days after the Justice Select Committee began hearing evidence as part of its review of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Given the impact of the legislation on the everyday...
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