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It’s the time of year when children everywhere eagerly await the arrival of their favourite unannounced visitor down their chimney.

But jolly old St Nick may have to be careful on a Cardiff estate this year, where the council is set to introduce a new scheme which will show cold callers the cold shoulder.

Under a trial plan to begin early in 2008, three Canton streets will beco

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“Brand awareness counts,” Kim Hollamby told a relieved lecture theatre. These three simple words promised a future for traditional media, and it looked like we might all get jobs after all.

In the age of new media, newspapers as news-breakers are becoming redundant. Media companies are shaking things up, focusing more heavily on online journalism than ever before, as online advertising prices soar.

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Richard Burton believes the process of convergence and integration of news media is still a long way off. But if, as he said in his lecture, print journalism is struggling to find its feet, and large-budget websites are not cost-effective, which is the viable business?

These days most newspapers' sales are crashing to earth faster than the England football team, so print can hardly be seen as a cash cow. N… Continue

The BBC is undergoing a revolution under the banner of “integration,” as online journalism learns to live up to its potential.

With the BBC’s former news site, 25 per cent of stand-alone video and audio viewings were shared between an average of just ten clips. Now, multimedia content is embedded in stories on the site, and is to be more widely shared through external sites such as YouTube.

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Daniel Meadows proclaimed Democratisation among the promises of the digital age. But in a country where one third of adults do not regularly go online, what chance do the Capture Wales project’s Real People have of spreading their Real Life Experiences, or ‘Shoebox Stories,’ to the mass public?

42 different groups in Wales alone are now running funded digital storytelling projects. But even Professor Meadows admitted Capture Wales only works within a strict formula dictated by the BBC,… Continue