Regional magazine Leeds Guide flags up a “major investigation” into the death of print newspapers. Well – it’s 1,250 words, which is hardly the Sunday Times Insight exposé of Israel’s secret nuclear programme we saw in 1986 (around 3,250 – and, you know, I think it probably took longer to research). Also, while it’s nice […]
From the Twitterfeed: Someone’s crunched the numbers to find only 6,600 US journalism jobs would be left out of 44,000 if the industry went all web – as indeed many think it will. That’s 12.9%, apparently. Or lucky 13 if you round up. As I noted here, when Haymarket moved two of its titles to web-only, it cut the […]
This burning question popped up in this morning’s blogging masterclass – an ideal topic for a blog post, coupled with a poll question (now added to the sidebar below. Will it work? Who knows. UPDATE: Yes it does. Fantastic). So – voting in the seminar room seems to split along the lines of “Yes”, “No”, “Not […]
A last-minute booking to sit in on first-year undergrads at UCA Farnham’s journalism course means I get to wade through a pile of blogs in a professional capacity – as opposed to my usual practice of wading through a pile of blogs for geeky fun. The students are doing the online module, which means they […]
A challenge from Twitter Just up on the online journalism Twitter feed from Kari Rippetoe: What advice would you give a print journalism vet to transition into web content editing? Pls twt your advice & feel free to blog about it. It’s an interesting question, and one I’m pretty much in the middle of, so OK […]
I posted here about the government report that finds young people leave school or college without being able to write in real English rather than SMS speak. As an old sub, of course, I find poor spelling and grammar are like nails down a blackboard to my delicate sensibilities. But maybe – just maybe – I’m wrong. […]
The FT reports on the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper. The story is picked up and aggregated with the rest of the weekend’s print news carnage by Recovering Journalist here in typically apocalyptic style: This was the week that was–the beginning of the end. Newspapers, as we know them, are dead. Mark Potts’s […]
Via the Communicators in Business web site – a link to a government report that finds young people leave school or college minus key everyday learnings such as how to write in real English rather than SMS speak, or how to take a phone message: The report finds that although many schools, colleges and universities […]