once were journalists
Posted in internet, marketing, online journalism on Mar 12th, 2010
I don’t know. Seems I’m still feeling pissy about the polluting effect of SEO on content. While Google News seems to have temporarily extinguished Autobulbs Direct, a host of similar sites are cropping up in its results, blabbering on about how the weather could delay prestige car hire customers (people) or how British commercial vehicle [...]
Posted in marketing, online journalism, work on Feb 25th, 2010
At work, we’re writing a couple of motoring news feeds for an insurance client. It’s not journalism red in tooth and claw, but they’re nice people and we quite enjoy trying to give them a couple of properly researched, written and edited news stories every day. To their credit, that’s what they want.
We use Google [...]
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 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 internet, journalism, marketing, online journalism on Sep 2nd, 2008
An interesting post on Antony’s blog has drawn me into a thread about the commercials behind journalism. In essence, Roy Greenslade has challenged Philip M Stone’s “heretical thought” that papers return to print-first publishing, but he doesn’t suggest an alternative revenue model. Antony notes iCrossing’s experiments with new models of journalism. Meanwhile, Paul Bradshaw (in [...]
Posted in PR, internet, online journalism on Aug 27th, 2008
Maybe I’m slow on this – but has anyone else noticed this ‘highlighted quote’ feature before at the top of Google News results? (please excuse the poor reproduction – you get the idea).
I like the way it tells you how many news sources have included the same quote – kind of shows up the [...]
Posted in journalism, marketing, online journalism, work on Aug 26th, 2008
I’ve been plagued of late by the creeping realisation that we’re a department of between four and six journalists, depending how you count it, in a company where 114-116 people aren’t journalists. Lately, we’ve been so busy trying to shore up our position that I wonder if we’ve taken our eyes off our craft just [...]
Posted in internet, online journalism, technology on Aug 20th, 2008
It’s embedded YouTube videos and embraced social bookmarking, but in one particular area BBC News Online has always remained a little old fashioned: related links have remained fenced in the right-hand navigation pane.
Earlier, DanG spotted that the Beeb is trialling bringing links in from the cold; placing them in the body copy where they belong.
And, [...]
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