Journalists were still defending Facebook against their colleagues less than a year ago
I still don't get why so many journalists have been so easy on Facebook for so long.
Journalism
Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Five Up: some reading to start your day
Five good reads to kick off your week.
local journalism
Megan Lucero: Why do we need new models for news
Can we find a new model of collaborative journalism, working alongside existing local journalists, and the communities they serve?
drama
Press - a new BBC drama set in a newsroom - gets a trailer
Oh, no. The BBC is making a drama about national newspaper journalism…
solutions journalism
Solutions journalism: a possible antidote to news apathy and disengagement
A relentless stream of problem stories makes the world feel worse than it is, and makes people more susceptible to manipulation. Can solutions journalism reverse that?
Medium
Medium: destroyer of journalism
Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price.
news
Hyperactive reporting is a problem. Let’s fix it.
Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.
The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook
The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
apple news
Apple's acquisition of Texture, and what it might mean for the iOS news ecosystem
Apple has acquired a major US digital magazine subscription service. If you needed evidence it was serious about Apple News, this is it. But does this mean publishers should take Apple News more seriously?
culture
How does it feel to be a journalist from an NRA-supporting family?
This is a thought-provoking piece from a journalist who grew up in an NRA member family [https://medium.com/@kelliannejones/im-a-journalist-and-the-daughter-of-an-n-r-a-member-why-it-s-time-to-tell-my-story-9782ae97aad9] in the USA: > My father’s interest in guns began as a young man who saved up to buy 60 acres in the Maine wilderness where he could
AR
Augmented reality quietly augmenting mainstream news
In the short term, Augmented Reality has much more potential for journalistic use than VR. Virtual reality is time and attention intensive, and requires dedicated kit (even if it’s as cheap and simple as Google Cardboard). With AR finding its way into more phones, especially Apple devices, the tech
Blogging
Building trust in news through transparency
Ipsita Agarwal, writing back in the summer [https://medium.com/@ipsita/trust-in-news-3c9afc15d3a1]: > There is perhaps a concept to be experimented with where a news publisher builds a news literacy project containing explainers of how some of its best reporting was done — how was the information collected, verified, and presented;