Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
cms
One of the biggest projects Iāve been involved with here has gone live today. We relaunched the website for the Irish Medical Times [http://www.imt.ie/], a business paper for Irelandās doctors, this morning ā and itās all built around blog software. The whole of the content
FHM
We only deal with the most classy, stimulating business content here at RBI blogging HQ. From my lofty desk, overlooking stunning Sutton, glistening cosmopolitan metropolis of Surrey, I cast a careful eye over the blogging think meats we distribute through our official magazine blogs.And what could please me more
Journalism
My, my. Iām on studentsā reading lists now [http://jt326.blogspot.com/2008/01/readings-for-class-on-jan-24.html]. Whatever will my lecturer wife make of that? š
Journalism
I meant to link to a post on the Online Journalism Blog last week, discussing the issue of journalismĀ graduatesĀ having blogs [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/01/11/how-important-is-it-for-new-journalism-graduates-to-have-their-own-blog/] . Iām glad I didnāt now, because the discussion in the comments has really added value to the debate. Iā
Blogging
Somethingās been bothering me for a while. Itās been wriggling around in my head as I go through the āwhat is bloggingā spiel for the umpteenth time to one of our journalists. It irritates me late at night, when I should be thinking about more important things like
Blogging
Hereās a thought. This way of describing one key element of blogging to journalists just popped into my head: > āRead the blog post. If you know the writer in person, can you hear them saying it? If not, theyāre not blogging yet.ā Good? Bad? Indifferent? One of
digital journalism
Mindy McAdams has written a brilliant post over on Teaching Online Journalism. Anyone who is involved in modern journalism should read it: > So hereās an insane, heretical idea for change. The goal is to make everyone in your community start talking about your newspaper and your Web site.
bloggers
If you visit the home page of this blog, rather than just sucking up my fine journoblogging through your friendly, neighbourhood RSS reader, then youāll have noticed this little widget appearing in the top right. [JournalismDaily](http://journalismdaily.com/) is now using the [SocialRank](http://socialrank.com/) tech to
Blogging
Kristine [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2007/12/swedish-link-lo.html]: > ā¦ I work at the intersection of social media and mainstream media (MSM) ā actually, I believe this is where all journalists work these days, whether theyāre conscious, or approve of it or not ā¦ Sing it, sister!
Journalism
Martin Stabe has used Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/] to gather lessons learnt in 2007 from various new media hacks [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/12/20/what-i-learned-from-2007/] . I appear to be the only one who sent in a really flippant answer. Ah, well. Be true to your
Journalism
I had the chance to finally read the whole report last night and, while I wonāt get the chance to write up my reactions until tomorrow night at the earliest, on the whole, Iām impressed. Itās far from perfect, and thereās much to quibble about, but
Journalism
The NUJās Shaping the Future report on multi-media working [http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=605] is out this morning. Martin Stabe has some intial thoughts [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/12/06/the-nuj-commission-on-multimedia-working-reading-the-report/] about it over on the Press Gazette blog. The NUJ has