Free Post BBC How Boris Johnson gets his news From his column in The Telegraph**, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and read a fair quantity of newsprint,
Free Post NUJ (Still) Criminalising Photographers I finding it deeply worrying that the police are still doing this kind of thing: > The [National Union of Journalists](http://www.nuj.org.uk/ "National Union of Journalists") (NUJ) has hit out at the [Metropolitan Police](http://www.met.police.uk/ "Metropolitan Police
Free Post journalism NUJ Moving With The Times Credit where credit’s due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle earlier in the year. How so?- NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has [finally found his blogging mojo](http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html) this
Free Post humour A Note to Prospective NUJ Members We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things happening amongst the membership. It’s not all hard-Left
Free Post #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
Free Post blogging Blogging Etiquette & The NUJ [](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian.jpg)Looks like the “[effing blogs](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/
Free Post journalism York Journalists in Lunchtime Stoppages The other side of the NUJ debate is, of course, the fact that there are dramatic levels of job cuts happening in the industry. And, in some places, those are being fought. NUJ members in York are conducting lunchtime stoppages to [protest four job
Free Post blogging NUJ: Response from a Union Official I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another member’s post which stated that the member hadn’t come across any journalist who don’t believe that good
Free Post blogging The NUJ, Social Media and Video Conversation Laura Oliver of Journalism.co.uk has started a video conversation about the NUJ & social media over on video conversation service Seesmic: If you’ve got a webcam, you can join in.
Free Post blogging The NUJ & Social Media: A Few Follow-ups A few very quick response to the NUJ furore, as I’m back from holiday today, and a longer response will have to wait for me to clear my inbox at work. First up, thank you to everyone who got involved in the comments
Free Post blogging NUJ: "effing blogs" One of the things I love about blogging, and digital journalism generally, is that you get a much clearer picture of who is reading your work, and how they get to your site. For instance this was in my referrer logs in my analytics
Free Post digital journalism NUJ: Still Not "Getting" Social Media I have something of a love/hate relationship with the National Union of Journalists. Love, because I believe in the principle of unions, and because the NUJ has done good things for some of my former colleagues. Hate, because I think it’s completely
Free Post journalism NUJ Campaigning Against Police Harassment While I haven’t always been very impressed by the NUJ of late, this latest bit of campaigning is spot on: Rather ironically, given the NUJ’s wariness about blogging, this was spotted on the blog-based [Journalism.co.uk](http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/
Free Post journalism NUJ Report I had the chance to finally read the whole report last night and, while I won’t get the chance to write up my reactions until tomorrow night at the earliest, on the whole, I’m impressed. It’s far from perfect, and there’
Free Post journalism NUJ Multimedia Working Report Out, Union Still Clueless on Blogging The NUJ’s Shaping the Future report on multi-media working is out this morning. Martin Stabe has some intial thoughts about it over on the Press Gazette blog. The NUJ has publishing a story on its new-look website, predictably attacking bosses. I’ve downloaded