Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Journalism
I love Alison Gow’s blog, Headlines & Deadlines, because every few months she puts up a post that really nails an issue, and becomes essential reference for journalists from then on. Here’s another one [http://headlinesanddedlines.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-local-newspapers-court-and-council.html] : > I read a brief from
Journalism
Credit where credit’s due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/nuj_effing_blogs.html] earlier in the year. How so? - NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has finally found his blogging mojo [http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/2009_
cardiff
One of the Cardiff postgraduate students [http://laismw.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/shut-up-and-write/]: > In one blog post, [This is a Bad Time to be a Journalist If..](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/10/this_is_a_bad_time_to_be_a_journalist_if.html), he lists all
Journalism
> In March, Hearstclosed the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer [http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.html]newspaper and dumped 140 of us onto the street in the depths of the recession. [What happened next?](http://safetynetseattle.blogspot.com/2009/11/seven-months-later-whats-happened-to.html) For the majority, the story is pretty depressing. The
We get distracted by thinking about how the technology could enhance our existing reporting methods, or in building places that our readers can talk to each other, or in grafting a little bit of social stuff on top of our traditional work, without really facing up to the massive changes
Blogs
I’ve gone a bit quiet, haven’t I? Sorry about that, but I’ve been busy, holidaying and sick, but not necessarily in that order. One element of the busyness was this: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/11/IMG_1454.jpg] Yes, I was
X (Twitter)
A gagging order designed to target mainstream news titles has been undone by the concerted efforts of Twitter users.
Clay Shirky
Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. It is the law. * *In this case, it’s worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of [analysis of a newspaper in the US](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what it’s
Journalism
In amongst all the anguish and conflict and title closures and redundancies that are going on right now, aside from the newsroom battles and competing claims to be the defenders of true journalism, hidden in the battle between free and paywalled, there’s something to look forward to, a germ
humour
We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/greycardigan/2009/10/grey-cardigan-october-column/] to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things [http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2009/09/
community
Because, let’s face it, there’s no way you should be reading this on a Friday evening. 🙂 * Steve Yelvington has a very useful guide to seven things you need to bear in mind while developing communities [http://www.yelvington.com/content/09-20-2009/seven-keys-building-healthy-online-community] . * Joanna Geary breaks here blog silence
Journalism
Sometimes, a good graphic says all that needs to be said: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/pcuk-harris-poll-paid-content-reader-intentions-o.png] Loads more data on PaidContent UK [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-only-five-percent-of-readers-would-pay-for-online-news/] , plenty of good analysis on PDA [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/
