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 [...]
The modern journalist’s role is not merely to report news, but to filter and distil masses of information that matters to the public and present it so they can act on it. And reporters have to realise that supposedly independent government officials will always try to keep data secret where it might cause a negative [...]
I’m moved to blog about reporting, seeking answers and transparency.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
What is an online community, how do you build a site or service to cater for one and how do journalists work to become relevant in one? These are the questions students on the MA journalism programme at City University in London are considering (I teach magazine journalism students there). The students have to identify [...]
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 Blogging, Journalism, 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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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 Blogging, Journalism, 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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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 [...]
Also filed in Education, Journalism, newspapers, paidcontent
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Tagged B2B, businessmodels, cityuniversity, CMPi, educations, Emap, George Brock, Google, Journalism, Magazines, newspapers, paidcontent, paywalls, UBM
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