Journalists
Posts about journalists and the way they work.
The Knee-Jerk Journalistic View of Bloggers Paid Members Public
Oh, don’t you love it when you open up your RSS reader, and find something that encapsulates an aspect of your life? Ladies & gentlemen, Mr Howard Owens: > Most of the bad bloggers tend to gravitate toward current affairs blogging. Unfortunately, political blogs are also the kind of
How Tools Can Define Digital Journalists Paid Members Public
Beyond that, I quite like the writing focus a “one thing at a time” device like the iPhone gives you. I can only have one application open at a time, so I’m not being distracted by e-mail, Twitter or anything else. This post is longer than my average blog
4 Things Journalists Can Learn from the Lacy/Zuckerberg Interview Paid Members Public
3. Do Your ResearchThis is something of corollary to the last one, but make sure you understand the audience as much as the background of the story. News doesn’t exist in an objective vacuum. It exists because it is of interest to the audience – and that has a profound
Sarah Lacy: Good in Print Does Not Mean Good on Stage Paid Members Public
Back in December, I was fairly scathing about Sarah Lacy’s interview with Digg’s Kevin Rose [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/12/le_web_3_kevin_rose_of_digg.html] at Le Web 3. [ deigning to comment on the Internet — nothing makes you look more clueless and out-of-touch than when
After Max Gogarty: Rethinking Mainstream Media Blogging Paid Members Public
The writer? Certainly. It seems clear that he jumped into this without really understanding what blogging is about – or, indeed, the nature of the audience he was writing for. And, frankly, that’s just bad journalism. Writing a blog post a bit like a humorous sidebar in a travel feature
