Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
comics
The tyranny of the inverted pyramid in most journalistsā minds right now is one of my recurring bugbears. Itās a product of print, and of the working techniques needed to get words onto paper in a timely fashion. But people canāt seem to move beyond it in the
data journalism
Kevin Anderson: > Yes, weāre now going to have to suffer through lots of ill-informed speculation from columnists. Brace yourself yet again as they take out their favourite axe from the kitchen cupboard and grind away on it just a bit more until the head is gone and theyā
emotion
Bit off my normal patch, but a fascinating read: > Within the swathe of responsible reportage and post analysis, trying to convey an hour and a half of fear, human suffering and ābeing thereā is something journalism in its present form attempts, partially succeeds (to degrees) and also struggles to
apple
For the first time in a little while, I caught the train from Shoreham-by-Sea to London for a day at Procter Street. That gave me the chance to catch up on my RSS feeds, and hereās a few things of note: * The Smartphone: our new tool for sharing experiences
david cameron
Iām loathe to join the general mob of bloggers posting about every little twist and turn of the phone-hacking scandal, and the closure of the News of the Screws World. That market niche is filled sufficiently. Iām more interested in trying to discern the long-term consequences of whatā
Journalism
Blogging
OK. Iām irritated now. Perhaps it was inevitable that the media response to the launch of Huffington Post UK [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/] todayĀ would be dominated by the fact that the majority of the content contributors donāt get paid [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/
ethics
Phillips, Hari, News of the World. Not been a great week or so for journalism, has it? Five thoughts, and then Iām stepping away from this for a while: * You really donāt need 1000 words from me on this topic, because every other journalism blogger will already have
Blogging
Tracey Ullman, of all people, perfectly catches the media dynamic of our age [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracey-ullman/arianna-and-me_b_889612.html?ir=UK] in (inevitably) HuffPo UK: > When King George V died, his time of death was withheld so that theThe Times could break the news rather than
attribution
Essential reading for journalists this morning: John Gruber on the subtleties of online attribution [http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/attribution_and_credit]: > Not even including a link to the source of a story is dishonest. My problem with Friedās āan Apple enthusiast siteā attribution is more nuanced. That
entrepeneurship
Some [tips for reluctantlyĀ entrepreneurialĀ science journalists](http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/tips-for-the-reluctantly-entrepreneurial-science-journalist/). Itās officially weird being quoted speaking at [a conference](http://www.wcsj2011.org/) you werenāt actually at.Thereās a story here, and itās not very flattering about me, but Iāll
data
If Tuesdayās Mobile Strategies Conference was unchallenging [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/06/mobile_media_strategies_-_early_thoughts.html] at times, Monday nightās Hacks/Hackers London event [http://meetuplondon.hackshackers.com/events/19792711/] was the exact opposite ā brain-bending and stretching even for those of us on
