links for 2011-05-05

Readers will be able to gain experience points through participation, with bonuses going out to members who send in the most interesting stuff. The number of points rewarded will be a function of both Archant journalists’ opinions (“editor’s choice” selections), and naturally, what their fellow readers think. The more commented on, more shared, and more viewed a contribution is, the more that contributor gets rewarded.

Does Athar care that he is a citizen journalist or otherwise? Is it important to him.

Pondering that one just reinforces my view that the only people who have a problem with the phrase are the people who use it most – journalists.

As a rule, SalfordOnline will publish press releases verbatim from any political party, organisation or individual who cares to send them in to our News Desk, clearly stating the Source to allow our readership to draw their own conclusions about the material.

This is at odds with the editorial policies employed by most of the mainstream media, who may publish a press release word-for-word but will not inform their readers that it was written by a press officer or publicity team.

Every news room will have to remake itself around the principle of being reactive in real time. Every page or story that every news organisation distributes will eventually show some way of flagging if the page is active or archived, if the conversation is alive and well or over and done with. Every reporter and editor will develop a real time presence in some form, which makes them available to the social web.

I then had a major revelation – Nothing you have done in your life or career counts before you started at the BBC! You're a shit head until you eat, digest and become the 'BBC Manual' of whichever programme you're currently working on.

The words 'fun', 'humour', 'personality' were never used in that 2 day course. I was dying! It was news, news, breaking news and more news – I knew I was ultimately doomed.