Noted in an otherwise positive story about Matt Hill crowdfunding a rebooted Media Talk podcast: Asked by Press Gazette last month whether The Guardian’s decision to axe Media Talk was an indication that podcasts have had their day, Hill…
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Nostalgia is not a viable approach to journalism (part 267)
Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training appeared on the Press Gazette site. It wasn’t depressing because of the headline finding: The top four most important skills cited by editors were: writing, finding news stories, interviewing and legal…
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’…
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…
More Evidence for the Death of Print
When I heard that Press Gazette was switching to publishing once a month, with a features-led magazine, I thought it sounded like a good plan. It was exactly the sort of solution that could save a title – moving upmarket with…
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…
Journos Tweet Their 2007 Lessons
Martin Stabe has used Twitter to gather lessons learnt in 2007 from various new media hacks. I appear to be the only one who sent in a really flippant answer. Ah, well. Be true to your own voice is the…
Tony Collins: Award-Winning Digital Journalist
One of our blogging journalists, Tony Collins, has bagged the digital journalist award in the Magazine Journalism Awards, for his work exposing the failure, mismanagement and waste of the NHS IT project. According to the judges: “More of us should…