Wednesday, December 7, 2011
There is a grim certainty that the existence of local and regional newspapers are under threat in the UK and other developed economies. There are no shortage of articles from commentators saying this is generally a bad thing. Northcliffe’s East Kent Gazette is the latest in a long line of closures. But what are the [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
This should pose a good teaser for any working reporter and news editor who uses percentages of chance on a day-to-day basis. If a woman is given a positive screening result after a mammogram, which is bad, what is the probability that she does not have cancer? Answer: 91 percent. Why is this? Cambridge University professor David [...]
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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 [...]
In this digital media, journalism and always-on bubble that we live in – if you’re reading this blog you’re probably in that category – we are weird. Speaking at the BBC’s Social Media Summit on Friday at White City (or “White Stadt” as Google Maps puzzlingly and Germanically translates it) BBC Global News head honcho [...]
I’m moved to blog about reporting, seeking answers and transparency.
Friday, February 18, 2011
As much as I enjoy the media jungle and talking about digital media for a living, there are times when it’s worth watching the work of journalists who work in genuine life and death situations. One such is Vaughan Smith, founder of the Frontline Club (where I worked very happily during 2010). Vaughan has been [...]
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 [...]
Friday, December 31, 2010
I can’t help feeling that Delicious is one of the many services that Yahoo forgot that it owned and couldn’t see a way for it to integrate with its ad-supported news’n’content’n’stuff model. But the semantically-tagged fat lady has yet to sing for the bookmarking service. Right now, we know Yahoo doesn’t want Delicious any more. [...]
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 [...]
