Journalism
Listening is greater than talking in journalism
In the wake of the shock election news from the US, a provocation for the future of journalism.
Journalists
Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Journalism
Members’ Reads: Activist versus Journalist
Five reads for members, on a looming Google threat, the ethics of leaking WhatsApp messages and the choice the industry needs to make.
Journalists
Six more journalists you should follow for International Women's Day
Yes, I do know it was yesterday. There's a good reason it's a day "late".
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Six journalists you should follow on International Women’s Day
Get more smart female voices in your Twitter timeline.
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Press - a new BBC drama set in a newsroom - gets a trailer
Oh, no. The BBC is making a drama about national newspaper journalism…
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Journalists supporting journalists
Journalism is such a strange business. Sometimes it seems parasitic and insensitive. And sometimes it touches you. This is just lovely: > The @BostonGlobe [https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe] sent us pizza to keep us going. Thanks friends. pic.twitter.com/kVH0TXddz9 [https://t.co/kVH0TXddz9] — Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) May
You're only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so.
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
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Don't be a journalism algorithm
Gizmodo‘s Michael Nunez delved into the lives of Facebook’s contract journalists [http://gizmodo.com/want-to-know-what-facebook-really-thinks-of-journalists-1773916117] in a well-shared piece: > Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes of a digital media content
Journalism
Journalism: not about you
Over the weekend, I headed down to Wiltshire for the kick-off meeting of a new project, and it was a wonderful experience. Over the last few years I’ve been doing a lot of training, and a fair bit of consulting, but I’ve had less and less opportunity to
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Twitter's head of news out after a year
Twitter’s head of news Vivian Schiller is stepping down [http://recode.net/2014/10/08/twitter-news-head-vivian-schiller-out/]: > Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec whom Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. Adam Sharp will now be in charge
Why journos love Twitter and fear Facebook
Twitter drives a tenth of the traffic that Facebook does to news sites. So why are journalists so obsessed with Twitter [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/11/why-do-journalists-prefer-twitter-to-facebook/] ? Well, there’s a good reason: > The reason, I think, is that Twitter is simply more useful
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Keep shovelling the content...
A Digiday post on volume of content per full-time staff member [http://www.digiday.com/publishers/whos-winning-at-volume-in-publishing/] has been doing the rounds today: > Digiday looked at several publications — from stalwarts like the New York Times and Forbes to upstarts like Buzzfeed and The Awl — to see how much content