Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
I guess most of us were stunned by the News of the World announcement on Thursday. Of course it was a calculated move and, considering it now, I imagine it was business cased some considerable time ago, and placed in the 'In Case of Emergency, Break Glass' box. After all, multinational corporations don't just have Plan... Continue Reading →
Social media happenings I will never understand: 1. Farmville: Agri-vation of the worst kind2. Twitter rage: Just unfollow Piers Morgan if he annoys you that much3. Measurements of online influenceTake Klout ('the standard measure of online influence', according to its biog); a tweet from Mo Krochmal asking if anyone understood +k sent me to the... Continue Reading →
This is not so much of a new post as a republishing of something that already exists on a third party site but there is a reason for it beyond lazy blogging.Yesterday, I found myself rummaging through Delicious as I needed to use various Twitter tools I've either used or which have featured on, for... Continue Reading →
Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c.12)39. Power to prohibit publication of certain matter in newspapers.— (1) In relation to any proceedings in any court . . . F6, the court may direct that—(a)no newspaper report of the proceedings shall reveal the name, address or school, or include any particulars calculated to lead to the... 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 →
After Hanoi-based Steve Jackson (@ourman) tweeted "Is there any online software that will turn your Twitter activity into a graph?" I had a look through recommendations he received in reply and I thought I'd give them a try, alongside some of the ones I use regularly, or ones I've stumbled across and meant to use.... Continue Reading →
Facebook has been on my mind this week. First of all it published some advice to the Meeja on how journalists can get the most out of using the social network which, while a little heavy on the exclaimation marks, seems useful and has some good pointers. It's a best practice guide for reporters who... Continue Reading →
The above is taken from Dictionary.net; I screengrabbed it as I particularly like the 'interchange' reference in no.2. I think it's something that newsrooms can lose sight of from time to time.How does a journalist come to accept and embrace the idea of 'interchange', when the industry is founded on 'imparting'? I'd suggest the learning... Continue Reading →
This is my first word tree, made today using Many Eyes and the full text of the Chancellor's Budget speech from the FT - I happened to pick out 'Economy' but this is a living visualisation so it can be reset to search for other words and terms.I joined Many Eyes some time ago but... Continue Reading →
It must be dissertation time of year again; requests for help from journalism students are winging their way to my inbox like swallows. They're pretty varied too, ranging from considered requests for assistance, with specific questions and an explanation of the focus of the student's work, to broad-brush "what you think the future holds for... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 