Today I’m speaking at the Specialised Information Publishers’ Association’s UK conference on a breakout session on digital tools for editors and publishers, in a session with my erstwhile colleague Martin Stabe, now an interactive producer at FT.com. To sum it up very briefly, I was talking about curation, aggregation and the importance of transparency in [...]
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Hello there. Yes, it’s been a while, but I’ve been busy. TheMediaBriefing is taking up a lot of time and as I wrote here before it’s a very exciting project we’re building from the ground up. I intend to write more here about some of the interesting things we’re doing with content and technology, in [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
How do you get a job in journalism? Get a blog. Well, it may certainly help you, but I’ve just seen a panel of speakers at City University and that’s what they said. Josh Halliday, Dave Lee and Conrad Quilty-Harper told a room of students how they found gainful employment in journalism through their own [...]
Also filed in Journalism, Journalism skills, Journalism tools, Social Media, Work experience
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Tagged BBC, BBC World Service, Journalism, Martin Stabe, National Union of Journalists, Press Gazette, YouTube
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Image via Wikipedia A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people So says Andrew Marr, formerly the editor of The Independent, formerly the BBC’s political editor, now chief political interviewer and radio host at [...]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
I’ve been rather quiet in recent weeks and with good cause: I’ve been helping to build a new digital media business, Briefing Media Ltd, and its first site www.themediabriefing.com, which goes live today (Tuesday). I’m the editor and chief analyst – a title which when explained, does make sense – and I’m really excited to [...]
Journalists now invariably have to take part in web journalism and an increasing number of them only write for the web. But despite that, not all of them use hyperlinks - one of the main things that elevate digital journalism above and beyond its print counterpart by adding relevance, context, facts, proof and sometimes wit to an otherwise dry [...]
Also filed in Journalism, Journalism skills, Journalism tools, Magazines, newspapers, Regional newspapers
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Tagged Content management system, Jeff Jarvis, Journalism, Newspaper, regionals, thetimes, thetimes.co.uk
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Is there reason to be cheerful about the future of digital media? Answer: of course there is. But you wouldn’t think it sometimes, with stalling advertising rates, UK start-ups scaling down and the niggling feeling that the future is always somehow a couple of years away. So why not get some people together to talk [...]
Image via CrunchBase Being a busy person, with (thankfully) multiple clients and places to be, I don’t update this site as often as I’d like. I find time to write at least one substantive post a week and I write about the events and major things I attend, as a rule. Like lots of bloggers, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Today I’m speaking to journalism students at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds, where I graduated with a journalism degree a few years back. Here’s a flavour of what I’m telling them, with some links and media for anyone that decided to turn up in person… It seems odd to be [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’ve always been a fan of “the practice what you preach” maxim. After writing about it, speaking to its creator and watching its gradual but promising growth, I’ve signed up this site to the advertising platform Addiply. Those red boxes on the sidebar are available for text ads at £0.50 a week; [...]
