The sad news that venerable journalism industry magazine Editor & Publisher is to close apparently reached fourth place in Twitter’s trending topics list yesterday. Which seems to confirm my theory that it’s journalists who are all over Twitter like flies on a dead dog. According to the E&P web site: The name “Editor & Publisher” […]
Just discovered via Taking Out The Trash – venerable “journal of parapolitics” Lobster has moved to online only distribution. I subscribed to Lobster for several years back in the 1990s. I often found it hard going (there’s only so much I can ever want to know about the Bilderberg Group). But the whole microwaves and […]
Posting has been light on Freelance Unbound this week, mainly because I’ve been drowning in PHP in an attempt to code a web site. So far, the process is: Tweak the code Break the site Undo Tweak again Refresh Repeat until something works I’m enjoying it, in a strange kind of way. Though I’m finding […]
Electronic newspapers and magazines are being touted by the media industry as a way of clinging on to readers and revenue. Adobe spent a couple of days at last month’s MediaPro 09 publishing expo in London heavily pushing its Air publishing tool, which allows clients to publish a digital facsimile of their newspaper or magazine (complete […]
After last week’s unmissable, $30 a month opportunity to write for a potential audience of 24 million, how about this ad for a “Home based internet researcher”? For some reason, though the deadline hadn’t passed when I first grabbed the ad, the ad was dropped from Journalism.co.uk before the stated closing date. Maybe 63336 Limited has […]
Spotted on Yahoo News: Beyoné leads the way at the Grammys Ouch…
Tuesday’s trip to Bristol to meet fellow blogger and digital evangelist Bristol Editor, and hang out with my old animation buddies from UWE, was enlivened by a drama playing out on local radio station Original 106.5FM. The station was apparently hijacked by “shock newspaper columnist” Mike Ford – a supposedly controversial contributer to the Bristol Evening […]
I loved this comment on Tim Luckhurst’s recent journalism-is-so-up-itself-it-believes-it’s-the-cornerstone-of-democracy opinion piece on the Guardian web site. “Dinosaur rages against approaching asteroid. Blog at 11.” There’s almost nothing else to say. But what the hell. One problem with the Luckhurst analysis is that he recognises the economic drivers that created the modern newspaper, but then tries […]
[vimeo width=”500″ height=”280″]http://vimeo.com/7937150[/vimeo] Channel 4 news reporter and More 4 news presenter Keme Nzerem speaks to UCA Farnham journalism students on why now is a good time to enter journalism. Really. The video was shot by first year UCA TV journalism students and edited (quickly but with consummate professionalism) by TV lecturer Sean Walsh. Much […]