Andy Boyle: It’s time to stop bifurcating your content as blogs and news because they run on separate systems. It is all content, so why not call it that? Even if you have outside people writing posts on your…
journalist blogs
A collection of 16 posts
Blogging & Journalism; Form & Function
Mr John Bethune is clearly a man of excellent taste and discernment: …let me state for the record that Tinworth is one of my favorite and most respected bloggers. (Flattery will, at the very least, get you linked.) He does,…
Thanks to...
Just a quick thank you to John & Laura of journalism.co.uk for mentioning me as one of their journalism bloggers of 2009. Also, Neil Perkin of Only Dead Fish has nominated my [Death of the News Package](http:…
Devolving Ownership for Better Blogging
Now, that’s a challenge for existing editorial teams, where the editor is used to being essentially a despotic ruler, with the desk heads as the high priests*. It requires the editor to stop being a director, but move more…
Why I Won't Miss Press Gazette
Because for all its “impact and authority”, *Press Gazette *was never really like that for me. For one reason or another, I’ve found myself working in the trade magazine niche of specialish magazines, and the whole specialist magazine sector…
Two New Blogs from Former Student Hacks
Bit frantic at the moment – been off for a week, and returned to a pile of work. But today I’ve discovered to my delight that two old friends from my days on [Felix](http://www.felixonline.co.uk/), Imperial…
Another Drop in the Media Ocean
Patrick Smith of Press Gazette (which may be about to go web-only), has finally dipped his toes into the bloggy waters of journalistic blogging with his own blog, Another Drop in the Ocean. And, like the good hack that he…
B2B Blog Traffic versus Nationals Blog Traffic
I’ve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Times’ blogs and…