Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
alan johnston
Busy day today but, while rushing from meeting to meeting, I passed the BBCās Bush House, and saw this poster reminding the world of the plight of Alan Johnston [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2007/alan_johnston/default.stm]. A man who has been
bloggers
One of the ways that blogging complements traditional news is the way it can give you a real insight into the reality of peopleās experience. Take this story of a farm being submerged [http://www.farmingfriends.com/farm-flooded/] by the deluge of the last couple of days, which I
Blogging
Whatās the one thing that all blogging journalists should know?
bloggers
Kevin Marks Anderson (sorry, itās been a long old week) has a right old go at how bad some journalists are over on Strange Attractor in a piece titled Blogging is like sex [http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/06/08/blogging_is_like_sex.php]: > āThe bottom
bloggers
Robin Hamman has posted an interesting write-up of a BBCĀ College of Journalism debate on the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings [http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/05/debate_on_virgi.html]. And the issue of digital doorstepping that I was talking about at the time has re-emerged. Professor
Journalism
To be fair, a trade press story popped up on the *Press Gazette *Twitter feed [http://twitter.com/pressgazette] this morning > Centaur in 300k directory buy-up [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37789&c=1]: Centaur has acquired the Creative Handbook from Reed
Journalism
So, Press Gazette relaunched last week [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37638&c=1]. I actually saw the website in the first few hours, thanks to Martin Stabeās tweet [http://twitter.com/martinstabe/statuses/74541772], but Iāve been far too busy
Journalism
The National Union of Journalists has a Commission on Multi-Media Working [http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=1740], and not before time: > The NUJ has launched its Commission on Multi-Media Working at a conference at the unionās London headquarters. At a one-day event last Saturday (5/
Journalism
Should young journalists ignore print media and head straight for the internet? Yes, they should, says Atoosa Rubenstein, former editor of Seventeen in the US. At least, thatās what she said when she visited New York Universityās media students: [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/wewantmedia/node/527] >
Journalism
Damian Mulley has done some research on how Irish journalists would most like to be approached by PRs. [http://www.mulley.net/2007/05/01/when-contacting-irish-journalists-some-tips-from-journalists-themselves/] Itās pretty much applicable to journalists anywhere in the world, although Iām quite surprised not to see āin humble supplicationā on the
doorstepping
The Media Guardian had a look at the Digital Doorstepping issue [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2063111,00.html] on Monday. (Iām reliably informed [http://www.spaaace.com/cope] that doorstepping is the act of going house to house in serach of reaction, doorstopping is where
Is the Telegraph thinking of blocking Google from seeing its news [http://open.typepad.com/open/2007/04/telegraph_talks.html]? What a *really *terrible idea.