Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
I'm starting to think social media has made me a less-than-tolerant communicator when it comes to certain issues. This is why: 1. I assume everyone has already seen whatever Twitter is buzzing about and so knows what I'm talking about.2. "Because it's wrong" is not a comprehensive and thorough enough explanation of why I detest MSM... Continue Reading →
I came across an exchange between the Daily Post and Wrexham.com on Twitter today that made me happy. It makes far more sense for MSM and hyperlocals to support each other to get information out; the alternative is to pretend the other doesn't exist or - worse - denigrate the 'rival' source. The former is a... Continue Reading →
I have few things in common with Rebekah Brooks beyond the fact that we're both women and both in the media (ish - it's not like she's gone into Engineering or anything since quitting the Day Job). But now it turns out we have two other things in common - we're both horsewomen, and we've both... Continue Reading →
From a link tweeted by Kevin Anderson this morning I wound up at a new-to-me blog by John L Robinson called Media, Disrupted.Sometimes it feels like I work in Sesame Street - Journalism today is brought to you by the letters D and C... Disruption, Data, Distribution, and Curation, Collaboration, Content - so a blog... Continue Reading →
When does a story become a story? Could it be when it comes to the attention of the London media? The stick rattling my cage is an Observer article where the interviewer has discovered - in a style akin to a 13-year-old girl meeting The Biebmeister - Richard Parks.Now, Parks is someone I've learned a... Continue Reading →
How do you turn a newspaper inside out? That's been the question bugging me for about a week and I've found myself thinking about it more and more in the context of the Register Citizen Open Newsroom project.I broached the subject with Glyn Mottershead and Neil MacDonald over a pint recently; this is how it unfolded.Me:... Continue Reading →
This started out as a tweet rather than a blog post but it's going to take more than 140 characters. If I were microblogging, I'd settle for saying I disagree with Kelvin MacKenzie's views on getting into journalism and the mertits of college courses, and leave it at that.But I think it's a bit more... Continue Reading →
"Farewell to Prince's Landing StageRiver Mersey, fare thee well"* So that's it - I am a Liverpool Daily Post and Echo staffer no more. After countless news conferences, telephone calls from people who start their conversation "Wori'is,is..." and cups of coffee, I have cleared my desk drawers and turned in the company N97.In 1996 I joined... Continue Reading →
This whole post is apropos of nothing in particular, it's the type of story every journalist has, but I found myself thinking about it recently and so I wrote it down.There are a few set questions anyone applying for a job in journalism gets asked at interview - among them is a request to summarise what they... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of meeting a group of print and broadcast journalists from Norway who dropped by the Post&Echo offices on Friday, while they were on a union-led, team-building outing to Liverpool.Lars Johnsten, of Drammens Tidende, contacted me to suggest meeting up after a mutual acquaintance (whom I first met and admired on Twitter... Continue Reading →
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