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January 9, 2009
Media & Journalism | Newswire | Publish2
There’s now a specific media&journalism category on Publish2 – so that’s a new one for the feed reader today… Interesting to see how Publish2 is developing – and great to use an application that has journalistically-led thinking behind it.
January 8, 2009
Best UK Blog – The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists
Best UK Blog – The 2008 Weblog Awards. The Mail’s Melanie Phillips in final list of bloggers, alongside Guido and Dale. But some smaller names too: Created in Birmingham, for example, which is doing very well in the poll, at time of writing.
In other blog news, the Brighton bloggers are meeting up on Thursday 29th January…
January 7, 2009
Historical Tweets: if Twitter had been born earlier…
Historical Tweets. Oh very nice! If only Twitter had been born earlier this would have been the result…
(am posting this via Press This application – can’t believe I hadn’t spotted it till now! I’m just trying to move over to WordPress.org but this might keep me on WordPress.com for a little bit longer…)
January 6, 2009
Mento: worth a trial?
Wondering whether to give Mento a trial alongside Publish2 and Delicious?
Mento: a place for sharing links
@egrommet has just pointed this application out. I haven’t tried it but wonder if it’s worth a go to play with alongside Publish2 and Delicious.
January 6, 2009
Washington Post’s best multimedia for 2009
Washington Post’s best multimedia for 2009
A collection of the Washington Post’s best multimedia from 2008
January 5, 2009
Whose responsibility is it anyway? Could survival of the fittest mean journalists reclaiming story ownership?
A comment from Sam Shepherd made me think about the significance of the PCC ruling today – that numerous UK publications had reported excessively on a man’s suicide, by going into too much detail.
I’d been thinking about the significance of the fact that the 12 publications had all based their copy on an news agency article (itself later revised). That defence simply didn’t hold water with the PCC. A good victory for Nick Davies’ fight against churnalism, perhaps.
But Shepherd was more perturbed by the fact that nine of the 12 perpetrators were online publications, as she wrote in a blog post:
“In lots of the cases in this adjudication, the original version didn’t make the paper. The offending detail was removed, by subs who know the rules.”
“The web DOES need subs,” she continues.
Andy Dickinson joins the debate, saying that he agrees with Shepherd, “but perhaps that’s one of the tough pills to swallow in these leaner times.”
“Perhaps we let the responsibility for that stuff slide. Time for individual journos to take back that skill?”
I think he’s got a point. The best that can come of these cost-cutting times is more individual responsibility for work. Yes, in every ideal news environment (though people like IFRA Newsplex’s Dietmar Schantin argue that the more subbing stages you have the more errors are introduced) we’d have things checked by more than one pair of eyes.
But … jobs are in short-supply and some kind of survival of the fittest has to take place. At the moment that seems to mean you need to be cheap, do multimedia and turn out copy quickly. Wouldn’t it be good if the journalists to rise to the top were also capable of making the same quick judgments as sub-editors? Is that really too much to ask?
December 24, 2008
Hmmm. How best to blog recreationally when that’s what you do all day too?
I think I need to have a re-think in the new year. I’d like a web presence that allows me to string together my linking, Twittering and work for Journalism.co.uk.
I’d like the facility to blog occasional posts but not on a regular basis. I think I’ll be making the move to WordPress.org and having a play…
But not now. Now, I’m switching off the laptop and having a screen break for a week. Can’t wait…
December 7, 2008
My efficiency in a Dipity timeline
I was playing with Dipity for entirely different reasons (soon to be evident on Journalism.co.uk) but have created this, so all my Flickr, personal blog, Journalism.co.uk work and Twitter will be in one place. Is this the 2008 version of portfolio? It certainly highlights how productive (or not) one is being…
