Best of the journalism blogs

This is a filtered mash-up of posts from the best blogs about journalism (also available as an RSS feed). If your blog or one you know of is not here and you think it should be, email john at journalism.co.uk. To be included (entirely at our discretion), the blog must be predominantly about journalism and/or add some genuine insight into the state of the profession and technological developments affecting it.

[Alfred Hermida] Video: Gina Trapani makes sense of Google Wave
I have a Google Wave account though I haven’t had the time to investigate its potential. At first glance, Google Wave can be bewildering, but it does seem to offer a strong platform for collaborati...
Posted 5 hours ago
[Ben Goldacre] Oh, that was quick
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 21 November 2009, The Guardian Once your medicines regulator decides it should change the side effects warnings on the patient information of a drug taken by millions of peop...
Posted 7 hours ago
[Bryan Murley] Lessons from last month’s Pacemaker
I spent some time talking to winners of last month's Pacemaker online awards to get their take on what makes a effective Web news outlet. If there was any consensus among these three student media ...
Posted 9 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Grenade victim Guy Smallman wins case
Photojournalist Guy Smallman has won his six-year fight for justice, according to fellow photographer Marc Vallee on Twitter, after being seriously injured by a stun grenade thrown by a Geneva poli...
Posted 13 hours ago
[Adam Westbook] Kodak Zi8: the tool to change video journalism?
Broadcast quality video cameras are only doing one thing: getting smaller. But the smallest one, the Mini-HD camera, has so far been largely shunned by professional video journalists, chiefly becau...
Posted 14 hours ago
[Adam Tinworth] NUJ Moving With The Times
Credit where credit's due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle earlier in the year.How so?NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has finally found his blogging mojo this month.The Annua...
Posted 17 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] NUJ Left accused of trying to take control of union's new London Photographers' Branch
Photographer David Hoffman, who has been active in the NUJ for more than 30 years, has accused the NUJ Left of trying to take over the union's newly formed London Photographers' Branch.Hoffman is o...
Posted 20 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Quote of the Day
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear in his speech to ADM today slams deregulation and corporate greed: "Trinity Mirror were not the only pigs caught with their snouts in the media trough, their heads...
Posted 21 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Follow NUJ ADM without going to Southport
You can follow the NUJ's ADM in Southport at this link http://www.nujadm.org.uk/.It includes live coverage of general secretary Jeremy Dear's speech at http://www.nujadm.org.uk/jeremy-dears-speech/...
Posted 21 hours ago
[Alexandre Gamela] A visit to the Telegraph Media Group | Uma visita ao Telegraph Media Group
This Wednesday some of MA students went to London for a short visit to the Telegraph Media Group headquarters to see how and where they work. It was, really interesting and we got to learn more abo...
Posted 21 hours ago
[FleetStreetBlues] The FT: 'We print fiction'
This is shocking. And it's bad news for journalism that more people don't think it is. A national newspaper has finally admitted, on-the-record, officially, that it makes stuff up. And no, it's not...
Posted 21 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Heather Brooke is 'Reformer of the Year'
In October, I mentioned that campaigning FoI journalist Heather Brooke was up for "Reformer of the Year" in the Reform think tank awards, and was being backed by blogger Guido Fawkes. Well, she's w...
Posted 22 hours ago
[Freelance Unbound] Building trust online: transparency and process journalism
Last in this series of videos and write-ups of Reed Business Information editorial development director Karl Schneider’s talk to journalism students at UCA Farnham. The discussion comes as a result...
Posted 22 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Sun pumps up Rompuy headline
The Sun couldn't wait for some pumpy before getting "Rompuy pumpy" into a headline about new EU President Herman Van Rompuy today.
Posted 22 hours ago
[Martin Belam] "Thierry Henry and the net" piece on Guardian PDA blog
Having gone on and on and on about comments on The Guardian site this week, I was a little bit nervous what might happen 'below the line' on a piece I wrote for the PDA Blog yesterday: "Thierry Hen...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Goodwin defends Watts against Dear
Bill Goodwin, an NUJ hero for risking jail rather than reveal his sources, has defended Journalist editor candidate Mark Watts.Watts was criticised by NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear on his blog ...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week
Times editor James Harding announcing at the Society of Editors' conference how the paper will charge users of its website: "We are involved in the fight of our lives to make sure we can put indepe...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Sans Serif] CAMPAIGN TO FREE LAXMAN CHOUDHURY
India’s war on Maoists, described by prime minister Manmohan Singh as the “gravest internal threat” facing the country has begun to ensnare journalists too. Laxman Choudhury, a stringer with the Or...
Posted 20 Nov 2009 at 7:22am
[FleetStreetBlues] First, they came for the reporters
As the pre-Christmas job cuts at magazines roll on - staff at IPC Media are the latest victims, but we're hearing worrying rumbles from elsewhere - the fall out from Media Week's move to online-onl...
Posted 20 Nov 2009 at 7:00am
[Alfred Hermida] BBC News website adds SEO friendly headlines
The BBC has made changes to its news website to make its headlines more SEO friendly. The headlines appearing on index pages are short and concise as usual, but clicking through to the story reveal...
Posted 20 Nov 2009 at 4:01am