A relentless stream of problem stories makes the world feel worse than it is, and makes people more susceptible to manipulation. Can solutions journalism reverse that?
Solutions journalism: a possible antidote to news apathy and disengagement
digital journalism
A collection of 65 posts
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
News can't afford to be funded by Google and Facebook; it will destroy our reputation
Google and Facebook are now two of the biggest funders of journalism in the world. Should we be comfortable with that?
Predicting journalism’s 2018 - goodbye platforms, hello AI, and talking with Alexa
Oh, happy day. Those of us in the online journalism development business get an annual present a little later than Christmas. January is when Nic Newman’s annual Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Today’s the…
Slaying the myth of the digital native
Nature takes aim at the prevaling “wisdom” that the younger generation are more digitally adept: But a paper published last month in Teaching and Teacher Education reaches the opposite conclusion. The digital native is a myth, it claims: a yeti…