Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Journalists
At a meeting this morning, I told a prospective newbie blogger that intentional controversy was often a massively over-rated virtue. In the light of this, I couldnāt help but find myself nodding vigorously in agreement with this piece by Umair Haque [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/12/why_
Journalism
Credit where creditās due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/nuj_effing_blogs.html] earlier in the year. How so? - NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has finally found his blogging mojo [http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/2009_
We get distracted by thinking about how the technology could enhance our existing reporting methods, or in building places that our readers can talk to each other, or in grafting a little bit of social stuff on top of our traditional work, without really facing up to the massive changes
Journalists
* You donāt like change ā because change is all the industry has to offer you * You donāt have passion for your subject ā because people with passion are already talking about your beat on the web, and* theyāre more interesting* * You want to do the job you signed up
Journalists
Nice summary of the key concept so many people from traditional media are struggling to understand [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2009/10/we-applied-the-lens-of-advertising-interuptive-message-based-to-new-media-instead-we-should-apply-the-lens-of-new-medi.html] from Neil Perkin: > *Jason and Gareth talk about the flow of information over time: āideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations
bloggers
Hereās a piece of news [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/business/media/21atlantic.html] thatās all over the journalism blogosphere this afternoon, and which surprises me not at all: > Last week, though, the prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan used his forum on TheAtlantic.com to
Journalism
Interesting conclusion to a post about a story the traditional media [http://blog.thought-mesh.net/archives/2009/09/the_next_version.php] failed to cover: > I would also point out one thing which I am sure will be missed by the āOld Media is indispensableā faction, which is that
Journalism
I have one of those long, ranty blog posts building in me right now.This isnāt it. But if you want to know what it might be about, there are two things you should know:1. With the news that NetNewsWire, my RSS reader of choice, is [now syncing
estates gazette
I hope youāll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus teamās blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but Iām just loving that theyāve been allowing their work experience teenager to blog for
Blogging
Now, thatās a challenge for existing editorial teams, where the editor is used to being essentially a despotic ruler, with the desk heads as the high priests*. It requires the editor to stop being a director, but move more into a conductor role, where they make sure that the
content atomisation
I think, perhaps, that much of this sense of entitlement is rooted in the fact that magazine or newspaper packages conceal the popularity of each item within ā people have to buy the whole package, and itās hard to determine what they read and what they donāt. (Market research
Journalism
There is, I think, a tendency for journalists to over-complicate social media and how they talk about it. Somehow they makes something which isĀ fundamentallyĀ just about talking to people, well, hard. Look at the recent kerfuffle about the WSJ [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_
