bundling
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-31-at-12.38.25.png] (This post will be updated as I find other interesting stuff to add.) Sarah Marshall has made her notes from the Sun+ briefing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/159Gqhwrv0r3vqydPSImZvLf5RDALrlM-xk3AyDDUnBs/mobilebasic?pli=1] public. Of
Journalism
Patrick Smith Storified the traditional media coverage of Thatcherās death [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2013-04-08/baroness-thatcher-dies-how-breaking-news-works] . The key take-away? Liveblogging is the main way the nationals are covering events like this. Itās odd, because a majority of journalisms still seem to regard liveblogging as a niche activity,
archives
An e-mail arrived from the FT yesterday, telling me all about their 125th anniversary, and with some lovely photos to run ā all of which IĀ had no intention of doing until: 1. My journalism MA students [http://www.interhacktives.com] seemed to think the whole think was quite cool, making
bloggers
Tomorrow, newspaper journalism loses another icon. Clark Kent, well-known reporter on that famous Metropolis organ The Daily Planetquits, to go into online journalism [http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/10/22/clark-kent-superman-comic-book-series/1648921/] . Thatās right, Superman is getting out of print journalism, and heās not the only
gonzo
Kevin Anderson pointed out [http://charman-anderson.com/2012/07/20/us-humourist-skewers-newspaper-industry/] this interview with humorist and newspaper columnist Dave Berry [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Newsletter/Columns/Syndicates--Dave-Barry-On-Winning-The-NSNC-Lifetime-Achievement-Award] , in which he makes a pretty damning assessment of the newspaper business: > So what role did newspapers play in the decline of
business models
Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/
daily mail
David Hepworth [http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/how-daily-mail-fishes-in-new.html] : > But I mostly hear about the Daily Mail from the people who disapprove of it most. Itās the daily drum beat of Twitter ā what have they gone and done now? These people canāt wait to tell
coffee
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/03/0f69fe2070e711e19e4a12313813ffc0_7.jpg] Itās Sunday, and Iām on holiday ā or as on holiday as an under-employed freelance consultant can be ā and so my thoughts turn to those most vital components of a relaxing Sunday: coffee and the
education
So, today the (allegedly) British media goes into its annual frenzy of exam-results celebration, in predictable style. First we have the pretty girls celebrating [http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/]. Tomorrow, inevitably, itāll be all about how A-levels have been dumbed down But thatās not whatās really irritating me.
broadcast
Fascinating post from Jon Snow on the whole Politics/Press/Broadcast issue [http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/britains-watergate-mea-culpa] thrown up by the phone-hacking saga: > The relationship between print and broadcasting has always been tense. We both resent and depend upon each other āout on the streetā. But these days,
Johann Hari
I suspect many of us labouring in the lessĀ glamorousĀ trenches of journalism will be feeling a little schadenfreude at the moment. First came the sudden departure of Melanie Phillips [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Phillips] from The Spectator, as explained by Prof Greenslade [http://www.guardian.co.uk/
BBC
My, oh, my. I canāt remember the last time a small journalism event with only 30 attendees created such a fuss. But todayās first leg of the BBC Social Media Summit has done just that, with particularly strident criticism from Jeff Jarvis [http://www.buzzmachine.com/] on the