Psews
Posted in journalism, marketing, online journalism on Mar 13th, 2010
Noun: pseudo news; Fact x Importance / SEO
once were journalists
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.
That and [...]
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 basic [...]
Posted in PR, journalism on Oct 2nd, 2009
Make-up – the most sinister threat on our roads today.
Posted in journalism on Sep 16th, 2009
I’m not sure if this post heralds a return to regular Hackbashing, but today I find my enthusiasm fanned by some happy changes at work, and my rage stoked by some fucking awful journalism from the Mirror.
First, take a look at this story from the paper. What a bastard, eh? Buggering off back to Pakistan [...]
Posted in journalism, online journalism on Jul 23rd, 2009
Journochlophobia – fear of crowd-sourcing
Handolio introduced me to ‘enochlophobia’ in this rather fine post about Larmer Tree on Living.
Posted in journalism, online journalism on May 18th, 2009
Perhaps he was trying to beat his own record?
Posted in journalism on Dec 15th, 2008
I’ve been working on a monumental HB post, really I have.
In the meantime:
Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview
Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video
[via Buzzmachine]
Posted in journalism on Nov 3rd, 2008
I should expect that, if I were the person who writes these things, I could now consider my life’s work complete.