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 →
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Every Journalist Is a Social Media Editor, But Not Every Social Media Editor Is a Journalist - The Huffington Post What 'Mobile' Means to Me Street photographer Anton Kawasaki posts his thoughts on mobile photography, and what it means to him. This is a fascinating read, illustrated with beautiful photographs - all taken on a... Continue Reading →
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Woolwich attack - why editors were right to publish horrific pictures | Media | guardian.co.uk Were editors right, or were they wrong? The debate in the comments on this article are interesting; I can see both sides. It was shocking to see video footage of a man, literally caught on camera red-handed, explaining why he... Continue Reading →
My ‘interesting reads’ roundup (weekly)
Retwact: A Tool for Fixing Twitter's Misinformation Problem - The Atlantic tags: journalism twitter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
My ‘interesting reads’ roundup (weekly)
For The Media: Out now: 'Pressed to Change: Business model innovation and integration in the British local newspaper industry' This is a new paper by Francois Nel (Director: Journalism Leaders Programme, UCLan) on Business model innovation and integration in the British local newspaper industry. Makes fascinating reading. tags: innovation newspaper business model media change culture... Continue Reading →
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Educating the competition out of journalism | AndyDickinson.net Andy Dickinson asks some searching questions of news organisations and J-schools. Got me thinking - and clarified some thoughts I had about the issue. tags: journalism future+of+news 5 qualities of innovative leaders in today’s media | Poynter. What qualities distinguish successful leaders in media today? asks Poynter.... Continue Reading →
A blatant bit of job advertising
This is Conwy Castle. It's also the view across the river from my office. Nice, huh? It's a rare morning that I don't drive over the hill towards this and reflect on how lucky I am. So, the Daily Post is recruiting at the moment - we need a business journalist (of which, more here) and... Continue Reading →
Election apathy? Real time audiences disagree…
Chartbeat is an amazing tool. Compelling even. Today, watching the real time traffic on our site, it was obvious people were consuming the 'live' news on the site more than anything else. Visitors were following updated story of the 'locus in quo' jury visit to Machynlleth as the April Jones murder trial continued, the live coverage... Continue Reading →
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The 5 Stages of Disruption Denial Disruption is an apellation that's flung around a great deal. Music is a disrupted industry... media is a disrupted industry... But handles get in the way of actually stopping and understanding what that means. Newspapers are in a state of disruption - the dictionary defninition is To throw into confusion... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 