Journalists
Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Journalists: Link To Win Paid Members Public
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] : >
I work on it, why should I read it? Paid Members Public
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
Journos and Scientists: observed… Paid Members Public
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
Journalists: a bunch of reactionaries Paid Members Public
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
While you're waiting for iOS 5 to drop... Paid Members Public
[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
Maybe I should have a caption competition... Paid Members Public
[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.
Learning to be a mutable journalist Paid Members Public
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
Why comments matter: conversation Paid 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