January 5, 2009 – 12:52 pm
The richest repository of cultural material in the country would have to be the ABC – so it is exciting and maybe even alarming to hear that Auntie is experimenting with the idea of opening up its archives so that members of the public can access and even re-use and remix the material.
The experiment is [...]
January 2, 2009 – 4:29 pm
I’ve said elsewhere that one of the reasons I am doing this blog is to experiment with the efficacy and sustainability of serving news and views to a niche audience online – the niche audience in this case being journalists, media workers and those who are interested in them. Meta-journalism, if you like.
Well, its been [...]
December 31, 2008 – 4:04 pm
More news from the crisis in journalism.
Stanford University is re-deploying its famous mid-career Knight journalism fellowships to drive a shift towards innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Fellowship website states:
“The program is transforming itself in order to serve the needs of journalism and journalists as much in the years ahead as it has in the past. The dizzying [...]
December 30, 2008 – 11:26 am
Yesterday in my post about Radio National I tentatively suggested that a new media strategy for the national broadcaster might mean more than new delivery platforms. That it might mean a rethink of how the content is conceived and created.The point doesn’t only apply to the ABC, of course. The same is true of all [...]
December 22, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Inside Story, a new publication on which I have blogged before, has an interesting article by Sally Young, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, on changing habits in consuming news.*
I disagree with elements of Young’s essentialy pessimistic analysis. She says:”Even though we are spending more time with media today, we’re [...]
December 11, 2008 – 10:21 am
It’s been a week for banging on in conventional ain’t it awful ways about our major newspaper companies, and while all this is indeed cause for concern and must be documented, it gets my goat, because I don’t really feel gloomy at all about the future of media.
While I know we are going through a [...]
