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.

[Rick Waghorn] If the NUJ aren’t very, very careful, they will find history condemning them to the same fate as the NUM - the National Union of Monks
There are several reasons why all roads wound their way towards the National Union of Journalists today. One was a piece that appeared in MediaShift this week; one that returned to the theme of rev...
Posted 3 hours ago
[Sans Serif] Eric Steward reveals Plan B to save newspapers
Reuters news agency throws kindly light on the kind of folk likely to respond to the prayers of newspaper publishers, managers, editors and journalists: 81-year-old Australian man goes out to buy a...
Posted 3 hours ago
[Jon Slattery] NUJ ADM: turkeys finally vote for Christmas
When I used to cover the NUJ ADM there were always motions aimed at saving the union money which called for the frequency of the conference to be held less often than once a year.Getting delegates ...
Posted 3 hours ago
[Jon Bernstein] Who’s Fingerprints On ‘Hand Of Frog’?
The Daily Star has been dabbling with ‘Le Hand That Rocked The World’, The Times went with a rather clumsy ‘Hand of Gaul’ on Friday’s front page, but there was only ever really one Thierry Henry / ...
Posted 6 hours ago
[Charlie Beckett] OK, so we all like networked journalism - but how to we make it happen? (Polis in Dubai)
If you spend two days in a seminar with 12 journalists from around the world (just one American, one Brit) you are bound to come out with a more global sense of the future of journalism. Add to tha...
Posted 8 hours ago
[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 16 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 18 hours ago
[Bryan Murley] Lessons from last month’s Online Pacemakers
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 20 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 20 Nov 2009 at 6:13pm
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 5:26pm
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 2:20pm
[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 Nov 2009 at 11:46am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 10:33am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 10:27am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 10:00am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 10:00am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 9:42am
[Freelance Unbound] Building trust online: transparency and process journalism
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; 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 F...
Posted 20 Nov 2009 at 9:30am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 8:57am
[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 20 Nov 2009 at 8:55am