Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Sometimes a picture (or three) is worth a thousand words...First we have this...Followed by this...And finally, courtesy of a quick Google search covering the last two working days, this... Sometimes it's convenient to wrap up the big numbers for a headline (and the bigger the number, the better the headline, right?) but the fact is... Continue Reading →
Back in October I wrote a guest blog post for Glyn Mottishead's online and mobile journalism blog for his students, about how site searches could be a useful tool for journalists, I found the draft post again in my Google Docs the other day and thought, since some things had moved on since that was... Continue Reading →
I am fascinated by what's going on at the Register Citizen Open Newsroom Project - I genuinely can't stop thinking about it. I'll read one of the team's blog posts, look at some videos of opening day, and then go about my usual daily whatevers. Then, a while later, I find myself back reading another... Continue Reading →
I found this from the New York Times interesting not just because of the high levels of engagement that it led to, but also because readers were actively comparing the respective results, as well as the data they had used to reach their conclusions.The idea of data never really coming to an end - once... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Facebook has been on my mind this week. First of all it published some advice to the Meeja on how journalists can get the most out of using the social network which, while a little heavy on the exclaimation marks, seems useful and has some good pointers. It's a best practice guide for reporters who... 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 →
It must be dissertation time of year again; requests for help from journalism students are winging their way to my inbox like swallows. They're pretty varied too, ranging from considered requests for assistance, with specific questions and an explanation of the focus of the student's work, to broad-brush "what you think the future holds for... Continue Reading →
No, I'm honestly not suggesting a return to those horrible stilted avatars reading the news headlines, but I do like the idea of using some animation to bring a reader into a story - particularly if the story is the latest in a long running saga and a handy recap of the tale-to-date would be... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 