Kay Kinsella’s Blog

Because of the downturn, newspapers are looking for ideas to keep the print version of news and magazines alive. Now, in recent news, it seems the creative director behind Redwood publishing has answered the question: personalised content. Read the rest of this entry »

Publish2 is a new service that aims to help journalists online by enabling them to link each other to various stories and sources. It helps journalists link each other to different news content available on the web. Read the rest of this entry »

The Huffington Post is a newspaper that is only available online. It is a new step for newspapers online as it still promotes investigative journalism, something that many journalists argue is becoming extinct as the print newspaper moves to the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Indymedia is a global website aimed at providing a place for citizen journalists to write their stories.Indymedia defines itself as “a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate  Read the rest of this entry »

The Guardian recently discussed the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 clashes in London. They pointed out in the article that it took six days for the media to finally get a grasp of the real events Read the rest of this entry »

In a blog by Dairine McCafferty, she discusses the use of the internet in the recent US election. Obama updated followers of his campaign on twitter, had millions of videos, audios and photos circulating on the internet and had thousands of blogs devoted to him. Read the rest of this entry »

In a post by Stephen Mangan, he discusses the idea of the protection of people’s privacy online versus their privacy in the traditional media like radio, television and the newspaper. Read the rest of this entry »

In a post by Chris Murphy, he poses the idea of a new code of conduct for the new breed of citizen journalists. He says “professional journos must compete for coverage with those others who may not have any moral or ethic code and may well be only interested in furthering a particular agenda”. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter is fast becoming one of the most used internet  sites in the past year alone. It is a blog service of sorts, allowing members to describe what they’re doing in just a few sentences. Made for just friends and family and even celebritys to let the world know what they’re doing, it has now become a breaking news source. Read the rest of this entry »

Online news is facing an upheaval following the news that rules on the UK media ownership are going to be scrapped. Ofcom says online streams like the Sun TV and the News of the World TV are out of the reach of their regulation and if there are any complaints about these sites they should be directed to the Press Complaints Commission . Read the rest of this entry »