Archive for October, 2008
Charlie Beckett runs the POLIS thinktank based at LSE and recently presented a paper on ‘Networked Journalism.’ He unveiled it at a conference comfortingly called ‘The End of Journalism.’ The main basis of his argument is that :
“Mainstream journalism is combining with public participatory elements of citizen journalism and audience interactivity. This [...]
…at least according to Hunter S Thompson. If so, Martin Bright can’t be particularly adept at the practice, he’s agreed to teach our UK Politics specialism at City. As a subscriber to the New Statesman, where he is political editor, I am very pleased. It will be a great experience to learn from a [...]
I missed the final presidential debate but checked all the US papers first thing this morning and watched the selected highlights online. Here’s a mini round-up.
The New York Times said:
Senator John McCain used the final debate … to raise persistent and pointed questions about Senator Barack Obama’s character, judgment and policy prescriptions in a [...]
We hear a lot of theories on the future of journalism at City. The most inspiring assessment so far has been delivered by Chris Brauer, our online journalism lecturer. This makes sense of course, the presence and power of the internet is expanding exponentially. His enthusiam is admirable nonetheless and certainly injects immediacy and [...]
I wanted to quickly develop some ideas from my post for Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists. In response to some of the musings already submitted on the blog ring, I said:
“…there seems to be little discussion of actual publications, this may well be a pragmatic decision not to limit future job opportunities. However it seems to [...]
This post was written for Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists, a blog ring for young journalists to debate the future of their profession. The topic was ‘What would your ideal journalism job be and why?”
Strangely only Daniel seems to have given an indication of the field he wishes to cover. I think it’s important that [...]
On Wednesday we visited the financial news agency Bloomberg and, although I haven’t had much free time to detail my experiences, I wanted to blog about the trip as it was quite revealing.
It was fascinating to see how the company works as Bloomberg is such a different world to that of newspapers. The copy is [...]
My pieces on Nick Robinson and Iain Dale were both used by Journalism.co.uk. The Robinson one was posted to the Editor’s Blog while the Dale one was put in the main news section. Although they were pretty extensively reworked the process seemed to leave the body of my text intact, which is encouraging. It demonstrates [...]
Trying to reflect the wider points that were brought up at last night’s debate I have written another article. This one concentrates more specifically on new media and the benefits it has brought to our journalistic endeavours.
Iain Dale, the Conservative blogger, has dismissed the merits of political reporting and emphasised the role new media is [...]
I attended a debate on political campaigners and reporters this evening, and among others it featured Nick Robinson, Iain Dale and Peter Tatchell. I was lucky enough to be asked to cover the event for journalism.co.uk. This is the version I am going to turn in tomorrow, it’s a little longer than [...]
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