Feb 1st, 2009
… a place for my media and journalism links, occasional comments/ponderings and for bringing together my bits and bobs around the web. Find me: @jtownend on Twitter, jt.townend on Delicious, Muskehound on Flickr, and blogging / reporting at Journalism.co.uk. Or check out what I’m doing via my Lifestream.
Here’s a campaign with a very powerful message and it would only take a minute of your time to re-tweet and sign. It’s incredibly simple. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoChildDetention/
You can find @stop_child_det on Twitter and on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139016764791
From ECDN.org, launched last year:
End Child Detention Now is a citizens’ initiative which sprang from a successful campaign to release [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
I wasn’t convinced that this Guardian post really added much to the ’should journalists code’ debate (something we didn’t really discuss at news:rewired) but I thought Tony Hirst’s contribution was worth pulling out from the comments:
I was also at at the news:rewired event where Hadfield made his announcement, getting a feeling for the extent to [...]
Jan 15th, 2010
I’m mostly offline until Monday but I thought I’d post a few of my highlights from today’s news:rewired event. Keep an eye on Journalism.co.uk / http://newsrewired.com for further session material / video content etc. It felt a little odd not to be live-blogging (Laura and I left that to the student blogger team and the many other [...]
So, if you blinked you might have missed it, but BBC Newsnight tonight began its programme with an apology for allegations about oil trader Trafigura that it now retracts. But Newsnight’s original claims were never tested in a court of law: the BBC conceded in the face of Trafigura’s libel action, by agreeing to pay [...]