Real-life David Brent Terry Dunn signs off email about council redundancies with holiday plans | Mail Online As much as companies spend HOURS training people how to use social media, and most journalists have a code of conduct, the same level of 'Consider before you publish' just doesn't seem to apply to email. Consequently, numpties... Continue Reading →
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Why Unmemorable Title is Now a Guest Post Free Zone ZING! "No more guest posts. It’s over. You’ve ruined it. I will no longer be accepting unsolicited guest posts from people I’ve never met, heard of or spoken to, that want to put a spammy article on my blog just for the backlinks. That door... Continue Reading →
Storytelling readers lives through pictures
The Daily Post's head of audience engagement (or Helen as she's more commonly known) this week introduced a lovely initiative for reader involvement. Called 'My Week in Pictures' it's a friendly challenge to readers to sum up their week through the several photos that best capture it. First up was a local farmer who is probably best... Continue Reading →
Niches, newsrooms and a new type of journalist
Eavesdroppers, it's said, never hear any good of themselves.As it happened, I wasn't eavesdropping but I was sat in close proximity to a conversation that I couldn't help overhearing. It was at a higher education establishment and a department member was explaining to a colleague how to get something in the local paper. "What the newspaper will... Continue Reading →
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Pocket : Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis Mobile, we are constantly told, is the New Thing. Good post on the NYT drills down into the rise of mobile picture messaging and what it means for communication - and for those fast enough to get on a gathering trend "Images sent between cellphones... Continue Reading →
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22 things you should be thinking about if you care about journalism | David Bauer "The big red button to make the internet go away again: Would you press it?" I wonder how many journalists would. tags: future+of+news Gen13 Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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The Past Can’t Buy The Future | Digital First JRC Ceo John Paxton ruffles feathers on a regular basis, but he's visionary and always worth a read. Tbh, I think most of the mainstream UK press accept this in their strategies already - I doubt most view digital as a bolt = but this is... Continue Reading →
The council that tried to charge for using social media
This is the full announcement by Local Government Minister Eric Pickles, on a new guide detailing how journalists, bloggers, hyperlocal media and the public can now use social tools and filming for live reporting*.In Wales it seems to have been chiefly noted for the fact that he criticised the Welsh government - which puts me... Continue Reading →
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The Year of Mobile really is coming: Mobile broadband to overtake fixed line by 2015 According to Ericsson, mobile data traffic will grow 12 times between now and 2018, driven largely by video. Mobile is soon going to be as big as fixed line internet access and it won't be long before it is the primary... Continue Reading →
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What options do smartphone journalists have if the 3G network is down? · Storify Mark Blank-Settle (@MarcSettle) posed this question in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, when the overloaded network proved challenging for mobile journalists trying to file back to base. This is an excellent Storify of a post-event discussion, problems and solutions... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 