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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oct 23rd, 2009
Update: When following this up for Journalism.co.uk, I put the necessary calls into the law firm concerned. The individual himself rang me to deny he had requested an injunction against Starsuckers. He claimed he had never tried to injunct them: “I haven’t. Never tried to; it’s not my nature. I just wanted to make sure [...]
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 [...]
A campaign to balance inaccurate news reporting about the cervical cancer jab is working. Malcolm Coles, SEO consultant and blogger, informs me that NHS pages with information about the HPV immunisation are steadily getting bumped up the Google rankings, displacing misleading and deliberately alarming newspaper reports. He says:
“The three NHS pages I was targeting are [...]
Sep 27th, 2009
Nope, we haven’t moved on from Mad Men-esque gender roles. Pretty women on successful hubbies’ arms.
Yesterday OK magazine the Guardian ran a ‘Leaders’ wives’ photograph, and online you can find this G20 Leaders’ Wives gallery.
“What is everyone wearing? Who gets to go to the Ladies with Michelle Obama? What are the G20 spouses doing while [...]