Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
bloggers
All this begs the question: should we bother trying to get journalists blogging? Is there a value in it, if they find it hard to move beyond something that sits between traditional journalism and opinion pieces? Can’t we just leave journalists to do traditional journalism and use their work
Journalism
Ooops [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=38424&c=1]. Mind you, no-one said that the transition to the online world would be easy…
Blogging
Having taken an rather uninformative side-swipe at the corporate blogging life in my last post, I feel it’s only fair to point out some good stuff that’s been going on, too. Last Friday’s news of an outbreak of foot and mouth [http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/
Journalism
OK, yes, it’s a bit of a piss-take, done for the Computer Weekly MySpace page [http://www.myspace.com/computerweekly].
Journalism
Mark Payton [http://markpayton.wordpress.com/about/], digital editorial director of Haymarket [http://www.haymarket.com] is blogging at the aptly-named blog The Content Factory [http://markpayton.wordpress.com/]. Nice to see another guy charged with getting traditional magazines online dipping his toes into the blogging water…
Blogging
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/08/timscats.jpg] Now, this [blog post by Tim Relf](http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/2007/08/my-pet-subject.html) makes me happy. You see, as well as being one of our bloggers, he’s one of our journalists.
andrew gilligan
David Quinn, a journalist and former colleague based in Manchester, posted on his blog that last night’s Dispatches by Andrew Gilligan was actually trading off a three year old story [https://web.archive.org/web/20070811180450/http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2007/07/30/gilligan-dispatches-three-year-old-story-for-channel-4/] . And David should know,
digital doorstepping
Robin Hamman finds an interesting follow-up from one of the Virginia Tech Shootings witnesses [http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/07/virginia-tech-b.html] that he originally contacted. Well worth a read.
books
Interesting. One of our bloggers, Tim Relf [http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/] is a published author [http://www.timrelf.com/] and even has a Facebook group dedicated to his book [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2360956892&ref=mf] s. Cool.
david pogue
What happens to a journalist when he gets distracted by new media Flim-Flam like video (as demonstrated in my last post)? He gets his facts wrong [http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2007/07/nyt_and_fact_checking.html]. For shame, Mr Pogue. For shame.
david pogue
I really can’t decide if this piece of work by NYT journalist David Pogue is really clever and amusing, or just plain painful: Still, experimentation is good and it beats most of the “queuing for the iPhone” videos
alan johnston
Alan Johnston is free [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6267928.stm] .
