Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Journalism
The National Union of Journalists has a Commission on Multi-Media Working [http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=1740], and not before time: > The NUJ has launched its Commission on Multi-Media Working at a conference at the unionās London headquarters. At a one-day event last Saturday (5/
Journalism
Damian Mulley has done some research on how Irish journalists would most like to be approached by PRs. [http://www.mulley.net/2007/05/01/when-contacting-irish-journalists-some-tips-from-journalists-themselves/] Itās pretty much applicable to journalists anywhere in the world, although Iām quite surprised not to see āin humble supplicationā on the
doorstepping
The Media Guardian had a look at the Digital Doorstepping issue [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2063111,00.html] on Monday. (Iām reliably informed [http://www.spaaace.com/cope] that doorstepping is the act of going house to house in serach of reaction, doorstopping is where
community
Thereās no doubt that the shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6560685.stm] in the US was a horrifying event. Thereās equally no doubt that the few seconds of shaky mobile phone footage of the shootings was
alan johnston
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2007/alan_johnston/default.stm]BBC Journalist Alan Johnston has now been missing for over a month [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2007/alan_johnston/default.stm]. He is believed to have been kidnapped on
Blogging
Martin Stabe has some good advice for journalism schools: [http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/04/11/hey-j-schools-teach-before-you-unleash/] > Journalism schools need to teach their students that blogs are internet publications like any other. They are public on the internet and can be read by anyone in the world with
Blogging
We just hit a rather pleasing milestone with blogging here at RBI-UK: Iām looking forward to indoctrinating the next 100 journalists into the ways of conversational mediaā¦
Journalism
Yāknow, every time I go to the US, Iām shocked by the TV news. Ours isnāt great, but reallyā¦ [What We Call the News](http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/jibjab/id/583911/jokeid/130841) | [Send To Friends](http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox_sendtofriend.aspx?id=
Blogging
Last Friday was not a good day to be milling around at a conference with a badge saying āReed Businessā on it. Why? Because people kept asking me about this hard hitting post by Seth Godin [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/spammers_and_pr.html]. Iād
bloggers
What did she have to say? A lot of the usual stuff, but it was nice to hear it confirmed from the horseās mouth, as it where. For example, she made the point that having a blog for your website will drive more links to your site from other
Journalists
So, we have a little video-making contest on the go here at RBI. The Flight Group [http://www.flightglobal.com/Home/Default.aspx] have put up this little effort of two of its journalists flying a 737-NG flight simualtor, which is interesting viewing: And the truly masochistic amongst you might
Journalism
Jeff Jarvis takes a walk around the new Telegraph newsroom [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/03/12/in-the-telegraph-newsroom/]. The results are good readinā.
