Post about, inspired by, or featuring The Guardian’s Martin Belam. There’s probably a Doctor Who reference somewhere.
digital journalism
The last couple of years of campaigning – especially the last UK general election, the Scottish referendum with its “cyber-nats”, the Brexit vote and the Trump election – have made it plain to many that there’s a new set of elements at work in the public discourse – and they’re digitally-driven.
alt right media
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
cuts
A new boss at The Mirror is sweeping away the digital innovations of his predecessor. Not invented here syndrome at work…
aggregation
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/03/aggregated-rubbish.jpg] A Gawker piece by James King is doing the rounds today, highlighting the “ripping off” done by the Daily Mail Online [http://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-daily-mail-online-1689453286] : > Yes, most outlets regularly aggregate other publications’ work in the
Blogging
Martin Belam [http://martinbelam.com/2014/hello-world-slight-return/]: > And despite the die-hard afficianados, RSS is no longer a key content distribution channel. Of course, with some amusement, I read this in my RSS reader of choice [http://reederapp.com]. He’s right in that RSS never became a mainstream means
business strategy
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/ampp3d-3427.html] When I first heard about Trinity Mirror’s Us vs th3m [http://usvsth3m.com], I rolled my eyes. Did the UK really need another Buzzfeed clone? Were our publishers incapable of innovating rather than jumping on yet another bandwagon?
Martin Belam
Martin Belam pretended to be a ghost on twitter – and discovered the misogyny lurking in our political debate [http://martinbelam.com/2013/bbcextraghost/]: > Then I announced that the next guest was going to be Emmeline Pankhurst, the first time it had featured a woman. Within a couple of minutes