About OJB

What?

The Online Journalism Blog publishes comment, analysis and links covering online journalism and online news, citizen journalism, blogging, vlogging, photoblogging, podcasts, vodcasts, interactive storytelling, publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, User Generated Content, searching and all things internet.

Where?

There is an Online Journalism Blog Facebook Group containing discussion forums and other tools.

The blog had a previous life from 2004-2007 at http://ojournalism.blogspot.com/, where there are still 540 posts (or so) covering the same issues, and a (slightly clunky) search engine to boot. Those posts have since been imported to this blog too, although the old email newsletter subscription box still works for the new blog.

Who?

The blog is written by Paul Bradshaw - and now, a team of ‘virtual interns‘.

But it is also written by its community of commenters and linkers. These people include journalists, editors, producers and management at local and national press and broadcasters; it includes academics around the world; it includes journalism students and it includes bloggers and citizen journalists. They live and work in the UK, USA, South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Portugal, the Philippines, Hungary, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Chile, Austria, Romania, Argentina, France, Germany, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Singapore, Macedonia, Morocco, Sweden, Russia, Greece, Bangladesh, Italy, China, Switzerland, South Korea, Ukraine, Palestine, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Qatar, Slovenia, and plenty of other places. They are all part of the conversation.

Paul BradshawPaul, if you really want to know, is a Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines at University of Central England in Birmingham Birmingham City University’s (UK) School of Media, where he is particularly involved in the degrees in Journalism and Web and New Media, as well as the new Masters in Television and Interactive Content. He also works as a freelance journalist. That’s him on the left.

Before becoming a lecturer Paul edited and group edited magazines, and managed news- and feature-driven websites. Since becoming a lecturer Paul has organised the Citizen Journalism 2007 conference, led a team of student journalists blogging the National Union of Journalists’s centenary AGM, spoken about Blogs and Journalism at the 8th Vienna Globalisation Symposium, looked at the future of newspapers for Trinity Mirror Midlands’ Digital Strategy Meeting, presented a paper on Wiki Journalism at the Future of Newspapers conference, and led a track on citizen journalism at the first European Bloggers (Un)conference. In addition to the Online Journalism Blog he has also written blogs on web and new media, interactive PR, and television and interactive content. Paul has contributed to a number of books about both the internet and online journalism specifically. He is currently writing a book on online journalism skills and contributing chapters to others.

The OJB logo was designed by Adam Stewart, at the time of writing a first year student on the BA (Hons) Media and Communication (Web and New Media).

20 Comments Add your own

  • 1. NIshikant Khajuria  |  March 22, 2007 at 11:04 am

    Sir, I am a Kashmir (India administered) based journalist with a professional experience of ten years.
    I want to contribute news items from here to the news agencies, magazines, papers or news portals. Kindly guide me in this regard.
    Awaiting for your reply.

  • 2. Arnaud Hulstaert  |  July 5, 2007 at 9:11 am

    I’m a student in information and communcation science (at Bruxelles - Belgium - I hope my english is’nt too bad) and I study the online information system useb by the journalists and the quality of these systems. To make this study, I need information from journalists and It’s rather difficult to obtain. Is it possible for me to contact you by email to ask you some questions ? My objectives are to improve those systems and therefor I need advices from journalists.
    Thank you

  • 3. paulbradshaw  |  July 6, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Thanks Arnaud - I’m conducting similar research myself so happy to get in touch. My contact details are on http://www.mediacourses.com/staff_teaching.asp

  • 4. Ken Liu  |  July 6, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    Paul:

    I read the post on wiki journalism with great interest since we have a wiki publishing platform for online media that is targeted at building communities. Iwould like to get your help in contacting the people you surveyed. Our launch customer is the San Diego Union Tribune and afew other publications are looking into it, with inetersting applications on kids sports, global warming, schools etc. Perhaps you are interested in helping us gain entry into the UK market?

  • 5. paulbradshaw  |  July 9, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    I’d love to find out more about what you’re doing with San Diego, please contact me on paul.bradshaw (at) uce (dot) ac (dot) uk

  • 6. Wasim Mohammed  |  July 16, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Hi there

    I’ve just launched a bit of a crazy website idea and just wanted a bit of advice.

    I’m not even sure if you’re the right person I should be asking and actually I’m hoping I’m not being cocky by asking you this but do you think my site would make a good story.

    Kind Regards
    Wasim

  • 7. Fiaz Sami  |  August 6, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    I’ve launched a website that is centered around people raising questions to newsmakers in response to news items on the web. People can relate news articles to questions to support the validity of a given question. The main idea is to collaboratively raise the tough questions journalists would normally not use in an interview or a press conference.

    I wanted to know what your thoughts were about such a concept and what impact it may have on citizen journalism.

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  • 9. Sandra Browne  |  August 15, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    We are looking to hire recent journalism graduates for full time positions in a startup South Florida newspaper. Would you have any leads or suggestions how we can find applicants?

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  • 11. Wiki-jornalismo: desafios&hellip  |  September 12, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    [...] open-source, jornalismo digital, Mídia No post anterior, comentei sobre o paper do professor Paul Bradshaw sobre o sistema wiki na atividade [...]

  • 12. O polêmico wiki-jornalis&hellip  |  September 13, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    [...] (autoria coletiva) na produção de material jornalístico. O trabalho foi feito pelo professor  Paul Bradshaw, da Universidade de Birmingham, e apresentado esta semana na conferência O Futuro dos Jornais, em [...]

  • 13. ian  |  September 14, 2007 at 10:32 am

    this site is very useful for my journalism class. i would just like to know something about video diary as a form of journalism. Is it related to online journalism? what are the pecularities or styles used in here?

  • 14. Paul Bradshaw  |  September 17, 2007 at 8:50 am

    My view is that video diaries can be used very effectively within journalism - either by the journalist themselves reflecting on a story or issue; or by a source giving an insight into an issue - almost as you would use a quote within text. See http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/four-types-of-online-video-journalism/ for more.

  • 15. Caroline  |  September 18, 2007 at 8:01 am

    Hey there,

    This is Caroline from SocialRank.

    I am trying to get in touch with you but couldn’t find your email address.

    We will index your blog posts as part of our content filter. I’d like to send you an invite to a beta preview of our new Web 2.0 site.

    Can you get back to me with your email address.

    Mine is caroline@journalismdaily.com

    Kind regards,

    Caroline

    http://www.SocialRank.com

  • 16. Media Wales  |  September 20, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Paul. Just come across your blog and really impressed. We’ve just started a blog focussing on the media in Wales (mainly news media) and while it’s in its early days we hope it’ll evolve into a mature blog for debate and discussion by both the media professionals and media customers. Would really appreciate your comments.

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  • 18. An innovative idea for wh&hellip  |  November 20, 2007 at 6:51 am

    [...] Paul Bradshaw, a UK blogger who is applying for a Knight News Challenge grant, has come up with a useful set of questions and tools for journalists to use when following up on news stories. As we have discussed in classes, we should conceptualize stories as on-going threads and extended conversations, as opposed to one-shot wonders. Bradshaw wants to experiment with creating tools that would enable journalists to expand the temporal and practical reach of news stories: [...]

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  • 20. Simon Berry  |  June 6, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Hi Paul - I’d like to invite you to a workshop I am running with David Wilcox but need your email address!

    Thanks

    Simon

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