@currybet's bumper book of #jeecamp links for 2009-05-10
by Martin Belam, 10 May 2009
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"Attendees at the Birmingham online journalism 'unconference' find their enthusiasm renewed during trying times"
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Interview with the editor of Redbrick
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"A lot of people from the local/regional press were there, and had a lot to complain about….I don’t read local newspapers, and to be very honest, never have. Have you?"
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Includes an archive of the live coverage and some video clips
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"During the Q&A session following my keynote speech at yesterday’s JEECamp, John Thompson questioned my assertion that there are only ever two exits for a new company: selling or going bust. Of course there’s a third - floating - but that’s not what he meant."
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"Kyle MacRae talks about the rise and fall of Scoopt, his own history in journalism, citizen journalism and if there is a business model to be found somewhere."
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Jamillah Knowles from the BBC interviewed by @documentally
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"James Hatts, editor at London-SE1, a local news site in London, talks about community news at JEEcamp 2009".
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"Documentally from OurManInside.com talks about the value of your network as a journalist. Recorded at JEEcamp".
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Video of the first "random panel", chaired by Joanna Geary from Times Online.
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Kasper Sorensen's video of the second "random panel"
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"Twelve months on and the journalism universe looks very different now. A year ago, we were just seeing the start of the recessionary effects on our industry - job cuts, papers closing, freelance budgets being slashed. Since then, literally thousands of jobs have gone and the changes are not over yet. Give it another 12 months and the landscape will look different again. None of us knows what it might look like, but it will be radically different to the traditional model of print media funded by advertising."
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"One newspaper publisher has come up with a new way of making money. Charging people for work experience placements. Absolutely shocking".
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"@currybet I'm tweeting on 3 phones through eight different secret accounts you will never keep up. My clone is at another event ;) #jeecamp"
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"Supposing the BNP takes control of a council and its newspaper in the local elections?"
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"Kyle McRae, founder of Scoopt, talks about the creation of a business based on UGC, its sale to Getty and it’s eventual demise two years later. Warning: These are rough notes, taken by me, for me at today’s JEECamp in Birmingham. This means there are typos and misspellings aplenty."
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"A year ago, we were just seeing the start of the recessionary effects on our industry - job cuts, closed papers, freelance budgets affected etc - now the landscape looks very different and one thing is clear. Whatever that landscape will look like in another 12 months' time (and none of us can predict that), hacks are going to have be enterprising and create their own opportuinities"
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"Journalists will become largely self employed and will survive by adding value to their content and acquiring the skills of publication and selling as well."
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"I was in Birmingham yesterday for JEEcamp’09. It’s a great opportunity to talk about journalism and, more specifically, how to make money from it. I met Martin Belam and asked him his views."
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"A team of livebloggers [covered] the event here on the Online Journalism Blog - remind yourself below…"
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"Birmingham is playing host to a one day 'unconference' looking at future business models for online journalism in the UK"
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"UGC photo site Scoopt founder Kyle Macrae says: The BBC's approach to user-generated content robbed us of revenue."
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"Sweeble, SoGlos and SE1 showed the Birmingham 'Journalism Enterprise and Experimentation unconference' ways to succeed in hyper-local"