Wednesday, January 20, 2010
This is re-posted from the Forum blog, over at the Frontline Club, where I’ve been doing some work reporting and organising events…. Journalists and human rights campaigners need to “expose the truth” behind the United States’ extra-judicial prison camps such as Guantanamo Bay and Bagram prison in Afghanistan. That’s the call from leading human rights [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The cockeyed economics of metering reading « BuzzMachine Worth quoting at length because he is right on this: “[NYT paywall plan] is based on the assumption that content is a consumable, a scarcity that drains the more it is read. Of course, it isn’t. Content is, instead, a magnet that can create relationships of value; [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Dangers of Journalistic Myopia – One Man and His Blog Adders puts it very simply to curmudgeon journalists: evolve or die: “…if those people who are pushing at the edges of online journalism – the spaghetti throwers, as George Brock put it – slow down and wait for the rest of the industry to [...]
I’m a fan of Blunt, the pseudonymous author of the Playing the Game: Real Adventures in Journalism blog on life inside a regional newspaper. He (She?) consistently tells it like it is and gives a valuable glimpse into how the endless staff and resource cuts have affected papers’ quality. On the raping and pillaging of [...]
‘It would be an insult to the memory of Rupert Hamer for us to stop covering war from the frontline’ | The Wire | Press Gazette Thomas Harding of the Daily Telegraph: “Surely it would be an insult to the memory of Rupert Hamer for us to stop covering the war from the frontline?” (tags: [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
the framley examiner I cannot remember laughing so hard at something as this. (tags: framleyexaminer comdey newspapers regionals) BBC – dot.Rory: The 3G traffic jam – where next? Rory on the – for me, unresolved – 3G problem: “Then along came Apple, with the iPhone and the Apps Store, and both O2 in the UK [...]
Science journalists ‘passive recipients of news’ – Press Gazette “Cardiff University surveyed 42 national science, health and technology news journalists from across the UK as part of a Government-commissioned report. Some 46 per cent said that most of the time they were “passive recipients” of news stories and 22 per cent said they no longer [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The prospects for hyperlocal, grass-roots publishing in the UK are good and the sector is growing fast. But with all consumer media – local, national, regional – suffering from permanent content economy shifts (i.e. Google = more efficient than print) and the short-term recession – surely no one can make a living from local online [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
What’s the future of journalism? Throwing imaginary Italian food at walls and seeing what sticks? Well, it’s more complicated than that but spaghetti throwing was the metaphorical practice recommended by City University’s head of journalism George Brock at Journalism.co.uk’s News:Rewired conference. The former Times exec kicked off the day by calling for innovation and bravery [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Taxpayer funded town hall “propaganda” newspapers referred to watchdog (From Sutton Guardian) This is not as simple as it seems. If councils *have* to get their message out, why should they be forced to buy ads in papers with falling circultion? (tags: newspapers local regional council) Watchdog rounds on Hoxton hotel – Building Design “The [...]
