Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
The Daily Post is three weeks into a new live breaking news blog - viewable in real time and fullscreen, here -(This is how it appears on the homepage,on the right hand side of the above screengrab) It runs seven days a week, ticking away between 6.30am and 10pm Monday-Friday and with a little later... Continue Reading →
So this morning brought a "We've been hacked!" email from CoveritLive with the assurance " We regret any inconvenience that this password change process may cause you". Frankly, an enforced password change is a small price to pay... hopefully that's the full extent of it.From: CoveritLive Date: 14 January 2012 01:22Subject: Important CoveritLive Password NotificationCoveritLive recently... Continue Reading →
This was quite a taxing post to write. It took me a while to work through my thoughts and I suspect it might irritate some as, essentially, it advocates allowing the people we interview to see and change copy before it's finished. So, before I get to the point, here's a story. As a trainee... Continue Reading →
And yea, it is written that when four or more editorial execs are gathered together to forward plan the coverage of an impending Happening, one among them will, at some point, spake thusly: "We should do a liveblog". And everyone else nods while secretly wishing they had suggested it, and the suggestee gains immense Multimedia... Continue Reading →
Florida's Palm Beach Post is giddy with happiness at the moment, because a judge has ruled journalists can report court cases in real-time.In a breakthrough which, I suspect, no other media source in Florida will acknowledge the Post's role in achieving, a judge overturned a rule that stated journalists could not bring devices such as... Continue Reading →
I've just realised this blog has notched up its first anniversary. Where has the time gone? So I thought it was an opportunity to take stock, consider how blogging has helped me become (I think) a better journalist and what I've learned.Please forgive the naval-gazing and, yes, it's going to take more than one post.February... Continue Reading →
I'd love to know how many of the UK's regional newspapers have run liveblogs this year; it seems as though real-time coverage and participation in almost everything (public spectacles, event TV, sports, political rallies to name a few) is on the increase when it was hardly in evidence 12 months ago.I've been pondering this as... Continue Reading →
La Princess left the Echo Arena on Friday night and moved through the crowds to the Pier Head - walking straight past me. It was an amazing experience...... but what made it even more brilliant was that reporting the event on the hoof was so simple. Along with VJs for the Post&Echo at the event,... Continue Reading →
I rediscovered a link on my Delicious recently, called the Lifecycle of a Blog, from Wired, which traces how a post goes from the author's keyboard through the system into a subscriber's RSS reader. It's here if you're interested.Anyway, that sent me off on a bit of a tangent; I started wondering about the lifecycle... Continue Reading →
The live blogs keep coming; we're blogging the Liverpool Sounds concert on Sunday with words and images (but maybe not live streaming as there organisers are confiscating cameras and 'recording equipment'. Boo!So that will be sorted out today and Sunday will see various Post & Echo people Twittering, texting and phoning in their experiences to... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 