Journalism
Obesity of experience
What's the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated in experiential social media?
Journalism
What's the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated in experiential social media?
news:rewired
The contrast between the coverage of war in Syrai and Ukraine is shocking and stark, argues the news:rewired keynoter. Here's how we can do better.
lockdown
The Covid-19 lockdown is changing journalism. Here's a few signposts on that road.
apple
The coverage of Apple's bad financial news tells us more about the pundits than the company itself.
news
Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.
The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
X (Twitter)
Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
culture
This is a thought-provoking piece from a journalist who grew up in an NRA member family [https://medium.com/@kelliannejones/im-a-journalist-and-the-daughter-of-an-n-r-a-member-why-it-s-time-to-tell-my-story-9782ae97aad9] in the USA: > My father’s interest in guns began as a young man who saved up to buy 60 acres in the Maine wilderness where he could
digital doorstepping
I first wrote about digital doorstepping a decade ago [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/04/theres_no_doubt_that_the.html] . And the problem has only got worse: > I have dealt with 50+ journos online today. Two found my mobile number. This cunt found my house. I still
BBC
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/bbc-mobile.png] Here’s a nice example of a reporting video shot using a phone [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28190890] from Auntie Beeb. Note how he uses the phone’s mobility to give a sense of environment,
academic research
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
newspapers
How would US newspapers report the shutdown [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/30/potential_government_shutdown_how_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it.html] if it was happening in a different country? > Six years into his rule, Obama’s position can