Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Journalism
Bobbie Johnson on the future of journalismās shiny new obsession Snowfall [https://medium.com/inside-matter/66b9060333ad] (and its ilk): > Yet almost every example of snowfalling that Iāve seen in action puts reading second to the razzle-dazzle. Can you even remember what happens in Snowfall? Do you remember
Journalism
Everything you need to know about journalists and social media in one cartoon [http://xkcd.com/1239/]ā¦
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/desk-blogging.jpg] Once upon a time ā and it feels like a long time ago ā it was my job to get people blogging. I took poor, ink-stained wretches from their journalistic bunkers, and introduced them to the digital world. It
Journalism
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/2d9acfa6e024cd3c04a120459f1d1898973195fe.jpg] * Warning: liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling typos. Some of them will be mine, some of them auto-correctās. But donāt say you werenāt warnedā¦* Libby Powell [http://www.libbypowell.com/] became a hack
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/image.jpg] Warning: liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling typos. Some of them will be mine, some of them auto-correctās. But donāt say you werenāt warnedā¦ USvsth3m [http://usvsth3m.com/] is an experiment funded by
james ball
A really compelling tale of behind-the-scenes life at Wikileaks [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/30/exclusive-former-wikileaks-employee-james-ball-describes-working-with-julian-assange.html] from James Ball: > Faced with the bizarre situation of being asked to sign a gag order by a whistleblowing organization, I, alone, refused. Encouraged by Julian (I later learned), WikiLeaks
education
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/back-garden-baby.jpg] How unexpected was that? A Bank Holiday weekend, and beautiful weather the whole time. Gorgeous. At least, thatās what I hear. Personally, I was stuck inside marking, a result of having spent part of the past
citizen journalism
Like many opinionated rant online commentators about journalism, I get fairly regular e-mails from students asking for my comments on journalism, blogging and social media. Inspired by Jon Bernstein making his responses [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/how-has-iphone-changed-way-we-read-news-and-other-questions] to one set of questions public, Iāve decided to do
Journalism
Patrick Smith Storified the traditional media coverage of Thatcherās death [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2013-04-08/baroness-thatcher-dies-how-breaking-news-works] . The key take-away? Liveblogging is the main way the nationals are covering events like this. Itās odd, because a majority of journalisms still seem to regard liveblogging as a niche activity,
Blogs
Private Frazerās Doomed Magazines is five years old [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/five-years-down/]. At this rate it might out-live the industry: > Actually, of course publishing will survive, but in five years time there will be fewer titles and fewer big companies. Magazines will continue to
City St Georgeās
When journalists use social media, should they blur professional and personal lines? My Interactive Journalism students [http://www.interhacktives.com] at City University setup a Google+ Hangout (with some shepherding from Judith Townend [http://meejalaw.com]) to discuss the issue [http://www.interhacktives.com/2013/02/28/journalism-and-social-media-professional-platform-or-personal-playground/] , and I
authority
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/02/flipchart-funster.jpg] Iāve just finished another session of my SEO for Journalists [http://www.journalism.co.uk/seo-for-journalists/s336/] course, run via journalism.co.uk. I love running this course ā not only do I get paid for it
