digital journalism
Solutions journalism: a possible antidote to news apathy and disengagement Paid Members Public
A relentless stream of problem stories makes the world feel worse than it is, and makes people more susceptible to manipulation. Can solutions journalism reverse that?
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008) Paid Members Public
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
News can't afford to be funded by Google and Facebook; it will destroy our reputation Paid Members Public
Google and Facebook are now two of the biggest funders of journalism in the world. Should we be comfortable with that?
Predicting journalism’s 2018 - goodbye platforms, hello AI, and talking with Alexa Paid Members Public
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 Newman’s annual Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Today’s the day. I haven’t had the time to dive into
Slaying the myth of the digital native Paid Members Public
Nature [http://www.nature.com/news/the-digital-native-is-a-myth-1.22363] takes aim at the prevaling “wisdom” 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
To Understand Today's Politics, Let Go Of Digital Snobbery Paid Members Public
The last couple of years of campaigning – especially the last UK general election, the Scottish referendum with its “cyber-nats”, the Brexit vote and the Trump election – have made it plain to many that there’s a new set of elements at work in the public discourse – and they’re digitally-driven.
Steve Buttry passes: a loss for digital journalism Paid Members Public
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 you’re not familiar with Steve, he was one of the most prominent voices exploring the
Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles Paid Members Public
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
