Posts about journalists and the way they work.
community management
The social media editor is dead [http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-social-media-editor]: > The fracas has left veterans of the social web feeling both vindicated and a little bemused. On the one hand, social media has become so central to a newsroom’s mission that dedicated functionaries may be obsolete.
Journalism
Roy Greenslade, talking about Trinity Mirror [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/aug/07/daily-mirror-digital-media] : > But nothing I have heard has changed my thinking. Kelly’s going is part of a pattern, confirming that a company that publishes newspapers and news websites has no respect for journalism…
competition
John L. Robinson spotsa great observation about journalism [http://johnlrobinson.com/2012/05/more-advice-for-newspapers-its-time-to-take-it/] byStijn Debrouwere [http://stdout.be/2012/05/04/fungible/]: > Because the entire point is that journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping
citizen journalism
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/reporting.jpg] Laurie Penny [http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13926]: > As more and more ordinary men, women and children without degrees in journalism acquire the skills and technology to broadcast text and video, the media has become another
commenters
> The purpose of writing on blogs, community sites like Comment is free, and much of social media is to start or further a conversation – not to share a few writerly pearls of wisdom. The great majority of writers on this site (and the New Statesman, for that matter) are
ethics
People have, on occasion, described TechCrunch (and ex-TechCrunch) writers are “bratty” in their writing style. MG Siegler does a pretty good job of proving the point in his complaints last week about the lack of credit he got from the Wall Street Journal [http://parislemon.com/post/18182094905/the-wall-street-journal-is-fucking-bullshit] : >
Journalism
John Robinson wants to know what we would do [http://johnlrobinson.com/2012/01/what-would-do/] if… > * Half of your employees — including those in the newsroom — don’t read the paper (except for their own stories)? Sadly, that’s been the case in pretty much every big magazine I’ve
Journalists
I am a journalist. I am married to a scientist. You can guess why I enjoyed this so much… [http://deepseanews.com/2011/10/scientists-journalists-a-field-guide/] > The journalist and the scientist are two species that inhabit the same ecosystem, but have very different behaviors. I have spent many years carefully
change management
Rosie Niven comments [http://rosieniven.co.uk/2011/10/24/bbc-staff-banned-from-having-rubbish-bins-near-their-desks-to-stop-them-being-territorial-and-defensive-telegraph/] on the BBC’s attempts to get its staff to mix it up a little: > I’ve been in a few newsrooms now and while I applaud the attempt to get staff out of their fiefdoms and mixing
burgers
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/10/3721f2083b87418982eb6acae0758875_7.jpg] …here are some links to distract you. - [Getting “digital first” right in the “newsroom”](http://www.yelvington.com/content/getting-digital-first-right-newsroom) – a nice, detailed look at why this is a more complex idea than many people
community care
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/09/6a011278fa639228a4014e8bb9b3cf970d.jpg] Just an ordinary day in the* Community Care* office, with the team wearing the regulation head temperature maintenance gear, as approved by occupational health…Oh, all right. They’re helping [publicise Woolly Hat day](http://www.communitycare.
employment
Since my job morphed from “head of blog development” to “editorial development manager” (which happened a while before the job title change), I’ve struggled to give a clear, one sentence description of what I do. The closest I’ve got is “figure out how changes in technology, journalism and
