newsletters
Lessons from Newsletter-First Publications
What can publishers learn about newsletter strategy from independent businesses that grew newsletter first? Notes from a panel discussion.
liveblogging
The future of live journalism
What does live coverage of news look like in the third decade of the 21st century? Is liveblogging past its prime?
drawnalism
Open Data Camp 5: looking back
A few weeks ago, I did a weekend’s liveblogging at Open Data Camp [http://odcamp.org.uk] 5 in Belfast, alongside the team from Drawnalism. Matt has written the event up on the Drawnalism blog [https://drawnalism.com/2017/11/22/at-the-interface-of-open-data/], and I threw together a little video
City St George’s
Fake News - and how to fix it: a journalism debate at City University, London
Liveblogged notes from the “Fake News” event at City University, co-organised by The Media Society and the Student Publication Association. Prone to error, inaccuracy, horrible typos and screaming crimes against grammar and syntax. Post will be improved over the next 48 hours. Jonathan Hewett, our chair, isn’t keen on
Brilliant Noise
Joining the Dots
I’m spending today liveblogging Brilliant Noise’s Dots conference [http://brilliantnoise.com/dots/], as curated by the lovely Neil Perkin [http://neilperkin.typepad.com]. The posts will be going up on the Dots conference site, not here. I’ll add links to the posts here, as and when I
academic research
Journalistic liveblogging analysed: a Polis report
Some time ago I was interviewed by Karin O’Mahony [https://twitter.com/karinomahony] about liveblogging and its use in a journalistic context. The report was published a little over a month ago [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2014/05/02/report-launch-as-it-happens-how-live-news-blogs-work-and-their-future/#more-10920] , and I’ve finally had the
Blue Light Camp
Unconference liveblogging at BlueLightCamp
Liveblogging from Blue Light Camp 2014 with Matt Buck and Drawnalism
Journalism
Reddit as a journalistic liveblogging platform
This is a really interesting development: Reddit is working to facilitate journalistic liveblogging activity [http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/reddit-embraces-its-role-as-a-journalistic-entity-with-new-live-reporting-feature/] on the site. > [Reddit has…] become a place where new forms of journalism occur, such as the reporting on breaking news events like a shooting or the war
City St George’s
Liveblogging commuter misery
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2014/02/T7CSvIcTs7fvlQRr-3508.html] Ah, synchronicity. Today, I’m working with the newspaper and interactive MA students at City University on liveblogging. And there’s a tube strike. So, of course, some of them are liveblogging the tube strike [http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.
Blogging
Lightweight blogging and heavyweight beer
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/9175294333_a710c0b89c_o.jpg] Nice to see that someone else has found my lightweight mobile blogging kit [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/lightweight_liveblogging_kit.html] suggestsions useful. Billy Abbot will be live beer blogging with a
cameras
Lightweight Liveblogging Kit
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/light-liveblogging-kit.jpg] Monday’s Hacks/Hackers Brighton [http://www.meetup.com/Hacks-Hackers-Brighton/] was my opportunity to test-drive a lightweight liveblogging kit. I’m used to lugging around a MacBook Pro and a Canon DSLR with a few lenses for
leweb
LeWeb London Day Two
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/P6050247.jpg] Day two of LeWeb London is kicking off today. Freed of the nursery run, I’m here for the whole day. Liveblogging ahead…