Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
I wrote a post about how I felt like it was time to start learning again in March 2010 and now, finally, it's going to happen; next month I start up where I left off with UCLan's Journalism Leaders Course, with the ultimate goal being an MA.The first assignment pack arrived this month, which has made... Continue Reading →
Updated 13/4/11: I posted this here by accident and I was going to delete it but frankly it's too cute.On the right is the Superlambanana my lovely colleagues at the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo bought me when I vacated the premises; on the left is an inflatable Cardiff Bluebirds ram, which was given away... 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 →
I'm not sure what the hand-wringing is about with regards to the Washington Post prematurely publishing an article that featured the editor's notes to the journalist, which was quickly grabbed and reproduced on Gawker (where it remains long after the Wash Po took the story down and put up an apology for the mistake instead). In... Continue Reading →
I have, at times, been less than complimentary about certain types of forum users. I know I'm not alone in this as there are various index, category, definition and analysis pieces to be found online which look in detail at the psychology of the WUMs and trolls - and if I didn't point you at... Continue Reading →
Explosion at an industrial site off Rover Way in Cardiff. Locals said a gas pipe blew up about 8.30am, but it was still blazing away when I drove round there. Lots of smoke - and lots of people watching it burn.UPDATE... (6/3/11)Nipped out to buy the papers this morning and saw a black plume of... Continue Reading →
As a journalist, you should never underestimate the smartness, recall and grammatical abilities of your reader.When the subject matter is a niche interest that warning goes double, as the Guardian discovered (*links to the two articles are at the foot of this post):and, just to compound the fun, someone else spotted this: Whatever your profession, you... Continue Reading →
Interesting email from 140kit team, not least because I didn't realise TwapperKeeper - where you can archive your own and, export and download tweets - was affected. However, there are still good people out there; 140kit has come up with a workaround that satisfies new Twitter guidelines, and helps non-coders access once-freely available data: "...we... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 