digital journalism
"Bullshit curation" is bullshit Paid Members Public
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 “clickbaiting,” but I think we should call it “bullshit curation.” Oh, because clearly there’
Om Malik on daily journalism Paid Members Public
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 “volume over all” tide: > At Gigaom we didn’t push our reporters to do 10 posts a day. I always advised folks to write on an average 1,
Hacks/Hackers London: it's only going to get harder to get a ticket - and that's just how it should be Paid Members Public
I’m not sure I’d have believed you if you’d 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 can’t get tickets to the event – which is
The stranglehold of the journalistic orthodoxy Paid Members Public
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
Making incredible journalism from the past and the present Paid Members Public
Here’s 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] — Alison Gow (@alisongow)
Their contempt for digital is your competitive edge Paid Members Public
Lovely quote here from Wolfgang Blau, The Guardian‘s 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,
Mirror takes an axe to digital new formats team Paid Members Public
A new boss at The Mirror is sweeping away the digital innovations of his predecessor. Not invented here syndrome at work…
The digital cluster bomb for journalism Paid Members Public
Editor-in-Chief-elect of The Guardian, Katharine Viner is a speech 18 months ago: > In fact, digital is a huge conceptual change, a sociological change, a cluster bomb blowing apart who we are and how our world is ordered, how we see ourselves, how we live. It’s a change we’
