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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.
[Sans Serif] Now, NewsX says it is the ‘No.1 English channel’
If our TV stations cannot even put out numbers of their viewership which have a faint whiff of credibility, can they real put out news and views that news consumers can trust and believe? NewsX, th...
Posted 8 hours ago[Alison Gow] My 'interesting reads' roundup (weekly)
Retwact: A Tool for Fixing Twitter's Misinformation Problem - The Atlantic tags: journalism twitter ...
Posted 19 May 2013 at 1:32pm[Peter Sands] Outlining the case for shorthand
The Sun's Graham Dudman: If you apply for a job here and you don't have shorthand your CV is going in the bin.With everything that is changing in the media, it is reassuring to know that shorthand ...
Posted 19 May 2013 at 10:15am[Alison Gow] Advice from the Green Ink Brigade
This comment on a HTFP story about the continuing Daily Post Right to Tweet campaign (of which, more here) made smile ruefully Many of the commenters on articles about the campaign (and than...
Posted 19 May 2013 at 9:37am[Paul Bradshaw] Why I stopped working with print publishers (for a while)
Tweet This was first published on the BBC College of Journalism website: I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not ‘writing’, or ‘producing’, but 10 months publishing. Just as the intern...
Posted 18 May 2013 at 9:13am[WannabeHacks] CVs, back-ups, and other loose ends
You join me at the end of a rather hectic week. My Media Law exam was on Monday and my Final Project deadline was just a couple of days later… I won’t lie. Now that the bulk of my major
Posted 17 May 2013 at 10:00am[Sans Serif] How to pass IAS: read newspapers & magazines
It is not often these days that news consumers have something good to say about newspapers. And magazines. And TV stations. And blogs. And websites. Individual and institutional transgressions—paid...
Posted 17 May 2013 at 7:31am[Jon Slattery] Quotes of the Week: From nightmare interview with Ginger Baker to Fleet Street's Fergie frenzy
Michael Hann on the Guardian's Music Blog on interviewing drummer Ginger Baker (top) in front of a live audience: "I've had peculiar interviews before. I once sat on the floor in the dressing room...
Posted 17 May 2013 at 12:00am[Jon Bernstein] What do the following websites have in common?
So here goes: The New York Times The Atlantic Drudge Report The Huffington Post AOL News Gawker People TMZ Vice E.Online Perez Hilton Buzzfeed The answer: the Daily Mail is gunning for them all. Or...
Posted 16 May 2013 at 10:48am[Charlie Beckett] Guardian’s Katz to BBC Newsnight: the significance of a small splash in the London media pond
In the general scheme of things the move of the deputy editor of a small circulation quality broadsheet to the post of editor of a niche BBC news programme is not seismic. Even in the relatively sm...
Posted 16 May 2013 at 10:02am[WannabeHacks] Wannabe Hacks meetup 2013: why you should come along this Friday
So the time has come for Wannabe Hacks’ fourth meetup and I’m sure many of you are wondering whether you should come along to the Shooting Star this Friday. In case you are still in any doubt about...
Posted 16 May 2013 at 9:30am[Jeff Jarvis] Selling ads by time, not space
I just saw some mind-bending work Chartbeat is about to release about measuring the time users spend exposed to an ad online. As background, to quote Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile: “Chartbeat monitors a...
Posted 16 May 2013 at 1:28am[Rick Waghorn] To my right, BT – splashing the cash on content; to my left, Sky with The Cloud for connection. Time we joined the connection business…
As many of you might be aware, I have long been a fan of Sky – in their ‘local’ guise. Or as ‘local’ as anyone of their ilk can get; so that’s local as in Sky/Tyne&Wear. To this day, you can wander...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 10:28pm[Charlie Beckett] Scouts, Kittens And Integrity: notes towards an ethical & effective strategy for communicating change
This collection of cliches and half-baked slogans comprises the notes from a talk I gave at the Blue State Digital London offices to a group of charity, think-tank and culture communications office...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 1:48pm[Adam Tinworth] A last word on "citizen journalism" - hopefully
Like many opinionated rant online commentators about journalism, I get fairly regular e-mails from students asking for my comments on journalism, blogging and social media. Inspired by Jon Bernstei...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 1:07pm[Peter Sands] More bills to make you smile ... and wince
Since my piece on the art of newspaper bill writing and its follow-ups here and here, I have been sent many more examples, some new and some old, but all worth an airing. So here's an update. One o...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 12:37pm[Sans Serif] Just between You and Me, a ‘Time’ special
What goes around comes around in the world of magazines*. Six years ago, Time magazine hailed you, yes You, as the person of the year: “You control the information age. Welcome to your world.” In...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 12:32pm[WannabeHacks] Which newspaper subscription is the best value?
Readers of the most popular British tabloid, the Sun, will begin to be charged for access to its website from 1 August, in the latest of the mainstream newspaper publications to switch to a pay-wal...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 9:00am[Meeja Law] Law and Media Round Up – 13 May 2013
Last week’s round up: The Guardian is attempting to overturn the Attorney General’s veto of the publication of Prince Charles’ correspondence with seven Government departments. An application for j...
Posted 15 May 2013 at 8:47am
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[WannabeHacks] How to handle a group job interview
Recently, a wonderful thing happened. I got called up for an interview in a national newspaper. I was so shocked I didn’t know how to react, except by saying of course I would be there, no doubt ab...
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