In association with the Martin Cloake blog So far we’ve covered a wealth of ground on editorial skills, the audience for journalism (and its shortcomings), the need for narrative in human experience and, most important of all, why sub-editors are the backbone of the media. Today, my blogging colleague Martin Cloake rightly takes me to […]
In association with the Martin Cloake blog If journalism is about telling stories to make sense of human experience, my blogging colleague Martin Cloake argues that our most pressing task is to tell them better and “not fall into the trap of disregarding the accumulated knowledge of the trade”. Our key task is to focus […]
In association with the Martin Cloake blog So far, we’ve covered the need for a coherent set of standards for journalism, the question of whether the audience actually cares, or appreciates those standards, and the difference between literacy and communication skills. And, crucially, why sub-editors are the cornerstone of the media. Now I’d like to […]
In association with the Martin Cloake blog Yesterday, media blogger Martin Cloake argued for a definition of standards to separate “journalism” from simply sounding off. My view is that it’s all very well going on about the importance of quality in journalism practice, but the audience (arguably the most important component of the media process) […]
In association with the Martin Cloake blog Following last Friday’s Value of Journalism event by the BBC College of Journalism and Polis, media blogger Martin Cloake and I have kicked off our own debate on that very question. In the first of our exchange, Martin asks “is there still such a thing as journalism, and if […]
To celebrate today’s Value of Journalism event and my upcoming debate with Martin Cloake on that very topic, via Soilman comes a grab from the Google News reader with a feed of headlines from UK national newspapers. How many of these stories are really “news”? Not that many it would seem…
To mark the Value of Journalism event at the London School of Economics today (Friday 11 June 2010), media blogger Martin Cloake and I are debating that very question on our respective blogs. It’s a kind of two-venue affair – he’ll be holding forth on his fine blog, and I’ll be replying on mine. For the very […]