digital journalism
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
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The stranglehold of the journalistic orthodoxy
The stranglehold of the journalistic orthodoxy [http://om.co/2016/01/13/the-journalistic-orthodoxy/] A brutal condemnation of the mindset that has stopped traditional journalism embracing change – and still does – from Om Malik: > Instead of trying to understand this change in behavior, the media establishment kept saying, “It’s not
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The FT gets an innovation editor
The Financial Times has appointed a new innovation editor [http://aboutus.ft.com/2016/01/06/ft-appoints-deputy-editor-and-innovation-editor/#axzz3wOKxDpxR] John Thornhill moves from deputy editor to innovation editor. > Thornhill will oversee the FT’s award-winning global comment team to transform the way the FT commissions, edits and publishes commentary on
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Meaning - Stefania Druga: Saving the world, one play session at a time
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/stefania-druga.jpg] Stefania Druga [https://twitter.com/stefania_druga] equips people to solve their own problems through
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Buttry academic goodness, the new home for digital journalism proponents?
Steve Buttry is heading into journalism education [http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/my-next-adventure-teaching-at-lsu/] : > The next chapter of my career will be at Louisiana State University. After I wrap up my work at Digital First Media July 1, I will become the Lamar Visiting Scholar at LSU’s
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Don't do more with less, do different forms of journalism
Fascinating insight into Kevin Anderson’s first few months back in a newsroom [http://charman-anderson.com/2014/04/29/rebuilding-journalism-through-building-a-community-platform/] : > 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’
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A litmus test for digital newsrooms
Kevin Anderson [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/experimentation-culture-change-anderson-kevin-newspapers] : > 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,
business models
Journalism's Groundhog Day - the excuse that won't die
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/groundhog-day-phil-connors.jpg] Today’s the day that all the old arguments about what’s gone wrong with journalism and publishing come out to play: David Higgerson has discovered that the “original sin” argument that giving away our content free
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Digital is easy. Journalism is easy. Change is hard.
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/on-the-shelves.jpg] Why is the transition to digital going so badly for most journalism companies? There’s plenty of knowledge out there about how to do good digital journalism, and growing bodies of evidence about how you can derive
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Does newsroom change create bullying?
Andreas Whittam Smith [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/is-there-bullying-in-your-workplace-heres-why-8738196.html] : > The Care Quality Commission review quotes Professor Frans Cilliers’s view that bullying often surfaces in organisations during periods of significant change and transformation in which there are high levels of performance anxiety. The bullying behaviour is
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LeWeb : Why digital hippies matter
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/Axelle-Tessandier.jpg] Axelle Tessandier, Founder, Axl Agency [http://axlagency.com/] Being a digital hippies is a mindset. We are the first generation used to pervasive interconnectedness – and so we’re constantly exposed to ideas, news and emotions. 73% of
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One big secret of journalism change management
Martin Couzins on modelling behaviour [http://itsdevelopmental.com/2012/modelling-behavior/]: > If you are the one who is trying to encourage others to try something out then a good place to start is to model the behavior ie actually use the tools and techniques you are helping others to adopt.