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.

[The Media Blog] Enjoy the silence?
It has been claimed this week that ITV Sport is to do away with the services of football commentator Peter Drury and pundit Jim Beglin. If true, I can't help wondering if the decision was in any wa...

[FleetStreetBlues] Pour effort from MailOnline's celeb column
Memo to the lucky subs working on the MailOnline's right-hand column, where beautiful female celebrities care forever 'flaunting their bikini bodies' and 'showing their ex what he's missing'.If the...

[Adam Tinworth] #newsrw - Social Media Standards and Scuttlebutt
Moderated by Kevin Anderson. Initial presentations from the panel: Laura Kuenssberg, business editor, ITV News When she started on Twitter, there were no guidelines, there were no BBC journalists u...

[Alfred Hermida] Researchers reveal what goes into a good tweet
An analysis of 43,738 tweets from 1,443 users offers some valuable insights into emerging communication norms on Twitter. The study (PDF) by researchers Paul André of Carnegie Mellon, Michael Berns...

[Adam Tinworth] #newsrw - multiplatform strategies
Ron Diorio, VP of business development & innovation director, Economist Media Group What is a platform? asked Ron, rattling through a list of OSes, apps and social networks, to a mixed response fro...

[FleetStreetBlues] Local man wins George Clooney lookalike competition
Sometimes a picture's worth a thousand words. And sometimes it just raises more questions than answers.The Irish local paper the Kilkenny People reports:Local actor crowned Clooney lookalikeA LOCAL...

[WannabeHacks] The Guardian’s Open Weekend: a money making ploy or a useful event?
The Guardian announced yesterday that they are holding a weekend of events at Kings Place in March. From the press release, they’ve announced a number of different sessions and speakers, including ...

[Paul Bradshaw] Journalist Filters on Twitter – The Reuters View
It seems that Reuters has a new product out – Reuters Social Pulse. As well as highlighting “the stories being talked about by the newsmakers we follow”, there is an area highlighting “the Reuters ...

[Adam Tinworth] #newsrw - Social Media Optimisation
Martin Belam, The Guardian It's a way of breaking the cite of having to leave Facebook to visit The Guardian. 77% of visits from Facebook to The Guardian only saw one page. Wanted to improve that. ...

[Adam Tinworth] #newsrw - Making money from content
Alex Watson, head of app development, Dennis Apple's Newsstand is a retail environment. Prior to it, you were just another app in the App Store. It is more of a retail shopping experience than we'...

[Sans Serif] TOI drags Hindu’s new editor, CEO into ad war
The Times of India carries this front page advertisement in its Madras edition today, in response to The Hindu‘s video campaign which was a response to The Times‘ insinuation in an earlier TVC that...

[Adam Tinworth] #newsrw - Liz Heron and her hashtag science
Liz Heron of the New York Times wants to talk about the new social media landscape we find ourselves in - and it's very different than it was a year ago. There are burgeoning amounts of social netw...

[Paul Bradshaw] Video: Heather Brooke’s tips on investigating, and using the FOI and Data Protection Acts
The following 3 videos first appeared on the Help Me Investigate blog, Help Me Investigate: Health and Help Me Investigate: Welfare. I thought I’d collect them together here too. As always, these a...

[Christian Dunn] World Wetlands Day at Bangor University

[WannabeHacks] Online CV Workshop: a wannabe magazine journalist’s CV
This time The Postgrad is putting her CV under the Wannabe Hacks microscope and asking for YOUR help. I’m about to start applying for an Easter work placement so I’m in the process of re-doing my C...

[FleetStreetBlues] So why are we reading about it then?
FleetStreetBlues never had any formal journalism training, so earnest talk about inverted pyramids and nutgrafs usually leaves us a little cold. But we're pretty sure that putting 'in an event of n...

[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week: From News Corp to the Hoff
News Corporation statement on the arrest of four senior Sun journalists: "News Corporation made a commitment last summer that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past would...

[Jon Slattery] Thomson Reuters' journalists plan 48-hour strike
Journalists at Thomson Reuters are to stage a 48-hour strike – the first in more than 25 years – after being awarded a below the rate of inflation pay rise of 1.75 per cent.The strike action, sup...

[Mark Briggs] Six Traits of Successful Entrepreneurial Journalists webinar next week
I am frequently asked what traits to successful journo-entrepreneurs share. Having communicated with dozens of them while researching and analyzing their journalism startups in the past few years, ...

[Jon Slattery] NUJ charities boost from Irish MoS 'grave robbing'
A marketing stunt by the Irish Mail on Sunday which led readers into believing it was a special edition of the defunct Sunday Tribune has led to its publisher, Associated Newspapers, agreeing to...