Journalists
Some Coffee Reading
Some links for your enjoyment
birmingham mail
Hard News Journalism
I know the guy had been drinking, but this is really quite shocking: And we wonder why journalism is in trouble? (via MarkMedia [http://markmedia.blogs.com/markmedia/2008/11/how-journalism-works.html]) Update: the drunk journalist in question is Adam Smith of the Birmingham Mail [https://web.archive.org/web/
Journalism
Publishing: The Storm Clouds Gather
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/10163152@N03/2980979414/)Image by [TomRaven](http://www.flickr.com/photos/10163152@N03/2980979414/) via Flickr I’ve had my head down for the
Local News
Local Newspapers are Doomed
Or so said professor of journalism and Guardian blogger, Roy Greenslade [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/] on Today this morning. You can catch him predicting the death of local newspapers [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_7591000/7591404.stm] online still.
newspapers
Is Murdoch Right to Keep Investing in Newspapers?
Golly and, indeed, gosh. An e-mail arrives from one Kyle at The Atlantic, pointing me to the video they’ve produced following up an article about Rupert Murdoch and the future of newspapers – and providing a handy-dandy embed code for me. Now, given that I’m a subscriber to The
Journalists
Liveblogging 24 Hours of Regional Journalism
And this is her on her personal blog, [Headline & Deadlines](http://headlinesanddedlines.blogspot.com/2008/05/taking-ldp-live-for-day_11.html): > Tuesday May 13 will be the day I go grey, bite off all my nails, and possibly take up smoking again. For Tuesday is the day the LDP goes
Blogging
Newspaper History, Wordpress Exploits and Sarah Lacy
Good Lord, nearly 6.20pm and I still haven’t done a decent post today. And I was so sure it was going to be a quiet day today. Never mind, here are some hit and run things that caught my attention today: * Marc Andreessen is writing about the history
new york times
Free = More Pageviews = Money?
The New York Times has seen traffic go up on certain sections of its site since it dropped the paywall [http://www.jackiedanicki.com/index.php/2007/10/16/listen-up-fact-fans/]. Which is good. However, this only matters if those pageviews are translating into revenue somehow…
newspapers
The Telegraph's Shifting Video Sands
Major thumbs down for The Telegraph this morning. Yes, as mentioned in my earlier post [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/09/the_telegraph_gets_online_video.html] , they’ve made their new online videos [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/popup/ttv/tvnewsnow.jhtml] embeddable. That’s a good
brightcove
The Telegraph Gets Online Video
The Telegraph has launched its online video service this morning [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/uptoapoint/sept07/newsnow.htm], using a Brightcove [http://blog.brightcove.com/blog/2007/08/uks-leading-new.html] player. The content itself has ben produced by ITN On [http://itn.co.uk/on/]. And yes, they’
Journalism
How To Approach (Irish) Journalists
Damian Mulley has done some research on how Irish journalists would most like to be approached by PRs. [http://www.mulley.net/2007/05/01/when-contacting-irish-journalists-some-tips-from-journalists-themselves/] It’s pretty much applicable to journalists anywhere in the world, although I’m quite surprised not to see “in humble supplication” on the
Telegraph to Shut Out Google?
Is the Telegraph thinking of blocking Google from seeing its news [http://open.typepad.com/open/2007/04/telegraph_talks.html]? What a *really *terrible idea.