Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
content
I just stumbled across this, and have planted it firmly in my āthings I didnāt know, but find really interestingā pile ā the WSJās old free content model [http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/my-two-cents-on-charging-for-content.html] : > But what WSJ.com used to do was to
Elevenses
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/IMG_0365.jpg] It takes quite a lot to pack 50-odd journalists into a small room, especially when there isnāt a free bar in the offing. But it happened today. We launched a new internalĀ initiativeĀ weāre
BBC
Finally ā BBC Video is becoming embeddable. Itās been a while in coming [because of rights issues](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/03/embedding_in.html),Ā apparently, and itās still only running on a limited scale ā the technology section only ā but itās a nice step
Blogs
Ah, nothing like a [rational, calm, provable headline](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html) to boost the publicās trust in journalists.Spotted in Waitrose last night. Debunked [not long after I got home](http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/). Noted: shallow, sensationalist reporting in a
Journalism
Fascinating. [Twitterfall](http://twitterfall.com/), a web application which tracks rising trends on Twitter, on the big screens in the Telegraphās newsroom: [](http:
Journalism
The other side of the NUJ debate is, of course, the fact that there are dramatic levels of job cuts happening in the industry. And, in some places, those are being fought. NUJ members in York are conducting lunchtime stoppages to [protest four job cuts at Newsquest York](http://www.
Blogging
I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another memberās post which stated that the member hadnāt come across any journalist who donāt believe that good journalism can happen online, and that
Blogging
Laura Oliver of Journalism.co.uk [http://www.journalism.co.uk/] has started a video conversation about the NUJ & social media over on video conversation service Seesmic: If youāve got a webcam, you can join in [http://seesmic.com/videos/DdZC1OmJRA].
Blogging
A few very quick response to the NUJ furore, as Iām back from holiday today, and a longer response will have to wait for me to clear my inbox at work. First up, thank you to everyone who got involved in the comments in the last few posts ā and
Blogging
One of the things I love about blogging, and digital journalism generally, is that you get a much clearer picture of who is reading your work, and how they get to your site. For instance this was in my referrer logs in my analytics package: So, the ā/exchange/ā and the
digital journalism
Karlās busy responding to comments on his post about subbing [http://fallingoffablog.typepad.com/falling_off_a_blog/2009/02/to-sub-or-not-to-sub.html] . But I think he saved the most important bit of his post for last: > One of the differences between the web and print media is that
digital journalism
I have something of a love/hate relationship with the National Union of Journalists. Love, because I believe in the principle of unions, and because the NUJ has done good things for some of my former colleagues [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/07/unfair_dismissa.html]. Hate, because I
