Is a more engaged and representative journalism the pathway to more sustainable local news? Chicago's City Bureau thinks so, and is setting out to prove it.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is taking community seriously with its latest hire
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has hired a community organiser, Kirsty Styles: We see ourselves as serving both the journalists/members of our network and the disparate communities that they serve across the country. By bringing these two crucial parts…
What Makes A Troll A Troll?
Research shows that two factors predict trolling behavior.
The new original sin of online publishing
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks: Again, for emphasis: despite all the whizzy bang-y social media we’ve invented these…
Fighting trolling with academic rigour
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the…
Journalists: want to pitch Medium?
For those who aren’t aware, within Medium are several publications they run in-house, including Backchannel, a tech magazine, and Matter, which is an evolved form of the long-form science journalism crowd-funded startup which I’ve written about in the…
Content, communities and the commercial property business
Once, long ago, when the world was dark, and I was stuck living in Lewisham, I was features editor of a magazine called Estates Gazette. We wrote about the world of commercial property, and one of the things I did…
Nostalgia meets satire in pre-social media
That’s a rather pretentious title to sum up a rather excellent XKCD cartoon that manages to both make me nostaligic for the chatrooms that made up some of my first experiences of community interaction on the web – and satirise…