Journalists
Posts about journalists and the way they work.
21st Century Work Experience for Aspiring Journos Paid Members Public
I hope you’ll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus team’s blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but I’m just loving that they’ve been allowing their work experience teenager to blog for
Devolving Ownership for Better Blogging Paid Members Public
Now, that’s 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
Entitlement, Page Views and Content Atomisation Paid Members Public
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 – people have to buy the whole package, and it’s hard to determine what they read and what they don’t. (Market research
4 Steps to Social Media Heaven Paid Members Public
There is, I think, a tendency for journalists to over-complicate social media and how they talk about it. Somehow they makes something which is fundamentally 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_
Media Vacuums Will Be Filled Paid Members Public
Time Out‘s Big Smoke blog makes [a valid point about London blogging](http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/blog/7685/Why_are_London-s_best_bloggers_from_south_of_the_river.html): > However, if we are looking at north vs south, one thing stands out: when it comes to
Journalism Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Camp: Live Paid Members Public
Today, in Birmingham, a whole group of journalists is meeting, discussing new journalism models. You can follow proceedings [live on the Online Journalism Blog](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/05/08/jeecamp09-live-coverage/). Other coverage is being aggregated on [the JeeCamp site](http://journalismenterprise.com/jeecamp/).
Are Features Editors Doomed? Paid Members Public
More frightening thoughts for print journalists [http://www.yelvington.com/obsolete-jobs-wire-editor-features-editor]: > For print newspapers to continue to exist at all, their production must become radically more efficient, and for journalism to thrive, energies and efforts must be redirected at digital media and new products. > If you are a
Jeff Jarvis: Advice for specialist journalists Paid Members Public
Joanna Geary posted this on her blog [http://www.joannageary.com/2009/03/15/jeff-jarvis-at-sxsw-journalists-must-change-the-relationship-they-have-with-the-public/] a month back, but I’ve only just found it in my feedreader. It’s worth reposting: [Jeff Jarvis at SXSW: Advice to UK regional journalists](http://vimeo.com/3662605) from [Joanna Geary](http://vimeo.
