engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: newsroom culture, Twitter reality and better newsletters
If you read the first couple of links, you'll understand why I call this series of posts what I do.
engaged reading digest
If you read the first couple of links, you'll understand why I call this series of posts what I do.
digital journalism
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
culture change
How Twitter went bad [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/] : > In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there’s a kind
culture change
Emily Bell on the consequences of replacing Twitter’s stars [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/08/twitter-heart-wrong-beat] – “favourites” – with hearts – “likes”: > I found myself not bookmarking, as I would have done a day earlier, a horrifying image retweeted by journalists depicting men using phones to film a
business
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/bob-doak.jpg] Bob Doak [http://2014.meaningconference.co.uk/#speakers/bob-doak] works for WL Gore & Associates
change
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
culture
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/mark-stevenson.jpg] Mark Stevenson [http://www.twitter.com/optimistontour] is a cultural change consultant. Douglas Adams said
culture
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
comics
Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: > Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells more in digital than print,
culture
Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art [http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219] in a piece for the WSJ: > There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first
culture change
Interesting idea in a New York Times Bits blog interview with the woman behind the I Forgot My Phone video [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/disruptions-more-connected-yet-more-alone/?_r=1&] : > Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning
BBC
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