wake up and smell the copy
Posted in journalism on May 18th, 2010
I thought I’d take a moment to share this story from the Mail – apparently it isn’t from 1974. Susanna Reid had to stand in for Andrew Marr after he was late arriving for the paper review part of his weekend show. I guess that’s vaguely interesting to those with an interest in politics or [...]
Posted in journalism, marketing on May 17th, 2010
Posted in PR, journalism, politics, technology on May 3rd, 2010
Election night in High-Definition? I almost voted.
Posted in journalism, marketing on Mar 29th, 2010
Earlier at work I chanced on the latest issue of Marketing Magazine. The second story is a survey, commissioned by the mag, which trumpets: “British Airways’ YouTube videos win public favour“. Which is total cock. The story explains how BA responded to the first of two cabin staff strikes by publishing videos on YouTube which, [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 23rd, 2010
By now, surely the only person who hasn’t seen this Renault Clio being shunted sideways down the A1 (M) is the truck driver responsible, so just in case he’s reading: While the Mail has since tracked down the unhurt 31-year-old Clio driver, details were thin on the ground on Thursday last week as the surely-it-can’t-be-real [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 20th, 2010
Interesting blog post yesterday from BBC News editor Steve Herrmann, essentially asking “how should we link?” As Herrmann points out, the BBC has always provided relevant links – something I think is essential to good web journalism – but to date it hasn’t seemed comfortable bringing them into the body copy. That’s where the majority [...]
Posted in journalism, marketing, online journalism on Mar 13th, 2010
Noun: pseudo news; Fact x Importance / SEO
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 4th, 2010
Just noticed this box on the BBC site as it prepares to cover the Oscars. It’s the first time I’ve seen them directly embed tweets into a story. Looking at the actual feed page it seems like there’s a problem – an 11 hour-time lag between a tweet and its appearance on the BBC page. [...]
Posted in journalism, online journalism on Jan 6th, 2010
@sussex_news, the Twitter feed for the Sussex newsroom at Heart Radio, has a habit of using individual tweets to flag more than one story. Sometimes the result is conveniently brief and fact-packed; at other times it’s just wonderfully bonkers:
Posted in internet, journalism, online journalism on Dec 8th, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that the BBC News website could do with a lift in the search engines. After all, the site just never appears in the search results and hardly seems to get any traffic. Anyway, as editor Steve Herrmann explained in November, the BBC is finally embracing some [...]
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