Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Journalism
Just in case you missed it over the weekend, the UK Government are considering making it possible to seize reportersā notebooks and hard-drives [http://boingboing.net/2014/02/01/uk-parliament-considers-allowi.html], after secret hearingsā¦ > The Deregulation Bill is coming before the UK House of Commons on Monday, and among
apple
Talking about your first Mac is A Thing right now. Itās because itās the Macās 30th anniversary [http://gigaom.com/2014/01/24/apple-celebrates-30th-anniversary-of-mac-with-video-and-redesigned-homepage/] , and everyoneās getting terribly excited about the whole thing. I canāt claim to have been a Mac user for 30 years.
data journalism
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/data-journalism-panel-3479.html] Liveblogged notes from the Data Journalism: Mapping the future? [http://www.themediasociety.com/event-data-journalism-mapping-future-22-january-2014/] event held by the Media Society [http://www.themediasociety.com] last night. Please note: not a complete transcription, and captured in real-time and thus liable
Buzzfeed
Iāve been watching Buzzfeed UK with interest since Patrick Smith [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith] jumped ship from The Media Briefing to join them last year. I was curious to see some examples of his journalism filtered through Buzzfeedās style. Hereās a couple of examples: * The Independent
comments
What happens when journalists interact with the comments section [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/what-happens-when-journalists-interact-with-comments/s2/a555603/] ? > Over a study period of 70 days, the TV station reacted to comments on its Facebook page in one of three ways: a prominent political reporter interacted with commenters; the station,
iphoneography
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/undersea-selfie-3457.html] This rather excellent feature about the transition from camera to smartphones [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/goodbye-cameras.html] by Craig Mod was doing the rounds over the festive period: > After importing the results into
BBC
James Harding on journalism today [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2014/james-harding-wt-stead.html]: > But these new formats are creating exciting competitors to the well-known 2 minute 15 item on a news bulletin or the 450 word article in a newspaper. Look at Now this News, which delivers
Journalism
This, I think, highlights one of the big challenge to journalists of the 21st Century. People are starting to associate the writing style weāve been taught ā CSWE, for Clinical Standard Written English, as the author defines it ā with lack of openness. The legacy of social media is a different
business strategy
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/ampp3d-3427.html] When I first heard about Trinity Mirrorās Us vs th3m [http://usvsth3m.com], I rolled my eyes. Did the UK really need another Buzzfeed clone? Were our publishers incapable of innovating rather than jumping on yet another bandwagon?
editing
So, I filed some copy the best part of seven weeks ago. I donāt do much traditional journalism freelance any more ā and pretty much all the work I do choose to do is as an expert commenter, or where Iām give pretty much free reign. This one set
greenwich
853 [http://feedly.com/k/1aAGZcs]: > Greenwich Council has finally come clean and admitted its weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, is signed off by leader Chris Robertsā¦ āto ensure political neutrality and to protect the boroughās reputationā. Council-run newspapers and magazines are not journalism, theyāre propaganda. They will
City St Georgeās
The third intake of Interactive Journalism MA students at City University have got the keys to the class blog, and are up and running [http://www.interhacktives.com/2013/11/13/welcome-back/]: > Hereās saying hello from we 3rd gen interhacktives! Since 2011, this site has chronicled the journeys
