Four months on from our investigation into address book importing, the ‘opt in’ issue has reared its troublesome head again, with the introduction of Facebook Places.
The British media’s phone hacking blind spot
Apr 5th, 2010
Bank holiday weekend brought more phone hacking revelations from the Guardian’s Nick Davies, with new accusations about Scotland Yard’s handling of the investigation into phone hacking at News of the World in 2006. It also brought a strongly-argued piece questioning Andy Coulson’s position as Tory communications chief, by Daily Mail political columnist Peter Oborne, writing in the Observer.
Firstly, what’s [...]
Legal geekery in 2010 and beyond
Apr 1st, 2010
Some news! At the end of June I’ll be leaving my reporter job at Journalism.co.uk for pastures new after (just under) two very happy years in Brighton.
I’ve accepted a three year MPhil / PhD studentship at City University London’s new Centre of Law, Justice and Journalism.
My research will be exploring legal restraints on the media: [...]
Programming, not coding, is key for journalists, says Hirst
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 [...]
rewiring
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 [...]
If our marketing has been anywhere near successful, you should have heard about news:rewired by now - 14 January 2010. It’s Journalism.co.uk’s first big conference event, marking our 10th anniversary (my boss John Thompson set it up in 1999). It’s been fun getting it going and the delegate / speaker list looks pretty damn good, [...]
The Digger’s pay wall may be doomed, but what’s to lose?
Dec 2nd, 2009
At a regional news debate at City University yesterday evening, media blogger Roy Greenslade asked us (me, freelance media reporter Jon Slattery, Northern Echo editor Peter Barron, Times web development editor Joanna Geary and paidContent:UK reporter Patrick Smith) if we thought pay walls would work. I said I thought Rupert Murdoch hadn’t much to lose [...]
FleetStreetBlues post with Belle de Jour’s quote referencing the manufacture of consent reminded me to do this post. Noam Chomsky’s recent visit to the UK was immensely popular: the LSE website was inaccessible within minutes of the tickets going on sale; at SOAS a line of last-minute hopefuls snaked down the corridor outside the lecture [...]
NUJ Journalist editorship voting deadline extended
Oct 24th, 2009
[Update: Christine Buckley was elected editor...]
Due to disruption during the postal strikes, NUJ members now have until November 16 to vote for the new editor of The Journalist magazine and website.
Members and non-members alike can put their questions to the eight candidates on the Journalism.co.uk forum - and vote in an informal poll.
See the NUJ’s [...]
How on earth to balance freedom of speech as outlined in the European Convention of Human Rights with the moderation of obnoxious and damaging views?
Channel 4 News has just neatly illustrated this conflict which lies at the heart of two very high profile UK stories this week:
Jon Snow was interviewing, among others, John Kampfner, chief [...]
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