Blogs
Oh, happy day. Those of us in the online journalism development business get an annual present a little later than Christmas. January is when Nic Newmanās annual Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Todayās the day. I havenāt had the time to dive into
digital culture
Nature [http://www.nature.com/news/the-digital-native-is-a-myth-1.22363] takes aim at the prevaling āwisdomā that the younger generation are more digitally adept: > But a paper published last month in Teaching and Teacher Education reaches the opposite conclusion. The digital native is a myth, it claims: a yeti with a
digital journalism
The last couple of years of campaigning ā especially the last UK general election, the Scottish referendum with its ācyber-natsā, the Brexit vote and the Trump election ā have made it plain to many that thereās a new set of elements at work in the public discourse ā and theyāre digitally-driven.
digital journalism
Sad news [https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/journalist-steve-buttry-dies-of-pancreatic-cancer-at-age-62/] : > Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer. If youāre not familiar with Steve, he was one of the most prominent voices exploring the
alt right media
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
audience engagement
Someone has a cynicism problem [https://medium.com/@aaronloeb/you-wont-believe-what-hillary-ordered-the-dnc-to-do-to-bernie-s-brother-a344eb5bad1b#.4sjg9snuz] : > The art of good headline writing and image selection in order to get someone to click and go to a website is usually called āclickbaiting,ā but I think we should call it ābullshit curation.ā Oh, because clearly thereā
digital journalism
Some good advice for journalists from Om Malik [http://om.co/2016/05/10/lets-stop-chicken-mcnugget-reporting/], even if it swims against the āvolume over allā tide: > At Gigaom we didnāt push our reporters to do 10 posts a day. I always advised folks to write on an average 1,
Iām not sure Iād have believed you if youād told me five years ago that Hacks/Hackers London [http://www.meetup.com/HacksHackersLondon/] would become so popular that people are screaming and complaining at the organisers because they canāt get tickets to the event ā which is
Blogging
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 ā and still does ā from Om Malik: > Instead of trying to understand this change in behavior, the media establishment kept saying, āItās not
beth ashton
Hereās a tweet that cheers me immensely: > Core message for journalism on social media says @BethAshton [https://twitter.com/BethAshton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #NewslabMCR [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewslabMCR?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/DLI7fJLtjT [http://t.co/DLI7fJLtjT] ā Alison Gow (@alisongow)
digital journalism
Lovely quote here from Wolfgang Blau, The Guardianās director of digital strategy: > 5. Why (the hell) do so many young journalists still want to write the title story of a print (!) magazine? Why (the hell) would you even care? Let them. If they have contempt for digital journalism,
cuts
A new boss at The Mirror is sweeping away the digital innovations of his predecessor. Not invented here syndrome at workā¦