BBC
From his column in The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8116584/So-journalists-at-the-BBC-went-on-strike-Thats-news-to-me.html] **, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: > I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and
NUJ
I finding it deeply worrying that the police are still doing this kind of thing [http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Photographer_forced_to_delete_images_news_300635.html] : > The [National Union of Journalists](http://www.nuj.org.uk/ "National Union of Journalists") (NUJ) has hit out
Journalism
Credit where credit’s due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/nuj_effing_blogs.html] earlier in the year. How so? - NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has finally found his blogging mojo [http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/2009_
humour
We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/greycardigan/2009/10/grey-cardigan-october-column/] to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things [http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2009/09/
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isn’t social, as someone in the crowd pointed out.Some discussion
Blogging
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian.jpg) Looks like the “[effing blogs](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/nuj_effing_blogs.html)
Journalism
The other side of the NUJ debate is, of course, the fact that there are dramatic levels of job cuts happening in the industry. And, in some places, those are being fought. NUJ members in York are conducting lunchtime stoppages to [protest four job cuts at Newsquest York](http://www.
Blogging
I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another member’s post which stated that the member hadn’t come across any journalist who don’t believe that good journalism can happen online, and that
Blogging
Laura Oliver of Journalism.co.uk [http://www.journalism.co.uk/] has started a video conversation about the NUJ & social media over on video conversation service Seesmic: If you’ve got a webcam, you can join in [http://seesmic.com/videos/DdZC1OmJRA].
Blogging
A few very quick response to the NUJ furore, as I’m back from holiday today, and a longer response will have to wait for me to clear my inbox at work. First up, thank you to everyone who got involved in the comments in the last few posts – and
Blogging
One of the things I love about blogging, and digital journalism generally, is that you get a much clearer picture of who is reading your work, and how they get to your site. For instance this was in my referrer logs in my analytics package: So, the “/exchange/” and the
digital journalism
I have something of a love/hate relationship with the National Union of Journalists. Love, because I believe in the principle of unions, and because the NUJ has done good things for some of my former colleagues [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/07/unfair_dismissa.html]. Hate, because I
