Video gaming website NowGamer.com was launched by publisher Imagine Publishing on Friday. The site is the first in a series of ’supersites’ from the company to go live in the next couple of years, according to a release from the group. The clean, easy-to-navigate site was created with Be...

As reported on the main Journalism.co.uk site, here is the letter sent by the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Sir Christopher Meyer, to the Media Standards Trust in response to its request for participation in stage two of its ‘A More Accountable Press’ report: From the Chai...

As the mainstream media shifts to writing more online content, its standards and guidelines are up for discussion. Just how much of other people’s work on external sites can/should you use and how should you attribute in articles? Stephen Hutcheon, of the Sydney Morning Herald, flagged up an i...

This afternoon @journalism_live ‘twinterviewed’ the Twitchhiker, aka Paul Smith, a freelance journalist from Newcastle. The background here is that on March 1, 2009, Smith will set off on a 30 day mission - to see how far he will get with the Twitter community as his only aid. Yup, he...

Not-for-profit news organisation ProPublica has crated a site dedicated to analysis of President Obama’s stimulus package for the US economy. Working with news program The Takeaway and public radio station WNYC, ShovelWatch is big on data and data visualisation. For starters: A searchable, vis...

Jeni Barnett, the LBC radio presenter at the centre of the Goldacre/LBC case, has received ‘hundreds of extremely personal and abusive comments,’ her agent, Robert Common, confirmed to Journalism.co.uk today. “[The comments] do not address the debate about the use of MMR and that i...

Last week saw co-founder Katie Lee aka ‘ShinyKatie’ leave Shiny Media, a departure she announced on Twitter. As TechCrunch reported, only one of the three original staff members is left, Chris Price. Shiny Media first launched in 2003, with its site TechDigest and then rapidly expanded a...

Ben Goldacre has recorded this interview with Journalism.co.uk, following initial coverage of the LBC/Jeni Barnett row last week. Read extracts or listen to the full interview at this link for ‘Goldacre’s Law’ explained; the doctor’s view on television (it’s too rude to...

So, Guardian’s Media Monkey reports a funny URL on an Express story entitled ‘Danger from Just 7 cups of coffee a day’: “(…) mention this after catching sight of the URL at the top of the story, which ends with the immortal phrase ‘utter-cock-as-usual’”...

Today’s the UK government’s ‘Digital Britain’ interim report provided quite a lot to digest, so here’s a ten point link round-up of the most important parts: A BBC News video of the Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, outlining the report. Download the report here. Lord Ca...