Journalists

Posts about journalists and the way they work.

Twitter's head of news out after a year Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalists

Why journos love Twitter and fear Facebook Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Keep shovelling the content... Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Social media editors: condition terminal Members Public

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.

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community management

Why do so many publishers hate their journalists? Members Public

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…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism

Journalists: the problem isn't better, it's different Members Public

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

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Adam Tinworth
competition

The media: under occupation Members Public

[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

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Adam Tinworth
citizen journalism

Why comments matter: conversation Members Public

> 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

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commenters