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A thought on journalism for Boxing Day

December 26, 2010

Cover via Amazon I’ve spent part of the Christmas break reading Andrew Marr‘s book “My Trade“, which is a kind of personal history of journalism. If you like Marr’s history programmes, and have any interest in the history of media, I’d highly recommend it as his writing style, a mix of good research and excellent [...]

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The future of journalism? It’s astronomy

January 19, 2010

There’s nothing more that journalists like than the opportunity to talk about themselves, thinly disguised as a treatise on the future of journalism This is probably why the “debate” (which it isn’t – not enough listening) on “citizen journalism” (which it isn’t) keeps rumbling on and on. Martin Belam sums up the latest in the [...]

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If people don’t want journalism, we have no right to make them have it

December 3, 2009

I’ve been partially watching, partially taking part in a debate on Twitter over the future of news (what else?). It began with a tweet from John Robinson: “Tired of the media obsession with Tiger? Me too. Yet people are fascinated with it. Serve the audience or ignore ‘em & move on?” I’m bored of Tiger [...]

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How I’ve spent my career getting it wrong (and don’t regret a thing)

September 23, 2009

From 1995 to 2006 or thereabouts, I was a full-time journalist mostly working on the Mac market. I did pretty-much every kind of writing you can do about Macs, from help and advice to sermon-on-the-mount editorials. But most of the time, I was that most oft-critiqued of animals: a reporter, a writer of news. A [...]

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Why “process journalism” is neither journalism, nor process

July 17, 2009

Jeremy Toeman, talking about the truly absurd “Twittergate”, sums up why process journalism fails: “But this is par for the course if your job is breaking news as fast as possible, as there is no reward for being late nor is there a penalty for being inaccurate.” With process journalism, there is no penalty for being [...]

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A Twitter workshop for journalists

April 2, 2009

I’m sure many of you read Mathew Ingram (and if not, you should), but just in case you missed it Mathew did a workshop for journalists on using Twitter. He’s put the slide deck on SlideShare, too, and they’re well worth a look through.

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TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism

February 23, 2009

The TechCrunch/Last.fm controversy has been all over the net over the weekend, and there’s not much that I can add to it factually. The one thing I will say, though, is that TechCrunch has behaved irresponsible: not so much for the original story – everyone gets it wrong sometimes. But when you get it wildly [...]

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The Jeff Jarvis conundrum

November 16, 2008

I have a certain amount of sympathy for Ron Rosenbaum's post about Jeff Jarvis. Like Ron, I used to be an avid reader of Jeff's blog, and liked it a lot. And, like Ron, I've become disillusioned by Jeff and his arguments over the past year. Let's make this clear from the start: a lot [...]

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Journalism is picking up the phone

August 24, 2008

My friend Danny recently reminded me of one of the smarter things that I’ve said. I’m glad Danny keeps track of those odd moments of lucidity, because I tend to forget all about them. This particular gem came out of an argument we had years ago about the difference between blogging and journalism, and, as [...]

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Print is dying, right? Not so fast

June 20, 2008

Don’t expect this story to get coverage from those who always seem to be claiming that print media is dying. The Economist, the venerable newspaper (which looks like a magazine) has seen revenues, profits and print circulation all rise: "The Economist Group’s chief executive, Helen Alexander, has signed off from her 11-year leadership of the [...]

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