Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
There is a thing that keeps bugging me, and it's this: Until we stop thinking about digital as a discrete thing in our news operations, our mindsets, cultures and workflows will never really change.If we just stop thinking that digital is a special thing with differing needs to print, it would be a massive step... Continue Reading →
Brian Storm, founder of Mediastorm, says to photographers: "Don't just take someone's picture - give them a voice..."But this EJC video interview, hosted on Vimeo in HD, has a message that has relevance far beyond photographers - I think it's essential viewing for anyone working in a newsroom right now. He says: "The tools are so... Continue Reading →
The ever-popular media game of Media Buzzword Bingo continues apace; most recently, Curation has been shouldered aside in favour of Disruption (used in a 'go, team!' way, rather than the less-upbeat dictionary definition as found here). The latest person to lament the lack of disruption being carried out by the media is Ross Levinsohn, EVP... Continue Reading →
My poor neglected blog. It's been weeks since I've had the head-space to sit down and write out some thoughts.But I have been saving items that made me think a lot, for when I did have some time. Things like this tweet... Oh god. We have entered into the "what is a citizen journalist" black... Continue Reading →
From a link tweeted by Kevin Anderson this morning I wound up at a new-to-me blog by John L Robinson called Media, Disrupted.Sometimes it feels like I work in Sesame Street - Journalism today is brought to you by the letters D and C... Disruption, Data, Distribution, and Curation, Collaboration, Content - so a blog... Continue Reading →
In its article A Microsoft Horror Story: Newspaper Chain Is Switching 8,500 Employees To Google Apps Business Insider says "this isn't the case of a small business switching from some legacy email system to Gmail while maintaining a huge Microsoft contract for Office and other products. This is a big company that seems anxious to... Continue Reading →
Image via WikipediaI was reading Tom Stites: Layoffs and cutbacks lead to a new world of news deserts this week* and it got me thinking about how (and whether) a newspaper really is intrinsic to the fabric of a community.It is a thought-provoking piece, exploring the concept of news deserts - although Stites is discussing... Continue Reading →
I read this a while ago but I had a broken wrist and, while I could have potentially used all sorts of free online tools to get my point across, I really couldn't face it. I was in pain, and I disagreed with this post so fundamentally, that the best thing to do was simply... Continue Reading →
The Future of Journalism conference (day 2) Plenary speaker was Robert W McChesney, Gutgsell Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.He had some l issues with the points made by the previous day's Emily Bell. His talk was lively and authorative but, while he might have considered Emily as one-eyed over the futrue of journalism,... Continue Reading →
I spent a couple of hours this morning at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, where the plenary speaker was Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and former director of digital content for the Guardian. Her talk was titled The (Many) Future(s) of Journalism,... Continue Reading →
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