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Tag Archives: journalism
Why single sourced rumours about Apple should be taken with a pinch of salt
You know, if you wanted two paragraphs to sum up the perils of tracking Apple’s supply chain ‘build plans’, they would be these: In Nov. 2011 DigiTimes reported that Apple had “slashed” orders for iPhone 4S parts 10% to 15% — a report … Continue reading
In which I predict Nicholas Carlson’s next headline
Nicholas Carlson, Monday: “Google Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It’s Working” Nicholas Carlson, today: “Apple Is Blasting A Multi-Billion Dollar Hole In Samsung’s Business” Nicholas Carlson, next week: “Samsung Is Sticking Its Fingers Right Up Google’s Nose – … Continue reading
Fans with typewriters
“It was obvious Lance Armstrong was doping” It touches on a wider issue in the world of sports journalism – what Walsh describes as journalists as “fans with typewriters”. “There was a time when it wasn’t cool to be a … Continue reading
A thought on journalism for Boxing Day
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, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Marr, Daniel Defoe, education, Inverted pyramid, journalism, Journalist, Media
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The future of journalism? It’s astronomy
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, Citizen journalism, journalism, Journalism.co.uk, Martin Belam, Media
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If people don’t want journalism, we have no right to make them have it
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged education, John Pilger, journalism, Mathew Ingram, Media, Storytelling, Twitter
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How I’ve spent my career getting it wrong (and don’t regret a thing)
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 … Continue reading
Why “process journalism” is neither journalism, nor process
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 … Continue reading
TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism
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 … Continue reading
