Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
If you know what this is......the chances are you've brushed up against newsdesk or page design in a newsroom at some point. Everywhere I've worked it's been called something different - The Book, The Plan, The Dummy, the Flatplan - but recently I've started wondering if it should be called The Box, because we think... Continue Reading →
There's nothing like the sweet tang of revenge and Canada's National Post is in gleeful form after the London 2012 Olympic mascots were revealed, with no less than four articles dedicated to poking fun:Olympic mascots: Who’s laughing now, London? London’s Olympic mascots are a couple of one-eyed monstersGallery: Horrific Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville and, finally,Gallery:... Continue Reading →
Sir Ray Tindle was speaking at the Local Heroes conference last week and, from Twitter, I detected a lot of love in the air for what he was saying, but it was only when going through my rss reader today that I got the full gist of what he was saying.His take on the future... Continue Reading →
I spent an informative morning at the Mashed Libraries event in Liverpool on Friday. I don't normally go around crashing unconferences but I'd been asked to speak, and as a result I got to sit in on some really informative and fun presentations. The sessions I heard included Mike Nolan, Head of Web Services at... Continue Reading →
I'm not normally a big fan of verbing words but today I've been Umapping. Or, to be more specific, I discovered a mapping tool that has a neat little online game you can make,to send users clicking against the clock, trying to answer questions on a global or local scale. My UMapper map - imaginatively... Continue Reading →
Journalist Patrick Smith tweeted some sensible advice for student journos preparing for the world of work experience this week: He followed it up by urging workies not to be scared of suggesting ideas; now, Patrick is a kindly sort and also found space in his 140chars to acknowledge the difficultes unpaid work experience types face... Continue Reading →
TV Land is great. Just about every time you see a newspaper reporter on television they are incompetent or unscrupulous and - of course - the libel and Contempt of Court Act is something that doesn't exist in UK Soapland. It's a familiar - and lazy - story.But there's another newspaper scenario in TV Land... Continue Reading →
My Reader is crammed with iPad articles at the moment. More than I can shake a stick at, let alone read, no matter what format you offer them to me.As we all know, the iPad will save all newspapers / destroy all newspapers / is the new Kindle / is a bit rubbish as an... Continue Reading →
The above is taken from Dictionary.net; I screengrabbed it as I particularly like the 'interchange' reference in no.2. I think it's something that newsrooms can lose sight of from time to time.How does a journalist come to accept and embrace the idea of 'interchange', when the industry is founded on 'imparting'? I'd suggest the learning... Continue Reading →
This is my first word tree, made today using Many Eyes and the full text of the Chancellor's Budget speech from the FT - I happened to pick out 'Economy' but this is a living visualisation so it can be reset to search for other words and terms.I joined Many Eyes some time ago but... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 