Best of the journalism blogs

This is a filtered mash-up of posts from the best blogs about journalism. 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.

[Rick Waghorn] If Ms Enders is right and we have to seek ubiquitous solutions to the UK’s local media future, why no Sky next week? They can own your ass, Mr Auckland…
Tonight I’m due to attend a leaving do for half a dozen of my former colleagues at Archant; some 200-years worth of local journalistc ‘brand’ and experience left to face an uncertain future. Indeed...

Posted 11 hours ago

[Peter Sands] How the world reported terror on London streets
The brutal killing of Lee Rigby in Woolwich has outraged Britain. Every British national newspaper led on the event yesterday and the photograph of Drummer Rigby graces every front page today. But ...

Posted 13 hours ago

[Paul Bradshaw] My next ebook: the Data Journalism Heist
Tweet In the next couple of months I will begin publishing my next ebook: Data Journalism Heist. Data Journalism Heist is designed to be a relatively short introduction to data journalism skills, d...

Posted 15 hours ago

[Sans Serif] 12 gems from a response to a TOI legal notice
There’s something decidedly execrable when a media company thinks it is well within its rights to use its might to silence another media company or media professional with a fire-and-brimstone lega...

Posted 18 hours ago

[WannabeHacks] CV Workshop: Ellie House
It’s been a while, but our CV workshop has returned. For those fairly new to the site, the premise is simple: wannabes submit their CVs for the scrutiny of Wannabe Hacks’ readers. All advice is wel...

Posted 18 hours ago

[Sans Serif] How Sarojini Naidu’s son helped launch a paper
The Times of India has turned 175; its rival in Hyderabad, Deccan Chronicle, has turned 75. Despite the travails the publicly listed company is publicly going through, Andhra Pradesh’s No.1 English...

Posted 21 hours ago

[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week: Twitter becomes a Weapon of Mass Destruction and winds up Polly Toynbee
Ben Brogan about Twitter on his Telegraph blog: "Politically, the micro-blogging site has become a weapon of mass destruction. Where Alastair Campbell complained about the drumbeat of the 24-hour...

Posted 1 day ago

[Jon Bernstein] Mastering social media: a reader
Hardly an exhaustive list but some useful sources, background and inspiration below: Statistics How many people use top social media, apps and services? The 7 most interesting social media studie...

Posted 1 day ago

[The Media Blog] Woolwich images divide newspaper readers
The terrible events in Woolwich on Wednesday have once again sparked debate about what balance, if any, the media needs to strike in covering such news without appearing to gratuitously exploit sho...

Posted 1 day ago

[Charlie Beckett] Should the media have shown the images of the Woolwich attacker?
Should the media have shown the images of the Woolwich attacker? For me the simple answer is ‘yes’, but that each of these cases must be put in context and each publication framed in a way to minim...

Posted 1 day ago

[WannabeHacks] Blunders, bloopers and gaffes – even professional journalists make mistakes
We may only be halfway through 2013, but this year has already been a bumper year for broadcast gaffes and bloopers. Earlier this month, a lunchtime radio presenter on BBC Radio Stoke enjoyed her l...

Posted 1 day ago

[Peter Sands] Pages that show butchery on London street
The horrific hacking to death of a man in a busy Woolwich street during a spring afternoon was always going to dominate the news. The footage of a bloodied-man wielding a meat-cleaver and attemptin...

Posted 2 days ago

[Sans Serif] ‘Regional TV better than English news channels’
Malvika Singh, the publisher of Seminar magazine, in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “A pathetic scam that is plaguing the Indian Premier League has been making headlines for days, as though nothing else ...

Posted 2 days ago

[Rick Waghorn] $10.3bn reasons why mobile location matters – and why delivering location awareness and free connection into Loddon will matter to the village Co-Op…
As one or two of you may have noticed, we made the news yesterday…. here. Its been a little while in the making; there are 201 things going on in everyone’s lives that doesn’t always lend itself to...

Posted 2 days ago

[WannabeHacks] Is a global, collaborative media project from aspiring journalists feasible?
As I currently study for my final university exams in history and politics, my brain is constantly subconsciously connecting themes in my interests together. Star Wars and racism, the war on terror...

Posted 2 days ago

[Paul Bradshaw] Two pieces of information
TweetTwo pieces of information that came to my attention today: Firstly, from a piece of research on aspiring journalists in France: “Students from the least privileged social sectors are more soci...

Posted 3 days ago

[Sans Serif] They also serve who sort, insert and distribute
In the Bangalore neighbourhood of Ulsoor, newspaper vendors slip pamphlets, flyers and other materials into the Sunday papers before heading off to doo-deliver them. Photograph: M.S. Gopal/ Mumbai ...

Posted 3 days ago

[Jon Bernstein] How to use Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform but it isn’t WordPress. If that feels like a distinction so minor that it’s not worth making, I do think the differences between the two platforms, however small, do m...

Posted 3 days ago

[Talk About Local] BBC local news – time for something completely different? A co-operative model?
So the BBC has been ticked off by its Trust (the governors in old money) for delivering local news that isn’t local, lacks relevance andThe post BBC local news – time for something completely diff...

Posted 3 days ago

[WannabeHacks] Universities fight back against unpaid internships
Several of the UK’s leading universities are beginning to fight back against unpaid internships and protect students from what they see as exploitation. Oxford, York, Leeds, Liverpool, Essex, Susse...

Posted 3 days ago

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