New Relationships, Forms, and Models for News — Geeks Bearing Gifts — Medium "So perhaps the news industry must think past the idea that it is in the content, advertising, and distribution businesses. Perhaps we should ask whether — like Google and Facebook — news instead should be a service that helps people accomplish their goals. " tags: models... Continue Reading →
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The menace of memes: how pictures can paint a thousand lies » Spectator Blogs "And perhaps if trust in politicians were higher, these memes wouldn’t be shared so uncritically as people would think there was something rum about them. But I suspect that the lack of suspicion about what the graphics purport to show doesn’t... Continue Reading →
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Brands Are Wasting Money on Facebook and Twitter - WSJ "top brands’ Facebook and Twitter posts only reach around 2% of their fans and followers, and less than 0.1% of fans and followers actually interact with each post on average. What’s more, Facebook announced last week that another tweak to its news feed algorithm will... Continue Reading →
Six thoughts on emerging opportunities for journalism
Attending the Society of Editors* conference on November 10 and 11 meant a trip back to my old stamping ground of Southampton. I spent several years there in the '90s with the Southern Daily Echo (editor Ian Murray completed his term as SoE president this month) and it was good to go back - not least to see how much the... Continue Reading →
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Comments aren’t engagement, transparency or community — Medium "omments do not make a community. They can help, but again, it’s about the editorial approach. Community takes a comprehensive social strategy, not just a comment box on the bottom of articles." tags: comments engagement transparency community Three Truths about Social Media and Your Readers | Parse.ly... Continue Reading →
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Minimum Viable Personal Branding for Writers and Journalists : Elizabeth Spiers Wise words: " think there’s a minimum amount of work you have to do to make sure that people looking to recruit you get a sense of your best work and what you’re aiming to do in the long term." tags: brand social media... Continue Reading →
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Report: Local newspapers most trusted and popular source of local news, but Facebook gaining ground | Press Gazette "The research suggests that Facebook is a growing source of local news, with 27 per cent of respondents using it (versus 22 per cent in 2013) and some 11 per cent listed Twitter (versus 9 per cent... Continue Reading →
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How social media is reshaping news | Pew Research Center Some new PEW research on how people use social media for news, and what that means for news brands. " Facebook is an important source of website referrals for many news outlets, but the users who arrive via Facebook spend far less time and consume far fewer pages... Continue Reading →
Innovations and ideas on the agenda for #fearlessDEN
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/475463981 Here's an exciting thing: The next DEN (Digital Editors Network) meeting is being held at Trinity Mirror Towers, aka One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, aka IN MY ACTUAL HQ. Having attended many DENs over the year (we even hosted one at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo) it's exciting to be inviting the network at Canary Wharf, and... Continue Reading →
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extract from Jamie Bartlett's new book on internet trools, The Dark Net. (pdf format) This chapter opens with a description of how users of 4chan set out to exploit, humiliate and expose a girl who - from her willingness to pose with her meds - seems to have some problems with her mental health. It's... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 