10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
digital journalism
A collection of 64 posts
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…
To Understand Today's Politics, Let Go Of Digital Snobbery
The last couple of years of campaigning – especially the last UK general election, the Scottish referendum with its “cyber-nats”, the Brexit vote and the Trump election – have made it plain to many that there’s a new set of elements…