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.

[Paul Bradshaw] Parliamentary website TheyWorkForYou launches redesign
MySociety, the non-profit organisation led by Tom Steinberg, has redesigned their TheyWorkforYou.com website with data about UK Parliamentary politics. The site provides easily accessible records o...
Posted 4 hours ago
[Jeff Jarvis] A map to where?
The UK’s Independent has attempted to map the discussion about the future of newspapers. I’m not sure I get the benefit of the form, but give it a whirl:
Posted 5 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] NUJ in plea to free Gambian journalists
The NUJ called today for the release of seven journalists held in Gambia, including leaders of the country's journalists' union, who are charged with sedition.It has joined with Amnesty Internation...
Posted 5 hours ago
[Jeff Jarvis] Politics makes….
When she pushed her dangerous agenda to change copyright law through Congress to protect her industry, company, and job, Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz got all huffy with me when I suggested...
Posted 5 hours ago
[Alan Mutter] Enough already with ‘mediums’
Posted 7 hours ago
[Metaprinter] SAJA 15th Anniversary Convention & Career Expo NYC
Dear friends and colleagues: Next weekend, we are hosting the SAJA 15th Anniversary Convention & Career Expo (July 10-11) in NYC. If you join SAJA for $20 (you don’t have to be South Asian!), you c...
Posted 7 hours ago
[Adam Macqueen] Have Your Say: has anyone seen the spare toner for the photocopier?
The BBC's Have Your Say asks the vital question: "Will you be watching Murray?" Over 300 people - and counting - log in to answer.Just think, 10 short years ago, you'd only have been able to ask th...
Posted 9 hours ago
[Malcolm Coles] New design trend: Logos that change to show you they’re a ‘home’ link
Three's a trend. And five's a default. Four examples of sites whose logo is a link to the homepage - and who make this abundantly clear by changing the image on mouseover.
Posted 10 hours ago
[Martin Belam] Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
Wednesday was The Guardian's first Activate summit - a one day conference at Kings Place bring together people to discuss how technology, politics and social sciences could come together to forge t...
Posted 11 hours ago
[Malcolm Coles] I’m sorry I suggested newspapers turn off their RSS feeds …
OK, newspapers shouldn't turn off RSS feeds. I was wrong. The point I was trying to make was that there didn't seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirro...
Posted 11 hours ago
[Sans Serif] 22 only if they are counting ‘NDTV’ and ‘Profit’
An advertisement for NDTV’s business channel Profit, appearing in the latest issues of the newsweeklies. Posted in A bit of fun, Television Tagged: Churumuri, NDTV, NDTV Profit, Sans Serif
Posted 11 hours ago
[Adam Macqueen] This week I has been mostly...
... trying to find Michael Jackson lyrics which work as headings for the various sections of a bumper "Jackoballs" special in next week's Private Eye.As you might imagine, I'm not going to stop til...
Posted 12 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Johnston blocks staff using Facebook
Allmediascotland has unearthed this memo sent to staff at The Scotsman which appears to show that Johnston Press has blocked journalists across the group from using Facebook.It says:"A recent revie...
Posted 15 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Washington Post scraps greet and meet dinners
Editor & Publisher succinctly sums up the disastrous move, now scrapped, by the Washington Post to offer to host dinners for paying customers to meet journalists and politicians.E&P says: "Few news...
Posted 3 Jul 2009 at 12:07am
[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week
A posting on HoldtheFrontPage over Trinity Mirror's announcement of cuts in the Midlands: "This story curdles my blood, and not just because of the job losses, which are sickening. George Orwell (r...
Posted 3 Jul 2009 at 12:04am
[Jon Slattery] Birmingham Press Club debate
This is timely given the latest round of cuts announced by Trinity Mirror in the Midlands.Birmingham Press Club is hosting a debate on the future of the Midlands media on Monday 13 July at 6pm in A...
Posted 3 Jul 2009 at 12:03am
[Paul Bradshaw] More crowdsourcing from the Guardian and NYT - this time on Iran
Iran election: faces of the dead and detained | World news | guardian.co.uk via kwout They’re at it again. Following the very domestic issue of MPs’ expenses, The Guardian’s latest experiment with ...
Posted 2 Jul 2009 at 9:18pm
[Jon Slattery] NUJ makes July freelance month
The NUJ today launched a month of campaigning on behalf of freelance journalists who it claims are suffering as a result of the recession in the media. It also points out that many journalists made...
Posted 2 Jul 2009 at 7:41pm
[Editors Weblog] Circulate: a user-centric solution to help publishers monetise online content
Circulate, from new start-up CircLabs. The Editors Weblog spoke to co-founder and executive vice president Martin Langeveld, former newspaper editor and executive who now also writes for Nieman Jou...
Posted 2 Jul 2009 at 5:31pm
[Adam Macqueen] Innit.
Today's Sun.Times.Telegraph.Mail.And about eleven squillion other places too...
Posted 2 Jul 2009 at 5:01pm