web publishing

Death of News Media Announced (Please Send Flowers) Members Public

To add to the gathering clouds, Brian [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/comments/clay_shirky_on_newspaper_doom/] linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): > The

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Mobile FT.com is a River of News Members Public

I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I don’t mean this in the broader sense of the conversational use of blogs so

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
design

Morning Coffee Reading - Speed Version Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/01/IMG_0186.jpg] Here’s some quick links for today, with minimal commentary – because I’m meant to be on holiday. 🙂- It’s more than just the internet that’s changing journalism, it’s [a perfect storm of

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism

Digital Journalism: The Time For Talk Is Done Members Public

I think – and I’ve heard many others echo the same thought back to me – that we have to stop talking about whether these tools are useful to journalists, and start using them to prove that they are. The danger we’re in right now is that many of the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism

The Death of the Home Page Members Public

A few weeks back, the BBC published a report about Jakob Nielsen [http://www.useit.com/]‘s latest findings about how web users operate [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm]. As Kristine pointed out, it had a dumb, dumb headline [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Publishing

Carnival of Journalism: The Reporting Instinct Members Public

You are going to deliver news to your readers via the internet. You break it on the web, you break it as soon as you have it, and you develop it online. And then, and only then, do you analyse, contextualise and develop it on paper. And you hope and

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
innovation

Static Stories must give way to Live News Members Public

The next mindshift change journalists need to go through is that they no longer have a finished product. The issue is never complete. The feature is never done. The news is always evolving. And this is hard for us old-school hacks. If you were to ask a group of people

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
deadlines

Your Site Doesn't Have a Homepage. Get Over It. Members Public

Old Media that’s got a little bit of New Media lip gloss on has a somewhat totemic attachment to the idea of “landing pages” – magic pages that will attract search traffic through their SEO gravity. These pages can actually be incredibly useful, as long as they fulfil a genuine

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
content