I’ve embeded above the launch video featuring Media Trust Marketing director Gavin Sheppard, and there will shortly be a news story on the site with more detail. million in support of People Powered Change. There are how to guides, inspiring ideas, a forum and blogs, and a members directory. Anyone up for that? All posts MORE >>

  What music to play, what programming to air, and all the cuts made at the print level most stories come off the wore than actually written by reporters.”. Now I still read the New York Times online for national and global stories. Even the TV news is a bit old and I watch more to see how they spin stories than to get new news. MORE >>

Tweet Sky and the BBC have recently been in the news for restricting their journalists’ use of social media. The BBC released guidelines encouraging employees not to break news stories on Twitter while Sky’s new social media guidelines advise against sharing stories from anyone other than their own employees. Tweet This! MORE >>

Every fact is checked, story arc is edited, mostly reported after the event even if only a few seconds, e.g. in a live cross, as one journalist filters what will be said to the community. Bloggers, Twitterers and others are involved in Process Journalism – the story is reported as it happens. Too little, too late in my book. MORE >>

As the BBC tells it’s journos to start using social media as a primary source – or leave journalism – what are the repercussions in social spaces? Following on from the above, journoggers will use any tweet, blog post, email, rumour, video, conversation, comment or IP address to name and shame, and escalate a story.  MORE >>