psmith, journalist

Today I’m speaking at the Specialised Information Publishers’ Association’s UK conference on a breakout session on digital tools for editors and publishers, in a session with my erstwhile colleague Martin Stabe, now an interactive producer at FT.com.

To sum it up very briefly, I was talking about curation, aggregation and the importance of transparency in online publishing.

Here are some of the links that I mentioned during the talk:

• Ben Goldacre on why he doesn’t trust journalists that don’t link to primary sources (here, here)

• Benoît Raphaël  of Owni.fr on the “Google newsroom”  - decentralising news production from a physical location and using free online tools to innovatively track trends, write analysis and use the wisdom of your audience.

• Journal Register CEO John Paton’s excellent post of his excellent presentation at the WAN-IFRA Summit in Zurich last month. He really did reinvent the newsroom, the products and the business by putting online first and went from bankruptcy to profit by doing so. No gimmicks – he took costs out of the business, stuck print journalists’ ego with a big fork and focused on what matters.

• Adam Tinworth on why there can be no special pleading of “our audience doesn’t get social media”.

Related articles

• Powerpoint, coffee and business cards: Media conference season gets underway (psmithjournalist.com)
• Content curation: Is it strategic syndication or simply saturation? (prsa.org)
• The Power of Curation – “The Drudge Report,” Connectedness, Serendipity, and Simplicity (scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
• Content, dethroned (buzzmachine.com)
• Engagement, curation, content, branding: Buzzwords, yes, but also accurate (stevebuttry.wordpress.com)
• The Huffington Post, ‘over-aggregation’ and the attention economy (charman-anderson.com)