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.

[Ben Goldacre] The Nutt Sack Affair (part 493)
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 7 November 2009, The Guardian Obviously it’s pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor Nutt’s sacking, that everyone outside of politics now recognises the i...
Posted 9 hours ago
[Jeff Jarvis] Tough love for media
Here in a bit more friendly video format is the keynote I gave to the Munich Media Days (in English) a week ago, which I linked to earlier. I decided to be blunt and tough and tell them I was worri...
Posted 11 hours ago
[FleetStreetBlues] FOI Friday
It's always exciting to come across a brand-new proper journalism blog, and this one, by David Higgerson, comes highly recommended.David Higgerson, it turns out, is head of multimedia at Trinity Mi...
Posted 13 hours ago
[Advancing the Story] How to do investigative stories
Be respectful, listen politely and stick up for the little guy. That doesn’t sound much like the advice of a hard-hitting investigative reporter, but Steve Andrews has been righting wrongs in the T...
Posted 14 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Trinity Mirror ends final salary pension scheme
The NUJ has condemned Trinity Mirror for announcing the closure of its final salary pension scheme....and for telling staff about it late on Friday afternoon. An email was sent out to Trinity Mirro...
Posted 15 hours ago
[Sarah Hartley] Leeds gearing up for city’s first social media surgery
Next Tuesday will see the first Social Media Surgery held in Leeds – so what can you expect to find going on? I spoke with Leeds organiser John Popham about the launch event as well as an old-hand ...
Posted 15 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Number of journalists arrested in Iran tops 100
Reporters Without Borders is warning of worsening press freedom and treatment of detained journalists in Iran as well as more arrests in the past few days.Agence France-Presse correspondent Farhad ...
Posted 16 hours ago
[Adam Macqueen] Your Friday Treat
A few years ago I done had an idea. I would set up a blog gathering badly-posed pictures from local papers. It was inspired partly by the time I watched a group of street performers in Cheltenham u...
Posted 16 hours ago
[Adam Tinworth] Facing The Future of Journalism (and liking it)
I've gone a bit quiet, haven't I? Sorry about that, but I've been busy, holidaying and sick, but not necessarily in that order. One element of the busyness was this:Yes, I was back in Cardiff to gu...
Posted 17 hours ago
[Alan Mutter] Chicago news co-op starts on a shoestring
Posted 19 hours ago
[Jeremy Dear] A postcard (or a1000) to Ben Bradshaw
Had a lie in till 7am following the news that the postal workers action had been called off while talks go on. It meant no early morning picket line visit.Yesterday afternoon NUJ Broadcasting Organ...
Posted 20 hours ago
[Alexandre Gamela] #hashbrum: Moseley Road Baths Tour – Video
I’ve been working all week in my HashBrum school project, and today i can present the latest installment for one of the major stories there: the Moseley Road Baths. I was there last Saturday shooti...
Posted 21 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Tony Loynes quits NCTJ after two months
Tony Loynes has left his new post as head of accreditation at the National Council for the Training of Journalists after two months.He told me today: "I was really loving the job but I was commutin...
Posted 22 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Headline of the Day. . .
Headline from The Sun today over the story of a theatre-goer who threw up over the audience from the upper balcony during a performance of Breakfast At Tiffany's starring Anna Friel.
Posted 22 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] What a Mickey Mouse apology. . .
Guardian corrections range from the serious to the ridiculous. One of them today falls into the later category. An apology to Mickey Mouse:"We were wrong to say Mickey Mouse is making his debut as ...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week
Candidate for The Journalist editorship Mark Watts: "EXCLUSIVE. Trotskyist group the socialist workers party helped to re-launch “NUJ Left” last November as a vehicle to take control of the nationa...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] Ian Craig: Obit in the Indy today
There is a wonderful obituary of Ian Craig, who was a lobby journalist for the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News for more than 20 years, by David McKittrick in The Independent today. Forme...
Posted 23 hours ago
[Freelance Unbound] FT: pink paper turns red?
Iain Martin of the Wall Street Journal has written an interesting series of posts fisking the Financial Times. Essentially he argues that the FT – which is typically perceived as a bastion of the p...
Posted 6 Nov 2009 at 9:30am
[Malcolm Coles] What Twitter’s new retweet / RT thingy looks like
Despite having to wait ages for lists and Google wave, I seem to have Twitter RTs early. I haven't actually seen a live one yet ... And I don't really like the sound of them as I like to comment on...
Posted 6 Nov 2009 at 9:26am
[Sans Serif] PRABHASH JOSHI, A HINDI TITAN, IS NO MORE
sans serif records with deep regret the passing away of the veteran Hindi editor and a fearless voice against media malfeasance, Prabhash Joshi, in New Delhi on Friday morning. He was 72 years old....
Posted 6 Nov 2009 at 5:29am