Listen and learn: lessons on blogging, Twitter and covering the news live
I listened to the podcast the
Guardian posted the other day on The
Future of Journalism: Blogging, Twittering and Live Video.
Fascinating and thought-provoking, it's 87 minutes long, so download it to your
IPod and take it with you to the gym/ Or just make time to listen. I'm going to
count it as the training hours for this year.
A few highlights:
- Dave Hill, writer for the
Guardian, said there was "sort of mischief element" as he
covered a mayoral race on Twitter. People get to see the news-making
and reporting process in its rawest form.” Part of the fun of it for me is
the demystification of serious journalism, if you like," he said.
- Anna Pickard said when she
began live blogging television shows such as "Big Brother" and
"The Apprentice" people began sitting in front of their TV's
with their laptops, responding to her posts. “Conversation is the best
thing about the Internet, I think," she said. “...It’s introducing
this idea of simultaneous multimedia. Everyone is taking everything in and
splurging at the same time.”
- Andy Carvin of NPR called
Twitter: “a conversation you keep in your pocket” and "the
quintessential American diner."
They also talk about workflow and problems they experienced. These all illustrate
my experiences when I was covering the murder trial on Twitter, only they
explain it much more eloquently.