Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
charlie hebdo
Satire is a wonderful part of our political debate. Satire is an under-appreciated part of journalism. Satirical websites and magazines are a celebration of what it means to be human, and a powerful tool to undermine those who would control us. No wonder people want to destroy it [http://www.
Journalism
Om Malik [http://om.co/2014/12/31/what-happened-in-2014/]: > 2014 was the year online video became the norm. It was also the year news happened elsewhere than established media brands. Yup.
gaming
Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014 [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/12/26/a-review-of-online-journalism-in-2014-and-predictions-for-2015/] . Of note: > YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there are serious
business models
Panel * Ben Huh, Cheezburger * Michael J. Wolf, Activate * Frédéric Filloux, Groupe Les Echos * Host: Cedric Ingrand, Podcaster & resident geek at LCI/TF1 The revenue challenge [https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/Frederic-Filloux.jpg] Frédéric Filloux: This will be the first year in six years
Journalism
What can publisher learn from the memes of I Can Has Cheezburger? More than you think, according to CEO Ban Huh.
funding
Vox Media has just secured another funding round [http://recode.net/2014/11/30/yet-another-big-funding-round-for-a-big-web-publisher-this-time-for-vox-media/] : > Vox Media, the company behind high-profile sites including The Verge, SB Nation and Vox, has raised $46.5 million in a round led by General Atlantic. The funding gives Vox a post-money valuation of
future of news
I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury [http://digiday.com/platforms/profjeffjarvis-thinkfluencing/], the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis [https://twitter.com/ProfJeffJarvis]: > A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s
gamergate
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/10/obligatory_gamergate_post.html] would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data
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
Journalism
Om Malik [http://om.co/2014/08/29/how-google-can-really-help-news-media/]: > If technology has upended the media ecosystem, then it should also be the solution for that ecosystem to adapt to the new hyper-speed reality of news and information. What we need is a set of tools that basically are a
attention
Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova [http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/maria-popova/8840-maria-popova-on-information-in-the-digital-age] , curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings [http://www.brainpickings.org] blog. Some choice highlights: > I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into
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