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More and more newspapers in the UK are attempting to produce live, blog-style coverage. Following the Liverpool Daily Post's blog coverage of its editorial processes, the Lancashire Evening Post streamed live video yesterday, for a feature story on the state of the UK's pub industry.

Featured prominently on the home page, the Post featured live video interviews with customers of The Black Horse pub in Friargate.

The newspaper used technology from live streaming service Qik and shot video footage on an N95 Nokia mobile phone.

Readers were able to submit questions live and add their comments.

For this experiment, three staffers were sent to the pub, including digital editor Martin Hamer, a features writer who produced a story for the print paper, and a journalist who oversaw the camera work.

In the newsroom, a moderator monitored posts and comments by users.

"If this goes well, we can show the rest of the industry that there is potential for live video in the near future," said Hamer.

"With a handful of people over a two hour period, we can produce something that is exciting, dynamic and innovative, but at the same time of great interest to the public."

Until now, newspaper digital editors have remained divided as to the future of live streamed video.

Source: journalism.co.uk

Reetta Meriläinen, editor-in-chief of the Helsingin Sanomat in Helsinki, Finland, will discuss the paper's print and online hyperlocal strategies at the upcoming World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 1 to 4.

The Editors Weblog is carrying a few 'teaser' interviews featuring speakers of the upcoming Forum.

Meriläinen's presentation focuses on three essential aspects of hyperlocal news:

- hyperlocal is not only about geographic, but also mental proximity - covering issues that are close to readers' minds:
Newspapers "often think of hyperlocal as just a geographic term but it isn't just that," she said. Instead, "We are here to serve people and to try help them in their everyday life."
For example, if there's a problem with city traffic or issues about daycare, the Helsingin encourages people to voice their concerns and submit questions, such as "How to find daycare for my children." These questions are then forwarded to the mayor's office, daycare facilities, and any relevant policy group. The Helsingin also creates many forums to connect people around those issues.

- focus on hyperlocal news to build a community:
A soft news story with local focus can help build a strong community of readers, as was the case when the Helsingin wrote about Bubi, the owl that landed on the goalpost during a local football game - and stayed to watch the game.
Helsingin Sanomat's website features its own local service site, "Oma kaupunki," which means "my own city." This section of the site combines local and hyperlocal news, with reader services and forums. In effect, it's perfect for local search, both for news and as a local guide, according to Meriläinen. In the future, the Helsingin plans to open this platform to user-generated content.

- hyperlocal means moving from virtual encounters to real encounters:
Last summer, the Helsingin led a print and online campaign to restore the Kaisaniemi park in Helsinki, which was dangerous and badly kept. The paper encouraged people to find ideas for the park and submit them. It also organized events "to keep the park alive," including a fun fair, complete with stands, balloons, food and games, and a panel discussion about the issues. Whereas the paper expected between 1,000 and 2,000 people, a massive 5,000 showed up. This event helped to build a real relationship amongst the community, and the ideas that emerged during the whole campaign were sent to the municipal county. There are now plans for improvement of the park.

Reetta Meriläinen, editor-in-chief of the Helsingin Sanomat in Helsinki, Finland, will discuss in detail the paper's print and online hyperlocal strategies at the upcoming World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 1 to 4.

Today, The Liverpool Daily Post is giving its online readers a unique chance to peek into the paper's editorial process.

The Post will be running a live blog throughout the whole day, until next morning's edition goes the presses.

Thanks to technology from Bambuser and Qik, the Post's journalists will stream video of themselves via their mobile phones, as they conduct interviews or work in the office.

The day's main editorial conference was also streamed online.

Readers of the live blog can submit ideas for stories and questions for journalists, about editorial decisions, design and more, both for the print and online editions.

"The success of the live blog during our local election coverage proved that our readers enjoy being a part of the newsgathering process, asking questions and sharing information," said Mark Thomas, Liverpool Daily Post editor.

"Now we want to take this a stage further and invite people to get involved in the production of their newspaper."

Congratulations to the Post for this innovative way of engaging the audience in the news process and behind the scenes.

Go take a look!

Source: journalism.co.uk

To increase the reach and popularity of multimedia content, local news provides should not be afraid of hosting content on external sites, but should "see them as way to drive traffic to their own websites and to reach new viewers," said The Evening Leader's Christian Dunn.

The Evening Leader has been using photo-sharing site Flickr to host their images and has seen a steady flow of traffic to the paper's website from Flickr. Dunn said that the slide shows created from the pictures had attracted thousands of viewed after being on the site for only a few weeks.

