Journalists
Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Time to Kick the Controversy Habit Paid Members Public
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 couldn’t help but find myself nodding vigorously in agreement with this piece by Umair Haque [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/12/why_
NUJ: Moving With The Times Paid Members Public
Credit where credit’s 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_
#1pound40 - The Ubiquity of Reporting Paid Members Public
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
This is a Bad Time to be a Journalist If... Paid Members Public
* You don’t like change – because change is all the industry has to offer you * You don’t have passion for your subject – because people with passion are already talking about your beat on the web, and* they’re more interesting* * You want to do the job you signed up
Publishing in the Flow Paid Members Public
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: “ideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations
Why Good Bloggers are Good For Print Paid Members Public
Here’s a piece of news [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/business/media/21atlantic.html] that’s 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
All We Have Left: Skill Paid Members Public
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 “Old Media is indispensable” faction, which is that
This is not a Rant Paid Members Public
I have one of those long, ranty blog posts building in me right now.This isn’t 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
