Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
City St George’s
I just got my first click-through to this site from a blog written by one of my students on the City University journalism MA. It’s a small milestone, but one that made me oddly happy. Thanks for the link, Jess [http://jessdenham.wordpress.com]. I rather like this, from
Journalism
Is this video real? Malachy Browne does the verification [http://blog.storyful.com/2012/10/09/find-that-fireball-when-journalist-turns-stalker/#.UH-_UbRyyZe] . That’s how journalism is done.
academia
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/city-uni-lecture-room.jpg] Actually, as annoyed as I am with BT – 11 days without phone and broadband and counting – that’s far from the only reason I’ve been quiet. I’ve been to Berlin for NEXT Service Design [http:
editorial strategy
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/liveblogging-team.jpg] Well, this is a good quote [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/12-liveblogging-tips-for-journalists/s2/a550338/] : > “We’ve sort of evolved to this bizarre thing where people sit within newsrooms and cover breaking events from afar,” Tinworth
Blogging
Martin Couzins on modelling behaviour [http://itsdevelopmental.com/2012/modelling-behavior/]: > If you are the one who is trying to encourage others to try something out then a good place to start is to model the behavior ie actually use the tools and techniques you are helping others to adopt.
apple
Fabulous account of how, while all the tech press were busy writing comment pieces, one guy used the data to figure out where all the Apple device IDs [http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src/] that Antisec claimed to have stolen from the FBI actually came from: > I’d
Brighton
Hacks/Hackers Brighton are running a pop-up digital newsroom at the Mini Maker Faire in Brighton [http://www.makerfairebrighton.com] today, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival [http://2012.brightondigitalfestival.co.uk]. The results are going up on theHacks/Hackers Brighton Tumblr [http://hackshackersbrighton.tumblr.com] as they’re
Journalism
Sarah Lacy is outraged by PR behaviour [http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/24/no-feedgen-i-wont-publish-the-article-you-wrote-about-yourself-under-my-byline/] : > A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story, paid for
digital journalism
Rachel from journalism.co.uk was kind enough to interview me for a podcast on the fine and ancient art of liveblogging [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/08/24/podcast-real-time-reporting-liveblogging-lessons-for-digital-journalists/] , alongside such luminaries as Neil Macdonald and Josh Halliday of something called “The Guardian“, which is some sort of
Journalism
Interesting list of long-form journalism projects [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/eight-examples-of-long-form-digital-content-projects/s2/a550100/] , compiled by Rachel McAthy at journalism.co.uk
advertising
Harry Marks on the high-profile, high traffic technology blogs [http://curiousrat.com/home/2012/8/15/curious-rat-20.html]: > Business Insider, CNet, ZDNet, eWeek, Gizmodo, and the rest (there really are too many to name) aren’t news organizations, they’re the online equivalents of 24-hour cable news noise networks
feeds
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/08/in-my-pocket-ipad-2720.html] In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In