This week the paper has created three public Flickr groups for people to submit images, in hopes that Flickr users readers will join. Submitted pictures may appear in the print edition, and the Leader's Picture Editor Rick Matthews will manage one group for aspiring photographers.

Dunn hopes "these features will encourage readers to participate and provide another source of content and means of distribution for the paper."

"I think it's really important for regional newspapers to take full advantage of sites such as Flickr. Not only do they offer fantastic services, which we can harness, but they also allow our brand to reach a far wider readership than ever before," said Dunn. He adds that Flickr Groups further breaks down "the traditional barriers between newspapers and members of the public."

Source: Journalism.co.uk

Eight Brazilian newspapers, all part of the RBS media group, are collaborating on the "Error Prevention Project," devising a so-called "accuracy packet" that will help them identify and avoid their most frequent errors.

The packet begins with a handbook made by Zero Hora editor Pedro Dias Lopes, and follows with suggestions and practices from American and Brazilian professionals.  

Primary features of the Prevention Project include:

-an online database where participating publications submit and explain each correction they have made.

-an internal awareness campaign urging employees to check for the five most frequent types of errors (53% of all errors), including names, and personal data like professions and age.

-a Manual of Procedures and Error Prevention, the title of Lopes' handbook, which offers advice on how to best write various types of articles, including obituaries.

Lopes began tracking errors in 2004, and thanks in part to the strength of the handbook, he was named executive editor of zerohora.com. After Zero Hora's correction records were put online, and the other publications in the project, such as Poineiro, followed suit. Analysis showed that the top five errors across all the papers were identical to the top five first identified at Zero Hora.

Source: Poynter

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Times Online launched a new service to enable its travel blogging community to submit “postings” through speech, which are immediately converted into text, thanks to SpinVox.

Archant announced plans to develop a personalized online news service for its regional newspaper websites, as part of a general online overhaul. Thanks to geotagging, users will get news prioritized according to their postcode.

Rue89.com was founded in May by four former journalists and bloggers from the French leftist daily Libération. Within months, the online-only news site unearthed a few scoops and became a recognized independent source in the French media landscape, ranking first among French news sites for time spent, ahead of newspapers, according to Nielsen NetRatings. One of its founders and director, Pierre Haski, tells the Editors Weblog how Rue89 found a working compromise to pro-am journalism.

Almost half of the articles published by daily newspapers in the US contain one or more factual errors, and less than two percent end up being corrected, reports a study. It’s time to increase both the size of correction boxes and reporting accuracy.

Using a $700,000 Knight News Challenge grant, MTV will recruit a team of “mobile youth journalists” to cover the upcoming US presidential elections.   With this citizen journalist project, MTV hopes to learn about media diffusion and consumption in youth culture, particularly how the medium affects the message.

During the 14th World Editors Forum, to be held in Cape Town from June 2 through 7, the Editors Weblog will probe some of the world’s most inspiring editors on how to improve editorial quality in the digital age. In a series of multimedia interviews, these editors will answer all queries about the future of the newspaper. Want to ask a question, in general or to a specific editor?  Just leave it in the comments or contact us.

In the run-up to the 14th World Editors Forum, to be held in Cape Town between June 2 and June 7, the Editors Weblog is providing snapshots onto some of the ideas to be developed by the main speakers. Starting first: Mike van Niekerk, Online editor-in-chief of the Australian group Fairfax Media, who will speak about his experience with integrated newsrooms. He describes the necessity of cultural change among the staff, of going through the process slowly but surely, and how Fairfax – once mindsets were changed – equipped its reporters with multi-functional devices.

More of your colleagues from around the world are coming to this collaborative blog than at any other time to share information, best practices and views. Sitemeter has just registered the 400,000th unique visitor since 13th Feb 2006. Now there are approx 34,000 unique views per month on Editors Weblog up from 26,000 in March 2006….so we’re celebrating!

The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism.

Citizen journalism media and local news websites offering user-generated content influence their communities and are here to stay, according to a report released by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Traditional Media companies are coming up against these citizen journalism sites so it’s imperative to understand how to set them up, the secrets to success and how they can work hand in hand with newspapers.

Like many aspects of the Web, news is becoming a collaborative activity. Social news sites such as digg.com and Newsvine have infinitely increased their audience over the past year, attracting audiences through a system of voting on their favorite stories. But sometimes democracy doesn’t provide the best in news. To fill the gap between traditional editorial boards and the wisdom of the crowds, a social news site based on trust has been created. NewsTrust.net, which goes public today, strives to help newshounds find quality journalism. The site’s founder, Fabrice Florin, gave the Editors Weblog a sneak peek at the ideas and hard work behind the latest in social news.