links for 2010-01-16

"If you don't have the passion or the curiosity, you won't survive." Probably all that needs to be said on the subject!

Second was a great point from Five Live's Brett Spencer – throughout the session the terms multimedia journalist, tri-platform journalist and so forth were all regularly used, and Spencer rightly asked at what point we stop using those terms, and just use the term journalist. A fair point and one of my own particular bugbears, particularly in these multi-platform days.

If you attended news:rewired but missed some talks or you couldn’t make the day altogether, below is a round-up of coverage from the sessions:

Lovely graphics from the News ReWired event in London.

Here's a presentation I gave at the news rewired conference in London yesterday about multi-media journalism.

Flick through the slides or, if you have 10 minutes or so, listen to me give commentary.

Now to the issue of payment. Some attendees thought that “citizen journalists” are inherently amateur and should not be paid—presumably because it undermines the professional. Amateurs will likely accept any price they are offered for a photo for example—partly because they don’t know how much it might actually be worth, and partly because something is better than nothing. This threatens to drive down the prices paid to professionals, as news organizations have access to cheaper materials.