Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
aggregation
A discussion else-blog about the use of aggregators to read blogs got me thinking about headline-writing. It’s something we devote a lot of time and brain-power to in the magazine world. It’s our first and best chance to “sell” the feature to the reader, and so it needs
attribution
Interesting entry in the blog: Anders Jacobsen’s blog: Journalist = bad blogger? [http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/08/26/journalist_bad_blogger.html] In essence, the blogger submitted some information to a journalist, but was uncredited in the article that was published. He asks the question: >
house prices
I’m looking at a pile of cuttings right now. We get these once or twice a day in the office and I’ve fallen behind in going through them for one reason or another. In particular, I’m looking at a page from last Monday, with cuttings from two
culture
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/images/angelinalara.html]One of my colleagues thoughtfully left a copy of The Sun is the office loo today. Inside was a quite marvellous article [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001290023-2003381282,,00.html] outlining how Lara Croft is destroying relationships because men lust after
BBC
As Eric has pointed out, I haven’t been very good at replying to comments of late, so I thought I’d better get to it, post haste. He said: > But what is an editorialist (the focus of the piece) that sets him or her above any random non-expert
BBC
From the BBC News report on the Kelly Inquiry [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3115243.stm]: > Lord Hutton said his task was to investigate the circumstances surrounding the scientist’s death, quickly and fairly. *He also revealed that Dr Kelly’s body had been found
Journalism
Here’s an interesting interview with the new head of the post-Blair (the other one) New York Times: MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The quiet American [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1006963,00.html]
Journalism
I’ve been engaging in debate [http://popone.innocence.com/archives/001015.html] (well, correction) with Bryant about the BBC/Kelly affair, leading to this follow-up post [http://popone.innocence.com/archives/001029.html].
Journalism
Eric, a thoroughly good chap from the other side of the pond, has directed a question at me. It’s in his post point5b: Scary Media Thought [http://www.livejournal.com/users/point5b/29927.html] on his Livejournal. In it he refers to an article [http://www.poorandstupid.com/2003_
Blogging
Tom Coates of plasticbag.org [http://www.plasticbag.org/] has dug up an old piece of journalism [http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/07/keith_waterhouse_on_weblogs_redux.shtml] by Keith Waterhouse telling people how to write opinion columns in newspapers. It’s amazing how much of it can
Journalism
The latest issue of the NUJ [http://www.nuj.org.uk]‘s magazine, the Journalist, has an article by my former boss, Mark Hayes. I used to work for him on a magazine called Hotel & Restaurant, until 1996. Late that year, the management gave me the choice of being
Journalism
You know that myth about hard-drinking journalists and long lunches? Well, I just had my first “wet” lunch in a very long time and I’ve been completely useless for much of the afternoon. Journalists just don’t work like that any more. Alas, alack.
