digital journalism
GuardianWitness: an interview with Joanna Geary
An interview with Guardian digital development editor Joanna Geary about the newspaper’s new collaboration platform.
citizen journalism
Guardian launches Citizen Journalism platform: Guardian Witness
Joanna Geary [http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2013/apr/16/introducing-guardianwitness-platform-content-youve-created?CMP=twt_gu] : > The GuardianWitness platform, and supporting iPhone and Android apps will help us to carry on this tradition. It will allow you to tell your story – by desktop or mobile – by submitting pictures, videos
The Guardian Unlikes Facebook
The Guardian has killed its Facebook social reader [http://gigaom.com/2012/12/13/guardian-kills-its-facebook-social-reader-regains-control-over-its-content/] – which is interesting, given that it appeared to be something of a political hot potato inside the company, with some people very keen to have control of it. Martin Belam tells the story of its
mobile
The Guardian responds - to your screen
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/responsive-guardian.jpg] The Guardian’s gone public with its responsive beta site [http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/developer-blog/2012/oct/18/responsive-design-guardian-introduction] (which should scale beautifully to whatever screen size you’re using). This is what the future
Hacks/Hackers Brighton: a more Responsive Guardian
I missed the first speaker – Sarah captured some notes in a Google Doc [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1gUKxRj6kVhtbKIp_VrSfabN4E9lC9zr5cTVvgA6NlQo] Andy Hume, The Guardian The Guardian pushes its content to multiple channels. It has the highest largest combined monthly digital and print readership of British quality titles. The
change management
Joanna Geary: So, that online community stuff - it's all sorted now?
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/jo-geary-sarah-marshall.jpg] * Liveblog of a talk given by Jo at Hacks/Hackers Brighton in September 2012* ## [Joanna Geary](http://www.joannageary.com "Joanna Geary")In 2010, the last national reporter picked up a Twitter account, and we’
corporate culture
The work/life infusion
Dan Catt on his reasons for leaving The Guardian [http://revdancatt.com/2012/07/26/leaving-the-guardian-creativity-vs-mild-depression-the-quantified-self-and-running/] : > It was the crushing lack of scope for creativity within the projects that was the problem. They fell very much into the category of ‘move this over here, put that there, add something
archives
Your archive content is valuable
What’s the value in archive content? More than you might think. Too many publishing businesses are caught up in the idea of the now, and they miss the value of the then. A huge amount of archive and historical content is shared around the blogsphere and social media every
BBC
Making News Mobile - #newsrw
Live-blogged notes of a panel discussion about making news work on smartphones
BBC
From Data to Story - #newsrw
*Four visions of data journalism, moderated by Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. * Bella Hurrell, specials editor on the BBC News website The BBC specials team produces a whole range of added-value content for the BBC website. They’re becoming part of a visual journalism team at the BBC. Data journalism
analytics
Sustainably profitable digital publishing - #newsrw
Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired byKathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. Lucia Adams, The Times – When they launched a paywall, people predicted a disaster. But it hasn’t turned out that way, and now all the newspapers are trying to solve the same problem. The big change is the
aggregation
Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories