digital journalism
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’
digital journalism
The advent of fixed term parliaments [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011] in the UK will make this a particularly interesting general election from a digital journalism point of view. This will be the first election where the newspapers (and others sites – but the newspapers are the
digital journalism
Kevin Anderson [http://charman-anderson.com/2015/02/03/local-journalism-business-models-that-dont-rely-on-scale/] : > For too long we’ve been trying to find a market for the same products that we used to deliver in print, and that just won’t work. We can’t simply write that local council story the same way
City St George’s
Like The Doctor in Doctor Who, every now and again, the Interhacktives website [http://www.interhacktives.com] falls over, and then gets up looking different, with a changed outlook on life. Except The Doctor does this at irregular intervals. And Interhacktives does it once a year. Abandoning metaphor. Interhacktives is
digital journalism
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/09/bing-it.jpg] I am something of an accidental SEO trainer. It all came about because of a phone call from Sarah Marshall [https://twitter.com/SarahMarshall], a little over two years ago – but it has been an unexpected and
digital journalism
Interesting interview with Anthony De Rosa [http://www.wework.com/magazine/inspiration/journey-worth-following-anthony-de-rosa-climb-from-tumblr-to-circa-editor/] : > Through live blogging, De Rosa says he began to learn the value of information verification. Social media poses an increasingly large problem in the spreading of false or inaccurate information. Especially in times of breaking news,
digital journalism
If Standard Markdown (now CommonMark) wants to replace Markdown, it needs to acknowledge that it's not just a markup standard for coders.
digital journalism
Fascinating account from Storyful about their social media verification work around the downing of flight MH17 [http://blog.storyful.com/2014/07/19/how-social-sleuthing-uncovered-evidence-of-anti-aircraft-missile-system-in-eastern-ukraine/] : > In the aftermath of the attack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal affairs released the video below, described as showing a ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft missile system being
Matt Nevarra [http://www.twitter.com/MattNavarraUK] hosting Panel: * Bella Hurrell [http://www.twitter.com/BellaHurrell], assistant editor, visual journalism, BBC News * Ezra Eeman [http://www.twitter.com/ezraeeman], founder, Journalism Tools * Jo Kelly [http://www.twitter.com/jokelly], head of audience engagement, Trinity Mirror * Ben Fogarty [http://www.twitter.
digital journalism
Lovely close to the New Yorker piece announcing the new website [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/note-readers]: > Publishing the best work possible remains our aim. Advances in design and technology are tools in that effort. In all forms—digital and paper—we intend to publish in
change management
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
Automattic
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is teaming with a student journalist to sue a “Straight Rights” organisation’s press officer for abusing the DMCA takedown process [http://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-demands-10000-dmca-takedown-abuse-140615/]: > Hotham wrote an article about “Straight Pride UK” which included a comment he received from the organization’s