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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 journalism, online journalism, reading on Oct 19th, 2007
It’s easy to get wonderfully carried away with this whole internet news revolution thing. The argument for it goes something like this: the internet lowers the barriers to participation in the gathering, distribution and discussion of news, and makes information freely accessible to all.
There’s no doubt it’s happening. Consumers are today presented with a wider [...]
Posted in journalism on Sep 29th, 2007
A few weeks ago I was trawling around on the internet trying to find road casualty figures for this post on Living. One thing which struck me at the time was how difficult it is to find global figures – the best I could come up with was a frighteningly large number I’d seen repeated [...]
Posted in journalism on Sep 17th, 2007
Anyone would think the gentlemen of the press wanted Northern Rock to go tits-up. At the very least there’s been some incautious language going around these last few days.
You can understand a bit of hysteria from people whose life-savings might be on the line, but isn’t it our job as journalists to get a grip [...]
Posted in journalism, online journalism on Sep 13th, 2007
Attempting to extract information from a press office yesterday, it occurred to me that press officers need to get with the programme, or social media is going to whup their sorry asses.
My request wasn’t a toughie. I’d seen a story on BBC News that I wanted to cover for a client. The source was research [...]
Posted in journalism, online journalism on Sep 4th, 2007
Now I wasn’t going to go on about the BBC again for a while, but this is interesting so bear with me. Last week I happened upon this BBC story, which informed this piece for Living.
You’ll notice that in the Living story I refer to “the BBC’s enthusiasm” which, to put it mildly, was gushing. [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 17th, 2007
Anyone looked at BBC News today? Stupid question really. You don’t need to see the site’s off-the-scale Social Meter score to know it’s one of the most authoritative on the internet, even if its writers still don’t know where to put an apostrophe.
The site’s lovable semi-literate fucknuttery remains intact, then, but the Beeb has finally [...]
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