Online News
Retweet or retreat?
The CAJ is examining the ethics of journalists forwarding information they haven’t verified.
Guardian plans to expand open data tools
Guardian’s Chris Thorpe: We can ‘heal the world’ with open data
Stronger communities, better comments
The Halifax Chronicle Herald signalled today it’s going to beef up its commenting system to improve the level of discourse on its site. Good to hear. Much of what passes for comment on news websites continues to be the lowest possible level of name-calling and uninformed bravado. The Herald’s director of news content Dan Leger [...]
Tips for live blogging
The Halifax Chronicle Herald has joined a growing number of news organizations that are live blogging events to break news quickly and build engagement around them. It live blogged 8 events this past summer during Nova Scotia’s provincial election. Seven were political events — party platform releases or debates — the other was a discussion [...]
Google Fast Flip built for mobile
So this is it. In April, Sharon Waxman reported a conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in which he told her: “In about six months, the company will roll out a system that will bring high-quality news content to users without them actively looking for it” … one in which users “will be automatically served [...]
Authored by Tim Currie, Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the