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 [...]
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 [...]
Filed in Blogging, Journalism, Journalism skills, Journalism tools, Social Media, Work experience
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Also tagged BBC, BBC World Service, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Filed in Blogging, Journalism, Journalism skills, Journalism tools, Magazines, newspapers, Regional newspapers
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Also tagged Content management system, Jeff Jarvis, Newspaper, regionals, thetimes, thetimes.co.uk
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It’s tough out there in the journalism job market. It always has been, but those entry-level openings are only available to people that really want them or have talents that newspapers, websites and magazines cannot do without. Naturally, many students and recent grads complete many weeks of work experience in newsrooms across the land. I [...]
Regional newspapers are either in – or just exiting – an economic crisis. The rules have changed, the ad revenue is disappearing to free online alternatives, news habits have changed and the audience is getting older. It shouldn’t be this hard, in theory: if the current thinking among intelligent journalists is that you need a [...]
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 Wikipedia There are no shortage of autobiographies, memoirs and tales from Fleet Street’s pomp, when hacks would gossip the day long and could navigate its countless boozers without getting wet in a rainstorm. Mostly, they describe a rapidly disappearing world of mass circulations, huge staff rosters and a narrow media culture compared to [...]
This is cross-posted from the Frontline Club’s Forum blog, which I write for and look after as part of my work there. It’s relevent to things I generally write about here so I thought I’d share. The pic is by talented Frontline member Chris King One way to boost newspaper revenues as print circulation and [...]
Filed in Companies, Frontline Club, Journalism, News Corporation, News International, newspapers, paidcontent, Revenue Tools
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Also tagged Advertising, News Corporation, newspapers, Times Newspapers
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Image via Wikipedia I get tired of bloggers and journalists (let’s face it, like me) who spend their time opining about the problems and challenges for journalists. Which is why I’m a fan of Adam Westbrook’s Future of News Group, which he founded to discuss the latest in practical solutions for the news biz instead [...]
