Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
There is a story - and I'm told it's not apocryphal - that the Liverpool Echo used to employ a man whose sole reason for existence was to tell advertisers to go away. Apparently, in the dim and distant past (I believe this means the 1960s but certainly there are old timers who remember the phenomenon)... Continue Reading →
This whole post is apropos of nothing in particular, it's the type of story every journalist has, but I found myself thinking about it recently and so I wrote it down.There are a few set questions anyone applying for a job in journalism gets asked at interview - among them is a request to summarise what they... Continue Reading →
Time is a precious resource. There is never any of it to spare during the working day; it zips past at weekends at super speed and creaks by during meetings and dental appointments at a glacial pace. All this means there are various online sites and applications that I don't have time to do anything... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of meeting a group of print and broadcast journalists from Norway who dropped by the Post&Echo offices on Friday, while they were on a union-led, team-building outing to Liverpool.Lars Johnsten, of Drammens Tidende, contacted me to suggest meeting up after a mutual acquaintance (whom I first met and admired on Twitter... Continue Reading →
Mistakes happen. Twenty years on I still remember the Editor's Hairdrier I got for leaving the letter 'l' out of a front page news story on public rail works, and I have (occasionally) felt a little swell of gratitude for Microsoft Word after its suggestions saved my blushes. But this little slip was too good... Continue Reading →
Dear Blog, I'm sorry I've been away; it's not that I don't care, it's just that I have had very little to say for myself and you, Blog, are partly to blame for that.You see, when I first hooked up with you and gave you your name, I also saddled you with a mission statement -... Continue Reading →
Several times a day, an automated message drops into my inbox telling me the most searched for terms on the Liverpool Echo site.It's an idea we appropriated from the Manchester Evening News a while ago and, as well as just being an informative overview of what users are looking for, it's proved popular with newsdesk... Continue Reading →
I nosed around the newly-launched TBD.com website today, and came away a bit of a fan-girl.TBD, which is from the same brains as Politico, is a real foray into hyperlocal journalism and could just be one of the models the rest of us in mainstream media end up emulating. It offers local news and community... Continue Reading →
After Hanoi-based Steve Jackson (@ourman) tweeted "Is there any online software that will turn your Twitter activity into a graph?" I had a look through recommendations he received in reply and I thought I'd give them a try, alongside some of the ones I use regularly, or ones I've stumbled across and meant to use.... Continue Reading →
Lovely infographic to pore over here from Wikibon.. It forecasts consumer generated content, how it will impact on business - and where all this information will be stored.The last section 'Who's responsible for the content' is particularly interesting; if enterprise is responsible for the content created, they have to find a way of storing it... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 