Journalism
Obesity of experience
What's the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated in experiential social media?
news:rewired
Zaina Erhaim: how to respect local journalists in crisis zones
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
Lockdown journalism digest: reporting, engaging and planning for the future
The Covid-19 lockdown is changing journalism. Here's a few signposts on that road.
apple
Apple's bad news: the confirmation bias magnet
The coverage of Apple's bad financial news tells us more about the pundits than the company itself.
news
Hyperactive reporting is a problem. Let’s fix it.
Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.
The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook
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)
Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value
Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
culture
How does it feel to be a journalist from an NRA-supporting family?
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
We need a conversation about the ethics of 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
Nice example of news video shot on a phone
[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
Journalistic liveblogging analysed: a Polis report
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
Reporting the US shutdown, US newspaper foreign story style
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