Lots of excitement about today’s report that using plain water in your car’s windscreen washing system could expose you to deadly Legionnaires’ Disease. Key reminder: Correlation is not causality This has been a public service announcement…
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 […]
Do you want to make the Daily Mail more Daily Mail than it already is? This fantastic tool from the absurdly named qwghlm.co.uk site (motto: “Because all the other domain names were taken”) will answer all your needs. Assuming you have Firefox on your system (and you really should), just install the Greasemonkey browser add-on […]
As a – fairly – regular blogger, I have to deal with my share of comment spam. The WordPress-owned spam filter Akismet does a pretty good job of filtering out spam comments – despite some reservations by others in the blogging fraternity. So, generally I’m not that bothered by it. But when I was emptying […]
Well – sort of, if this “staff discussion draft” of “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism” from the US Federal Trade Commission is anything to go by. Among the bullet points: “Hot news” Protection of Facts ie: if you report on something first, you have copyright over the event! That’s just fantastic, and […]
It seems Twitter users can’t actually spell “Israel” – as the top six trending topic worldwide right now demonstrates. Perhaps the mainstream media has nothing to fear after all… [UPDATE: Oh, all right – it’s one way of spelling it. But not the US or UK English way, which is interesting in itself…]
Via Bristol Editor, here’s an interesting post from Advancing the Story on the divergence of mainstream media content from the blogosphere and social media. A survey by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that: The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead […]
An excellent question – and one that’s going to be debated on Friday June 11 at the London School of Economics by Channel 4’s Jon Snow and the Huffington Post’s Ariana Huffington, among others. The event is, fairly obviously, The Value of Journalism, and it’s being put on by the BBC College of Journalism and […]