AWJ - Events you might want to live blog - Journalism at Westminster

02/11/2011

AWJ - Events you might want to live blog

Today we're going to try live blogging for a while in the afternoon. There are various things we could cover - real live news events or past events that have been filmed... We can talk about what you want to do. Here are a few options:

Ongoing events in Egypt, obviously - one place to start would be Al Jazeera English's live stream
An Apple product launch - this one is for the last lot of iPods.
Or how about the launch of Google Instant
If you want something similar but more up to date, you could try the Hewlett Packard launch this week (for their webOS and tablet)
Something less techy and more serious - David Cameron's recent speech criticising multiculturalism

I think the most interesting one to do would be Egypt. In some ways it would be the easiest too, because it is live and because you can use all the stuff going on on Twitter/Facebook/Tumblr etc... But it's up to you.

11 Feb 2011 12:10:00 | AWJ, AWJ - Session 4, Blogging, Year 2

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