How to succeed as a video journalist | Philip Bloom

PHILIP: I have been a journalist for 25 years, 17 of those were working as a news cameraman in some bloody awful places but covering some incredibly important stories.

Just how important people like Christian (who has written the guest blog post below) are must not be underestimated. Without people like him and the countless others working in TV news risking their lives to make sure what needs to be told is told we would live in the dark ages and some of the most desperate plights of man, the injustices,  would never be highlighted and we would remain ignorant.

Yes, some TV news programmes are biased and their journalism can, at times  be questionable but I am a firm believer that these are in the minority. UK TV news for example is forbidden to be politically biased, unlike UK newspapers, although in reality it's not as easy as that. Anyway this is for a different post.

philipbloom.net/2014/07/30/how-to-succeed-as-a-video-journalist

British blogger Brown Moses launches new site to train others in crowdsourced reporting — Tech News and Analysis

A little over two years ago, the blogger known as Brown Moses was an unemployed father of one, with no journalistic training and no expertise in military weaponry or the Arab world, living in his flat in Leicester, a small town in northern England. Since then, Moses — whose real name is Eliot Higgins — has become a key source of information about the conflict in Syria and elsewhere, information he gathered by spending thousands of hours combing through YouTube videos and social-media accounts. Now he is launching a Kickstarter campaign to jump-start a dedicated website to teach others how to do the same.

gigaom.com/2014/07/14/british-blogger-brown-moses-launches-new-site-to-train-others-in-crowdsourced-reporting

Newspryng: crowdfunding for independent journalism | Media news

A new platform aiming to foster independent journalism and collaborative writing launched last week, with an in-built donation system to support journalists' work.

Newspryng is a new experiment incrowdfunding for journalism, helping freelancers publish their work and get paid for it.

"I wanted to explore whether we could replicate this model with a platform which anyone could contribute to," Matthew Chapman, the editorial lead behind Newspryng, told Journalism.co.uk.

www.journalism.co.uk/news/newspryng-crowdfunding-for-independent-journalism/s2/a557324

Newspryng: crowdfunding for independent journalism | Media news

A new platform aiming to foster independent journalism and collaborative writing launched last week, with an in-built donation system to support journalists' work.

Newspryng is a new experiment incrowdfunding for journalism, helping freelancers publish their work and get paid for it.

www.journalism.co.uk/news/newspryng-crowdfunding-for-independent-journalism/s2/a557324

How to open up citizen journalism in Africa beyond the smartphone minority | Media-network | The Guardian

Open journalism has turned all of us into experts, each with our own unique experience, skills and perspective that contribute to the global story. Guardian Activate Johannesburg was the first of its kind in Africa, focusing specifically on how innovations in technology can enhance journalism, increase transparency and make activism more effective. Looking back, what will it take to make open journalism a reality for South Africa and the continent at large?

www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/jul/09/open-journalism-africa-internet-smartphone?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sarah Marshall — Advanced newsgathering using Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is a powerful newsgathering tool. But are you using all the tips and tricks to mean you get to the story before it breaks? Do you know how to hone in to find key contacts?

Joanna Geary (@JoannaUK), head of news at Twitter UK, came in to the London newsroom of The Wall Street Journal on 17 June to share ideas and best practice.

She also gave this 'advanced newsgathering using Tweetdeck' workshop during the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.

sarahmarshall.io/post/90941979203/advanced-newsgathering-using-tweetdeck

BBC College of Journalism shares free training resources to the world

The BBC College of Journalism last week opened up their training website for free to a global audience. On it are a wealth of resources originally created for an internal BBC audience by some of its most experienced journalists. The college say the opening up of the site is a trial that will last at least 12 months.

There are videos and podcasts on basic three point lighting, safety with lights, how a TV news package is produced, self shooting video journalism, iPhone journalism, audio and many more.

http://www.newsshooter.com/2014/07/05/bbc-college-of-journalism-shares-free-training-resources-to-the-world/

Citizen journalism pioneer Brown Moses is launching a site for crowdsourced reporting — Tech News and Analysis

British blogger Eliot Higgins, who has become a self-taught expert in the crowdsourced verification of news under his alias Brown Moses, is planning to launch a site called Bellingcat that will bring together other citizen journalists and also offer tools for those who want to learn how to do what he does

gigaom.com/2014/07/01/citizen-journalism-pioneer-brown-moses-is-launching-a-site-for-crowdsourced-reporting