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 [...]
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 [...]
NightJack - issues raised
Jun 17th, 2009
I already did a round-up post for the Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog but these some are some good points I’ve seen made since then.
Shane Richmond on the moral, as well as the legal issues raised.
The Orwell Prize director Jean Seaton on a voice silenced. This point seemed particularly pertinent: “Even odder is their [the Times'] main [...]
Sunday Paper Strawman: web scepticism+flashy headline
May 17th, 2009
Healthy measure of web scepticism ['If web 2.0 flattens everything to the level of whim and self-actualisation, then it will have done more harm than good']: check
Emotive comparison example from expert [the lone blogger v professional journalistic teams]: check
Flashy attention-grabbing headline ['Break free of this world wide delusion']: check
All the ingredients for the Sunday paper web rant [...]
I feel that I’m just a bit of a saddo: it’s nearly midnight, I’m listening to Radio 4 and finally feeling just about happy for people to come and visit me here at my new journalistic blog. Time to start linking … that’s the modern day blog equivalent of 19th century courting and seductively fanning [...]
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