How do you innovate in smaller newsrooms, was one of the questions that was sought to be addressed at the WAN IFRA international newsroom summit I attended in Hamburg on October 5. My answer is an emphatic: “Better, and more ambitiously than anyone tends to give us credit for”. The big guns, like the NYT and The Guardian,... Continue Reading →
The end of ‘behind closed doors’ journalism
There are times in a journalist's career when you are going to have to approach someone who is not having the finest moment of their life, and ask them to help you. It might be calling on a grieving family, or approaching witnesses to an accident, or asking someone who has just emerged the loser in a tussle... Continue Reading →
Talking innovation, skills and the future with journalism students
After decades of not going to Sheffield, 2014 was the year I found myself there on several occasions - incidentally, what a fine city it is, once you manage to negotiate the frankly rubbish rail links that run from west to east. My most recent trip was at the invitation of Sheffield University journalism professor Peter Cole,... Continue Reading →
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