Journalism
I was astonished to read Newspapers: don't link to us yesterday, I really thought newspapers, several of those mentioned keen to come across as web-savy, had moved on from such selfdestructive policies. It's a reminder that we still need the excellent Link Manifesto penned by The
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Amid the current deluge of news about media layoffs I was deligheted to find Steve Smith back blogging, and that with some good advice to journalists and editors recently made redundant. Now, Steve - the former editor of Spokesman Review who resigned in protest against a new round of job
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Bente Kalsnes has an interesting post on the problems with "free" public data in Norway, which is often very far from free. She describes an environmental web project she was involved with for local newspaper group Edda Media: it stranded on a combination of lack of a coherent
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Getting the name right can be difficult, especially when it has 16 - or wait, 15 - parts. The story on how German press was led astray by a Wikipedia prankster yesterday, illustrates perfectly the pitfalls of modern fact-checking and Wikipedia dependency... full story over at Olav Anders' blog.
Blogging
Obviously, this is not a complete list. Usually I just save my favourite links to delicious, but, since this blog revolves around the many facets of how the communcations industry is changing, here's a few really interesting links to chew on: Eirikso: "Free, but not that free…
Journalism
For my part, the story of the plane that crashed into Hudson River started with this message on Twitter: @BreakingNewsOn is checking on reports that a plane has crashed in the Bronx, New York. More to come. More messages from @BreakingNewsOn, several others chip in, incl @davewiner and @HAX. I
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I had a zillion posts I wanted to blog this Christmas, but soon found I was in more of a contemplative mood once I got through all of the family business. So, inspired by Lloyd I thought I'd sum up the year, if not month-by-month in pictures, at
Future
While we're on the issue of change, and how difficult it is for media organisations, I also wanted to highlight some brilliant insights buried in a link towards the end of my last post. It has always been a puzzle to me why journalists of all people seem
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Great stuff from Robin Hamman: in preparation for his first day teaching on the MA International Journalism programme at City University, he asked his twitter and facebook followers to help him come up with an outline for the lecture. Here's the results from twitter. Makes me feel rather
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As I'm working from the seaside this week - and find myself struggling both to be indulgent enough to take walks along the seafront during office hours, while it's still light, and not to check my online news sources all the time, only concentrate on the
Blogging
If my last post was a bit gloomy, as Ashok was quick to point out, then this solution to current and future media job culls is anything but: Sixapart, the company behind blog platforms Movable Type and Typepad (which this blog is hosted on), has created its own Typepad Journalist
Free speech
Journalisten.no live streamed parts of the Freedom of Media Conference 2008, organised by the Institute of Journalism (IJ), this week. Two keynotes have been saved for posterity: See the moving appeal of former presidential candidate and FARC-hostage Ingrid Betancourt here. Jyllands-Posten's cultural editor, Flemming Rose, introduces a