From the Twitterfeed: #media140 question from audience: if journalism goes online what happens to needs of those citizens who not got web? It’s an interesting (if slightly garbled) question, especially given yesterday’s story about people without web access being denied cheap rail fares. It seems around 25% of UK citizens don’t have web access at home, a […]
Unsurprisingly, journalism bloggers have been keen to jump on the relaunched Evening Standard as a topic for posting. (Surprisingly, I got in quite early – normally I’m days or weeks behind the curve). I wrote that the Standard could go for a local news aggregation model in a bid to offer something different, and attractive, […]
…and I feel as if I’ve lost a limb. Something is clearly wrong with this picture. Repeat: it’s only software, it’s only software… [And there are actually other search engines. Who’d have thought?]
Yesterday I posted about how news wouldn’t be the selling point for the new-look Evening Standard, unless perhaps it was a real engagement with local news. Obviously, Recovering Journalist Mark Potts takes a much more incisive and in-depth look at such issues – and his latest post is particularly relevant. In it he suggests local […]
Like many Londoners – or at least near-Londoners – I picked up a gratis copy of the Evening Standard (now rebranded the London Evening Standard) out of curiosity about how it could reinvent itself as a viable paid-for paper in a world where people [a] get their news for free, and up to date, from TV, […]
I poked fun at my local Surrey & Hants News recently for its slightly random headlines, but sometimes local papers get it just right. This one made me smile – it’s punning and jokey, but tells you all you really need to know…
Interesting piece on Journalism.co.uk on the FIPP World Magazine Congress. Condé Nast International chairman (or CEO, depending on which story or paragraph you read) Jonathan Newhouse believes print has a bright future. “To those who believe that paper and print will disappear, I’ve only one word to pronounce – nonsense,” said Newhouse. It is true […]
I posted earlier about my run-in with the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent. I had commented on a blog post by professor Tim Luckhurst on the need for journalists (particularly students) always to use the phone and nothing but the phone when sourcing stories. In the comments to his blog, I argued his underlying […]
Out of curiosity, I just went back to Technorati for the first time, probably, since I registered there. Kind of gratifyingly, I find I am now ranked at 2,476,024 in the universe of blogs. Well, in the universe of Technorati-registered or otherwise noted blogs. I don’t actually know the difference, strictly speaking. Eagle-eyed readers with a […]
This fascinating piece in Slate from early this year describes how newspaper publishers were actually ahead of the curve when it came to trying to handle the impact of digital media. One publisher, Knight Ridder, even tried out its own digital distribution service in 1980, though you had to buy a pricey digital terminal to […]