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 [...]
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 [...]
Update: Watch the whole video at this link (not embeddable, unfortunately). Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role of reporters to hold authority to account. All that’s according to George Brock, the recently-installed [...]
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
It’s not enough to write the news anymore, apparently you’ve got to talk it now as well. But that’s OK, because there are lots of ways to do it fast, for free and to a surprisingly good standard. Mashable has these handy tips for reporters on the go (via Sarah), but I thought I’d add [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
What’s the future of journalism? Throwing imaginary Italian food at walls and seeing what sticks? Well, it’s more complicated than that but spaghetti throwing was the metaphorical practice recommended by City University’s head of journalism George Brock at Journalism.co.uk’s News:Rewired conference. The former Times exec kicked off the day by calling for innovation and bravery [...]
When I went to journalism college in the middle of the last decade, the online element consisted of a few half days spent building static pages with outdated web design software. However, the course’s overall core skills were rigourously taught and I ended up in a reporting job immediately after graduating (albeit through somewhat unconvential [...]
