Free Post attention Why completion matters to digital journalism There's a psychological impact of completion we ignore at our peril
Free Post digital journalism The Basics of Digital Journalism: Attention and Atomisation There are two fundamental concepts needed to understand digital journalism. Here's a quick primer.
Free Post podcasting The Guardian squandered its institutional knowledge of podcasts Over a decade ago, The Guardian was a genuine innovator, launching a daily news podcast. It's revisiting that idea in 2018 - seemingly unaware that they've done it before.
Free Post ghost One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0 I've just updated the Ghost CMS I use to run this blog to version 2.0 - and it's a little glimpse of the future.
Free Post solutions journalism Solutions journalism: a possible antidote to news apathy and disengagement 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?
Free Post digital journalism 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.
Free Post digital journalism 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?
Free Post blogs 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,
Free Post digital culture 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 with a smartphone. The
Free Post digital journalism 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
Free Post digital journalism Steve Buttry passes: a loss for digital journalism Sad news: Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer. If you’re not familiar with
Free Post alt right media Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles The Guardian’s SnowCuck-General* Martin Belam has hit the nail on the head with some of the problems inherent to the current fact-checking culture in response to a political movement
Free Post audience engagement "Bullshit curation" is bullshit Someone has a cynicism problem: The art of good headline writing and image selection in order to get someone to click and go to a website is usually called “clickbaiting,” but I think we should call it “bullshit curation.” Oh, because clearly there’s
Free Post digital journalism Om Malik on daily journalism Some good advice for journalists from Om Malik, even if it swims against the “volume over all” tide: At Gigaom we didn’t push our reporters to do 10 posts
Free Post Hacks/Hackers London: it's only going to get harder to get a ticket - and that's just how it should be I’m not sure I’d have believed you if you’d told me five years ago that Hacks/Hackers London would become so popular that people are screaming and
