Posts about journalists and the way they work.
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] .
alan johnston
Busy day today but, while rushing from meeting to meeting, I passed the BBC’s 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 people’s 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
Blogs
One of my former colleagues from Estates Gazette has started his own blog: Words Dept. [http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/] Mr Quinn always fell into the category of “annoyingly talented”, so I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with his brand, spanking new WordPress blog. It should be
Blogging
This is something of a token post. I’ve spent the day “facilitating” a workshop for all our bloggers within RBI, and I’m shattered. Never has my respect for those of you who do this sort of thing for a living been higher: it’s absolutely exhausting. However, it
Blogging
What’s the one thing that all blogging journalists should know?
bloggers
Kevin Marks Anderson (sorry, it’s 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]: > “The bottom
bloggers
Robin Hamman has posted an interesting write-up of a BBC 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
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 Stabe’s tweet [http://twitter.com/martinstabe/statuses/74541772], but I’ve been far too busy