Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
accuracy
Iāve not really felt inspired to comment on the whole āshould journalists check facts [http://charman-anderson.com/2012/01/13/a-healthy-debate-about-he-said-she-said-journalism/] ā furore, because, really, me rolling my eyes doesnāt make for great blogging. But I couldnāt resist linking to this [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/
change management
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/01/adur-sunset.jpg] My post on paywalls yesterday garnered a good amount of interest. Kevin Anderson suggests that journalists need to be a little more self-critical about the value of their own work [http://charman-anderson.com/2012/01/09/unique-content-part-of-metered-paywall-success/
Journalism
The Macalope [http://www.macworld.com/article/164663/2012/01/2012_predictions_macworlds_annual_forecast_of_the_year_ahead.html] : > And then weāll go through the whole āalternate-year Apple device disappoints spec-crazy nimrodsā rigamarole, as if the entire class of technology pundits suffered blows to the head as
aggregation
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/mediapanel3.jpg] A panel discussion the changes in media wrought by the latest technology, moderated by Thomas Crampton [http://www.thomascrampton.com]. Not surprisingly,Ā Paul-FranƧois Fournier, Executive Vice President, Orange Technocentre defines media as, essentially, businesses that produce content,
data
Greg Hadfield, quoted by Sarah Marshall on journalism.co.uk [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/12/02/how-open-data-has-changed-journalism/] : > An open-data tsunami will mean that more journalism will be about interpreting ā and putting into context ā data that is open to all, at least in its rawest, unrefined form. To
flightglobal
I posted this on Twitter last week, but I think itās worth reposting here. Hereās how FlightGlobal moves a whole chunk of its publishing operations to air shows, so they can maximise their coverage: [via Runway Girl [http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2011/10/video-how-flightglobal-covers.html] ]
employment
Since my job morphed from āhead of blog developmentā to āeditorial development managerā (which happened a while before the job title change), Iāve struggled to give a clear, one sentence description of what I do. The closest Iāve got is āfigure out how changes in technology, journalism and
ethics
Warning: Liveblogging ā error, omission and appalling grammar likely Claire Wardle Claire was an academic in Cardiff ā deputy ethics officer ā lots of conflict over journalist wanting to do illegal things in a āgood causeā. On to the BBC College ā where there were fights about contacting people and using materials from the
ethics
So, Mr Hari has admitted to his crimes [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/johann-hari-admits-plagiarism-and-returns-orwell-prize/s2/a546013/] , and is slinking away for retraining training in journalism. Iāve made no secret of that fact that I think his behaviour fell well below the standards we should expect of journalists, and
Journalism
Can you tweet faster than an earthquake travels? Twitter thinks so: Hereās Twitter traffic mentioning earthquakes in the 12 minutes after the quake: I wonder how many news outlets had information up on their site within 12 minutes?
Hacks/Hackers London has started - a new gathering for people interested in pushing forwards digital journalism.
digital journalism
Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47752&c=1] appeared on the Press Gazette site. It wasnāt depressing because of the headline finding: > The top four most important skills cited by editors were: writing,