trust
Social & Digital Coffee Break: let's amplify the experts
When two trade publications hit the headlines, and some worrying insight into the experience of female journalists online.
audio
Get some audio in your engagement strategy
Why audio is critical to your audience engagement thinking, why hashtags are back on Facebook, and more to spark your imagination this week…
attention
Engaged Reading Digest: who won the attention election?
A quick round-up of useful digital publishing reading from around the web, including the Beeb on the Dark Web, and journalism LIVE.
BBC
General Election 2019: the news media failed profoundly — but not in the way you think
Reuters Institute research shows that most of what we believe about the general public and politics news is wrong — and that we are profoundly failing to engage them.
solutions journalism
Solutions journalism: who is using it - and why
Can upbeat news which delivers solutions to our problem supplant "if it bleeds, it leads"? Maybe - it's certainly proved lucrative for some publishers.
local journalism
Local Journalism: breaking out of the London bubble
Local journalism is in trouble in the UK - there's no disputing that. What can the big national sites do to help?
drama
Press - a new BBC drama set in a newsroom - gets a trailer
Oh, no. The BBC is making a drama about national newspaper journalism…
BBC
Nice example of news video shot on a phone
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/bbc-mobile.png] Here’s a nice example of a reporting video shot using a phone [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28190890] from Auntie Beeb. Note how he uses the phone’s mobility to give a sense of environment,
admin
Now we are eleven...
OM&HB is 11 years old. But who cares when there’s big media news?
BBC
Slow journalism in a real time age
James Harding on journalism today [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2014/james-harding-wt-stead.html]: > But these new formats are creating exciting competitors to the well-known 2 minute 15 item on a news bulletin or the 450 word article in a newspaper. Look at Now this News, which delivers
BBC
Digital news formats: the BBC explores linked data
Fascinating blog post exploring how the BBC is experimenting with linked data [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogbbcinternet/posts/BBC-News-Lab]: > After producing a long list of possible ‘problem spaces’ we prioritised four areas to explore: * Location and linked data. How might we use geolocation and linked data to
BBC
The BBC, Savile and editors under pressure
Charlie Beckett makes an insightful point about last night’s Panorama covering the BBC’s multiple failures to expose Jimmy Savile [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2012/10/22/the-bbc-savile-panorama-and-newsnight-closed-eyes-closed-minds/] as a paedophile and sexual predator: > Likewise, let’s put the Newsnight controversy in perspective. The Newsnight debacle