Archive for January, 2007

Blogging and journalism redux

Washington Post picture editor Keith Jenkins has some thoughts on how newspaper can remain relevant in the age of blogging and Web 2.0. A key advice: journalists should learn from bloggers.
[tags]pinoypress, blogging, journalism, web 2.0, newspapers, journalists[/tags]

1/14/07 06:53 AM   Full Story
Ceboom or bust

I arrived in Cebu yesterday to cover the Asean summit. Haven’t had the chance to go around. The weather here has been bad for days now. Kinda dreary. The road to my hotel looks like a road in Kalilangan, Bukidnon, circa 1970s. The water from the tap tastes like seawater. A meal of chicken adobo [...]

1/12/07 09:16 AM   Full Story
Blogging and journalism

A lot of bytes have been spent on the question on whether bloggers and journalists are one. The discussion can perhaps be put to rest by keeping this simple truth in mind: journalists can be bloggers but bloggers — unless they have the necessary journalistic skills, discipline and means for the job — are not [...]

1/10/07 10:09 AM   Full Story
iWant iPhone

So Apple has unwrapped iPhone, its supposedly revolutionary phone-computer-music player-hard drive that is taking the world by storm. I won’t go into the details (there are gazillions of materials on the iPhone on the Internet) but I’m willing to bet that with its awesome features, the iPhone will make the life of journalists such as [...]

1/10/07 09:39 AM   Full Story
Newsbreak editors to be arraigned, hit Mike Arroyo for ‘redefining libel’

Six editors of Newsbreak magazine charged with libel by First Gentleman Mike Arroyo will be arraigned on Wednesday, Jan. 10. They are requesting media coverage.

1/09/07 10:37 AM   Full Story
Cotabato journalist needs help

Alberto Martinez, a broadcaster in Cotabato City who survived an assassination attempt in 2005, needs immediate help. Below are a few grafs from an Inquirer story about him:
At past 8 p.m. on April 10, 2005, a few minutes after he finished his program at the Manila Broadcasting Corporation’s “Radio Natin,” Alberto Martinez was attacked by [...]

1/07/07 11:11 AM   Full Story
The lonely newspaper reader

David Carr, the media reporter at the New York Times, has this interesting piece on his and his family’s experience with the newspaper and why new media are rapidly changing the way people regard newspapers. And according this story, the signs are not very good: US newspapers have lost their value by as much as [...]

1/03/07 10:59 AM   Full Story
GMAnews.tv launched

GMA-7 launched today its news site, gmanews.tv, that looks a little too much like the inq7.net website.

1/01/07 04:39 PM   Full Story
The new ‘new journalism’ (or how the camera phone replaced the reporter’s notebook)

The world is abuzz with the grim camera-phone video of Saddam Hussein being executed. While most television networks have not been showing the video, it has found an immense audience in the Internet, so that the execution video is now the most popular and most searched item on the web. (Checkout Technorati to see what [...]

1/01/07 10:22 AM   Full Story
Faces of the Dead in Iraq

Here’s a splendid example of what online news media can exclusively do, something that more and more people will expect from Internet news sites.

1/01/07 09:37 AM   Full Story