Journalism
It’s good to see journalism school books and primers finally being updated to reflect the new challenges and opportunities of our age. A good example of this is a book which arrived in my mail box just before Christmas: Now, it must be said that it arrived in my
Journalism
Struggling to get your entire news organisation enthusiastic about the possibilities inherent in big data sets? Texas Tribune has the answer. I can’t recall just how many times the terms "data journalism" or "computer assisted reporting (CAR)" have elicited big yawns from other journalists. It
Journalism
Here's a few links I've been thinking about recently (and had open in my web browser for ages). Obviously I need to find a new bookmarking site to my liking, after Delicious got all pearshaped I've been unable to make up my mind about
Journalism
Dismayed with the local coverage of their recent bread blockade, Norwegian farmers tried to block regional Sunnmörsposten from distributing today's newspaper. Around 3am this morning farmers tried to block the entrances to Sunnmörsposten's printing plant with their tractors. "We are blocking the newspaper distribution to
Journalism
The Breivik-trial has taken live-coverage to a new level, but Norwegians are divided on whether it is a scandal or a blessing the testimony and examination of the mass mass murderer cannot be broadcasted. In the internet age, don’t we have a right to go to directly to the
Journalism
The bad thing about changing deeply set habits and patterns of reactions? It may make you realise how unsustainable your lifestyle has been. In 2011, I chose one of the hardest new year resolutions ever – to change deeply set patterns of behaviour and reactions – and for the most part I
Journalism
Amid a flurry of privacy breaches and proposed spy laws, has storing your contact book in a digital format simply become untenable if you have sources you desperatly need to protect? This question has been on my mind repeatedly over the last two weeks, following news about new spy laws
Journalism
Crisis reporting is set to become integral part of a three year bachelor degree in journalism, if plans to revise the degree’s curriculum go ahead. - Today you can go through a three years journalism degree without receiving any training in how to cover terror and catastrophes, Trond Idaas,
Journalism
You have to wonder at the state of our industry when the story about how a newspaper just employed a 57-year-old news reporter made headline news yesterday. And no, I'm not thinking that the news site E24.no was wrong to run it, which it did under the
Journalism
I just came across this brilliant post by DigiDave on how various types of journalists see themselves and others. Lots of food four thought and laughs in this image:
Journalism
With all the hullabaloo over content farms, Google, and whether Huffington Post really is a content farm, as of late, two contrary perspectives struck me last week. First, I attended Robert Picard's talk on media business models, as mentioned here. What I didn't mention was some
Epistemology
"Oh, I don't read HER. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she makes me think too much," a journalist friend told me back when I had just graduated from City. He'd been in news