Journalism
Life in the Kremlin's troll farm
Some fascinating reporting on Russia's misinformation operations, and how they aim to influence elections…
Journalism
Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
digital journalism
Their contempt for digital is your competitive edge
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,
business models
Pando erects paywall of irrelevance
Pando, occasional unapologetic copyright thieves [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/06/pando-copyright-abuse.html], have decided to erect a paywall [https://pando.com/2015/06/22/welcome-new-pando/]: > From today, the newest articles on Pando will be available to members first. Membership costs just $10 a month (or $100 a
analytics
Journalism: a craft with some useful metrics
Martin Belam on the reasons for his latest post [http://martinbelam.com/2015/piggy-back-part-ii/]: > And having just sat through an event where one of the questions was a worry that knowing something about SEO or writing for social risks “losing the craft” of journalism, I thought it was worth
features
How long is "long form"? Longer than you think…
Some interesting figures on the length of popular long articles saved into read later app Pocket [https://medium.com/@Pocket/surprise-our-attention-spans-aren-t-dead-154ce24e5aab] : > In the Top 500 most-saved articles from the first half of 2015, we found that the average article length is 3,190 words, which would take over 15
general election
General Election 2015: the election the newspapers lost?
The next few days could be a very interesting one for our national press. The vast majority have thrown their weight behind either the Tories or a continued LibDem/Tory coalition. The hold outs are the traditional Labour house organs – The Guardian, The Mirror and the New Statesman – and the
digital disruption
Has digital disruption for media plateaued?
Charlie Beckett thinks he detects signs of a stabilisation in media’s transition to digital [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2015/04/29/is-this-the-end-of-the-future-of-news/] : > At last they had a sense of where the battle lines are: mobile, algorithms, native advertising, millennial’s, wearables, etc. They have moved on
Journalism
The print-digital tension, through the eyes of a student
Here’s a very interesting piece from a student newspaper editor in the US [http://qz.com/394426/i-am-editor-of-my-college-newspaper-and-the-job-i-trained-for-no-longer-exists/] : > My peers are interested in reading news, but they have no loyalties whatsoever about where it comes from. You can be the greatest columnist in the world, but it will
content strategy
Going native with social media content
MG Siegler [http://parislemon.com/post/111101766802/can-snapchat-bend-content-to-its-will]: > True power is when media creates content explicitly for a network, rather than simply repackaging it. A useful insight. A lot of work has been done over the last decade on workflows and tech for pushing the same content through multiple
digital journalism
Why this general election is a great test of news sites' digital evolution
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
City St George’s
Freedom of Information at 10: a debate
A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/city-uni-foi-at-10-panel.jpg] As Chair Roy Greenslade [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/roygreenslade] points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press
Blogging
How blogging became today's new journalism
Ben Smith, Buzzfeed’s editor in chief [http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/this-is-my-blog]: > Indeed, the strongest new news outlets and the most nimble elements of the old ones have also co-opted and professionalized the tools and ethos of bloggers — fast, direct publishing; an informal voice; a commitment to transparency.