Posts about journalists and the way they work.
Blogging
I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another member’s post which stated that the member hadn’t come across any journalist who don’t believe that good journalism can happen online, and that
Blogging
Laura Oliver of Journalism.co.uk [http://www.journalism.co.uk/] has started a video conversation about the NUJ & social media over on video conversation service Seesmic: If you’ve got a webcam, you can join in [http://seesmic.com/videos/DdZC1OmJRA].
Blogging
A few very quick response to the NUJ furore, as I’m back from holiday today, and a longer response will have to wait for me to clear my inbox at work. First up, thank you to everyone who got involved in the comments in the last few posts – and
Blogging
One of the things I love about blogging, and digital journalism generally, is that you get a much clearer picture of who is reading your work, and how they get to your site. For instance this was in my referrer logs in my analytics package: So, the “/exchange/” and the
digital journalism
Karl’s busy responding to comments on his post about subbing [http://fallingoffablog.typepad.com/falling_off_a_blog/2009/02/to-sub-or-not-to-sub.html] . But I think he saved the most important bit of his post for last: > One of the differences between the web and print media is that
digital journalism
I have something of a love/hate relationship with the National Union of Journalists. Love, because I believe in the principle of unions, and because the NUJ has done good things for some of my former colleagues [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/07/unfair_dismissa.html]. Hate, because I
Journalism
Roy Greenslade, writing on his *Guardian *blog, paints a far harsher picture of the future of the sub-editor [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/feb/13/national-newspapers-local-newspapers] than Karl did in his post [http://fallingoffablog.typepad.com/falling_off_a_blog/2009/02/the-web-production-desk.html] : > So I
Journalism
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/02/760199215_e5a5340870_b.jpg] Shock of the day: my boss, Mr Karl Schneider, editorial development director here at RBI, has actually posted to his blog!** He’s put up a post on the role of the production journalist as
Journalism
Roy Greenslade reports on some chilling research into the employment fate of redundant newspaper journalists in the US [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/feb/05/usa-newspapers]: > An American Journalism Review article asks: Is there life after newspapers? To that end, it conducted a survey of journalists
community care
Two years ago, there was some debate about the ethics of digital doorstepping [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/04/theres_no_doubt_that_the.html] – the practice of media diving into blogs or social networks looking for quotes and interviewees for their stories, particularity in the aftermath of a
Journalism
[![Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...]()](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter)Image via [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com)Something has happened in the last couple of weeks. [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com) has moved from something that is used by the social media cognoscenti amongst journalists, to something
Journalism
John Thompson over on journalism.co.uk has posted 10 things every journalist should know in 2009 [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/01/13/ten-things-every-journalist-should-know-in-2009/] . And he’s right on every one of them.
