Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Here's a paragraph from an article on Digiday earlier today: On the PopSugar Moms Facebook page, PopSugar’s most popular page with nearly a million likes, most videos surpass 100,000 views. A few have cracked a million views.This video about milk-and-cookie shot glasses went viral, racking up more than 9.8 million views since its Feb. 25 post... Continue Reading →
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 →
Shift happens. Sometimes, maybe, more than we realise. Today, I reflected on just how much, and how quickly, in the general scheme of things. The Daily Post notched up its 50,000th edition today, and we made quite a big deal of the fact. There was a front and back wrap, comprising a montage of historic front pages,... Continue Reading →
I try not to start posts off with "when I was a young reporter..." but, well, here goes: When I was a young reporter the word 'spokesman/woman' didn't really appear in local papers. It was part of my weeklies paper training that you included the names of whichever person was speaking on behalf of an organisation, rather... Continue Reading →
The Daily Post's Right to Tweet campaign continues to roll forward (we even made Roy Greenslade's blog) but since we've launched it there have been a number of other instances of newspaper journalists and councillors falling foul of the 'can we/can't we' ad hoc approach. Some of the recent examples can be found here (Hounslow) here... Continue Reading →
The issue of tweeting in the council chamber has caused some debate lately, and I'm happy to hold my hand up as someone who helped the discussions along.I've also been ridiculously busy at work, and so there hasn't been much time to blog about local authorities and their varying views on anyone - press, public,... Continue Reading →
(Photo credit: hitthatswitch)I have an intellectual crush on Robert Picard - he's one of the academics currently publishing about journalism, and particularly mainstream print media, who really is a must-read. I mostly follow his journal papers as he's an occasional blogger but, like Clay Shirky, it's always worth reading when he posts an update. His latest post,... Continue Reading →
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 →
I would have liked to attend the Future of News Media in Wales debate at Cardiff JOMEC on Monday night - it sounded fascinating.Luckily, I discovered it was underway on Twitter and with assistance of some excellent tweeters at the scene (a big thank you to everyone who helped those of us not attending follow... Continue Reading →
I'm indebted to Andy Dickinson for sharing this video on Twitter, of an interactive Lancashire Evening Post, created by UCLan and partners. Paul Egglestone explains the why and the what of the project in the video, and also shows how the data of reader interaction is captured. The last bit is so important thing; I understand (and... Continue Reading →
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