Britney Spears ate my crocodile: An analysis of online content Down Under

Here are the slides and the text of my presentation on ambient journalism at the Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University:
FOJ09 talk: Tabloidisation of Australian online news media
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What is Journalism?

A wrap up of the Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff.
This is being published a little later than I would have hoped, my excuse being a 24-hour flight and some internet issues.
As the title of this post suggests, the main theme of the Future of Journalism Conference was an existential one: What is Journalism? Yes that’s [...]

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Rethinking journalism education

Day 2 of the Future of Journalism conference and some more great papers. In particular a session that was looking at changes in journalism education.
Donica Mensing presented a fascinating paper calling for a rethink of journalism education. Essentially, while she wasn’t saying that journalism education’s link to industry was a bad thing she felt that [...]

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Public sponsored media the future

Public service model will be the savour of ‘quality’ journalism. This controversial statement  by Professor of Communications at Goldsmith’s College University of London James Curran opened the Future of Journalism Conference in Cardiff today.
He discounted the four major views on the future of journalism:
1. Media organisations who stick their head in the sand and [...]

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Watch this space

Well I’ve arrived in the UK and it is only a week until the Future of Journalism conference. I’ll give you updates here and on twitter – #foj09

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