Twitter Libel Case - The Latest

Twitter have been ordered to provide the details of five British users that have been accused of libel on the soial networking webstie. A California judge has asked for the information in what seems to be the first time that Twitter has had to provide details of British users...

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The Gallery - Video

The Gallery is the base of the production team, and controls very important parts of the news broadcast. This includes the autoqueue, the lights, the camera shots, the sound and more. It is run by a production crew, lead by the production manager and director. In this video, we hear from the people that currently control the Production Team for Winol[Winchester News Online]. They explain why The Gallery is so importan...

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Ryan Giggs Named by MP

Ryan Giggs was yesterday named as the Premier League footballer who took out a super-injunction preventing any publication that would reveal he had an affair with BB star Imogen Thomas. MP John Hemming named the star in the House of Commons, using a 300 year old law which gives members of parliament freedom of speech without danger of prosecution (known as parliamentary privilege...

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Twitpics - Citizen Journalism in Photo Form

As a big fan (and user) of Twitter, I see a lot of pictures posted through 'twitpic', this a website that allows twitter users to post pictures, and then link their followers to them in their tweets. It's basically Twitter's answer to facebooks 'picture feature'. Although, much like the comparison of 'tweets' and 'facebook status', they have very different uses. Facebook pictures are to show you drunk on a night out, letting people see your family holiday photos, and are generally a more personal collection. Twitpic is different (at least for...

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EPL Footballer Injunction Still Stands

The Sun lost another attempt to name the premier league footballer linked to an affair with Imogen Thomas. News Group Newspapers (that represents the newspaper) appeared in court today along with Imogen in an attempt to halt the gagging order that has so far prevented the player from being named...

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Wiki Boss speaks out against Injunctions

Jimmy Wales (The founder of Wikipedia) has suggested that injunctions and super injunctions are a ‘human rights violation’. Mr Wales said "There should be no law constraining people form publishing legally obtained, factual infromation". Anybody can edit and update the online encyclopaedia, and this has created a bit of controversy and trouble for Wales regarding super injunction laws. Users have been posting details on Wikipedia linking people to recent injunctions that have been made...

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J'Accuse by Emile Zola

What is J'Accuse? J'Accuse was an open letter written by journalist Emile Zola, and was addressed to the President of France - Felix Faure. It was published on the front of a daily paris newspaper called L'Aurore on January 13th 1898. In the letter, Zola explains the injustice he feels regarding the sentencing of Alfred Dreyfus, and accuses the French government of anti-semitism. Zola was found guilty of libel on February 23rd 1898. He fled to England as a way of avoiding prison, but continued his defence of Dreyfus. He only returned...

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Fact Mongering Online - New Media Reporting

I have started reading a book edited together by Julia Hobsbawm (Britain's first professor of Public Relations at the London College of Communication). The book contains a number of 'wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays' and explores various issues involving journalists and new media. I hope to keep you up to date on my thoughts regarding the opinions and observations expressed in this book. In this blog I'll be talking about 'Fact Mongering Online' which was written by Emily Bell. She has worked for The Observer and The Guardian, which included...

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Journalists on Twitter

A number of Journalists now use twitter, it has become a great way of releasing stories as well as discovering stories. Through things like hashtags(#) and 'trending topics' it can be easy to locate opinions on certain topics and news stories. Thier are a number of top journalists and bloggers from a number of newspapers, news broadcasters and more on Twitter. I have spent some time locating some of the top journalistic tweeters and have composed a list that will show all of thier tweets as soon as they are posted. This is accessible...

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Page One - New Documentary about The New York Times

I just want to promote and bring to attention this new film documentary that follows The New York Times. Plot: Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity. The filme will be out 24th J...

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The Power of Twitter - Part 1

I recently made a post regarding Facebook, and a comment made that if it was a country, it would be the third biggest one in the world. And it got me thinking as too how it might work out if Facebook really did become a country. Well in this post i'm going to take a look at Twitter and question what sort of country it would form. Before I go into Twitter as a country,...

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