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Every journalist needs a Plan B

Have you prepared your post-journalism back-up plan? On a day I met with a talented, digital-centric former colleague who has recently been made redundant, this piece by Kevin Anderson strikes a nerve: Last summer, I noticed that a college classmate had joined a Facebook

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digital journalism

Digital journalism: time for invention, not migration

Kevin Anderson: For too long we’ve been trying to find a market for the same products that we used to deliver in print, and that just won’t work. We can’t simply write that local council story the same way that we

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change management

Don't do more with less, do different forms of journalism

Fascinating insight into Kevin Anderson’s first few months back in a newsroom: When I landed in my new job as executive editor of two newspapers in Wisconsin, I had to prioritise what I would do, and to be honest, I didn’t think

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change management

A litmus test for digital newsrooms

Kevin Anderson: Are we still struggling to get journalists to add links to their stories, to do the most basic elements of digital production, in 2013? Really? What would happen if a journalist consistently turned in half-finished copy for tomorrow’s newspaper? Yes, we

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A Few Slightly Geeky Journo Links

Time for some links: One of the most consistent themes I hear when talking to journalists around the country is frustration with the web publishing CMS they have to deal with (especially if they’ve ever used any blog platform). In that light, this

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business models

Publishing Saviours? I’m an Atheist

Kevin Anderson responding to my post from yesterday: Senior leaders in the industry aren’t looking for strategies, they are looking for a saviour. They want some supernatural – or in lieu of that, legislative – power to turn back the clock, put the genie back

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Morning Coffee Reading: Post-Easter Link Dump

Some heavyweight stuff that’s been sitting in my tabs over the holiday weekend: - [A last act of insanity by delusional content companies](http://charman-anderson.com/2010/04/02/ipad-app-pricing-a-last-act-of-insanity-by-delusional-content-companies/) – Kevin Anderson, who seems to have been liberated to write by taking voluntary

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community

Participatory Culture and Traditional Media

Kevin Anderson on why people participate in online communities and share content on them: I can tell you why I bother. A global culture of participation has been, for me, key in meeting one of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: Belonging. Originally participatory culture

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#newsinnovation : New News Business Models

Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isn’t social, as someone in

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blogging

Blogging Etiquette & The NUJ

[![Effing Blogs in The Guardian](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian-thumb-500x375-1245.jpg?resize=500%2C375)](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian.jpg)Looks like the “[effing blogs](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/