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Category Archives: Journalism tools

#SIPAUK2011: Links and slides from my presentation on journalism, aggregation and curation

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Tweet 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 [...]

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#newsrw: Heather Brooke on the PR gatekeepers of officialdom

Friday, May 27, 2011

Tweet The modern journalist’s role is not merely to report news, but to filter and distil masses of information that matters to the public and present it so they can act on it. And reporters have to realise that supposedly independent government officials will always try to keep data secret where it might cause a [...]

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Vaughan Smith on life and death on the frontline in Afghanistan

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tweet As much as I enjoy the media jungle and talking about digital media for a living, there are times when it’s worth watching the work of journalists who work in genuine life and death situations. One such is Vaughan Smith, founder of the Frontline Club (where I worked very happily during 2010). Vaughan has [...]

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The sad story of Yahoo, Delicious and what to use next

Friday, December 31, 2010

Tweet I can’t help feeling that Delicious is one of the many services that Yahoo forgot that it owned and couldn’t see a way for it to integrate with its ad-supported news’n’content’n’stuff model. But the semantically-tagged fat lady has yet to sing for the bookmarking service. Right now, we know Yahoo doesn’t want Delicious any [...]

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Blog to get a job in journalism: build a community, promote yourself and get networking

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tweet How do you get a job in journalism? Get a blog. Well, it may certainly help you, but I’ve just seen a panel of speakers at City University and that’s what they said. Josh Halliday, Dave Lee and Conrad Quilty-Harper told a room of students how they found gainful employment in journalism through their [...]

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Link to the past: why do some news sites STILL not link out in 2010?

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tweet Journalists now invariably have to take part in web journalism and an increasing number of them only write for the web. But despite that, not all of them use hyperlinks - one of the main things that elevate digital journalism above and beyond its print counterpart by adding relevance, context, facts, proof and sometimes wit to an otherwise [...]

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Tips for trainee journalists: be digital, promote yourself and find a niche

Friday, May 14, 2010

Tweet Image via Wikipedia Today I’m speaking to journalism students at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds, where I graduated with a journalism degree a few years back. Here’s a flavour of what I’m telling them, with some links and media for anyone that decided to turn up in person… It seems odd to [...]

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Video journalism on the frontline in Afghanistan

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tweet There isn’t much to add to the video below: in case you haven’t seen it, this is Frontline Club founder and journalist Vaughan Smith’s remarkable video report from Helmand province, where he’s been embedded with British troops for the last month. What I will say: this is what solo video journalists can achieve… (Big [...]

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Mobile journalism tools: broadcast yourself with Audioboo

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Tweet It’s not enough to write the news anymore, apparently you’ve got to talk it now as well. But that’s OK, because there are lots of ways to do it fast, for free and to a surprisingly good standard. Mashable has these handy tips for reporters on the go (via Sarah), but I thought I’d [...]

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