Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 20 March 2006 at 12:47
Tags: Journalism, New Media, Newspapers, Yahoo
On his Bayosphere blog an Gillmor highlights the campaign to save his old paper, the San Jose Mercury News and makes his own proposal that Yahoo! could save the paper
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 28 February 2006 at 19:11
Tags: Blogs, Journalism, Nationals, New Media, Newspapers, Online
In an interview Simon Waldman says newspapers will have to go much further to incorporate reader content on their sites “than many currently feel comfortable with”.
Waldman, the Guardian’s director of digital publishing, tells Journalism.co.uk that it will be “essential to rewrite the rules” on engaging with readers and users.
“Some people find this abhorrent and will choose to ignore what’s happening. And there will be times when they can feel quite smug as those of us going down the engagement route hit some inevitable road blocks. But in the long term they will find themselves preaching to an ever-smaller congregation.
“We should acknowledge that a new generation of under-25s is emerging with radically different expectations of media. To put a commercial spin on this, we can’t just think of them as our future readers and users, but as the brand managers and media buyers of the future as well.”
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Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 24 February 2006 at 16:19
Tags: BBC, Blogs, Guardian, Journalism, Newspapers, Online
Simon Waldman has posted Dave Sifry’s Technorati Blogs v MSM which, as he points out, shows the Guardian’s website is ranked in the top ten of most popular blogs, only one behind the BBC, which ranks sixth.
Other observations include the fact that blogging remains a predominately English language affair - and that bloggers still depend heavily on the mainstream media - “even if that dependency is sometimes similar to the way that dogs depend on lamposts”.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 24 February 2006 at 14:21
Tags: Journalism, New Media, Podcasting
Overhearing snippets of a conversation at the Hospital in Covent Garden inspired Gordon MacMillan’s “genius” idea for capturing such tete-a-tetes on a digital recorder and then making it “ready for download right after lunch”.
As MacMillan observes, the Hospital “is not alone in offering intimate dining where neighbouring conversations are as clear as your own”.
The Ivy, the Wolseley, San Lorenzo, Nobu or Sketch, Langans, Soho House and Century would be good places to start, he reckons.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 23 February 2006 at 11:28
Tags: Nationals, Newspapers
The BBC Four series Lefties recounted the story of the News on Sunday, the left-wing tabloid that launched as a bold experiment in 1987 only to close six weeks later.
The decision to splash with a story about a Brazilian who had been forced to sell his kidney for the first edition was ridiculed - there were plenty of people who lined up to say the content was dreadful - but Keith Sutton, who was editor at the time explained that they “didn’t have anything else”. Sales were disastrous.
You couldn’t but smile at the fact that just journalists who were close to deadline had been sent on a deaf awareness course - for training that required them to walk around Manchester wearing earplugs.
John Pilger walked out because of editorial differences before the project even launched said in an interview that he had no sense of ‘I told you so’ only sadness and ’some anger’.
Alan Hayling, who is now head of BBC Documentaries who had been a Ford worker alos disccusses why he thinks the attempt to create a mass circulation left wing paper went wrong.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 22 February 2006 at 18:10
Tags: International Herald Tribune, Newspapers, Television
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward whose reporting brought down President Nixon has said the greatest threat to democracy is not terrorism but governmental secrecy.
He also criticised the 24-hour news culture that emphasises speed over accuracy and demands that journalists not just report but predict the future.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 22 February 2006 at 11:56
Tags: New Media, Newspapers, Online, Sunday Times, Times
Times Online could use audio and visual material to become like Radio 4 television on the internet according to the MediaGuardian report on a meeting organised by News International to inform journalists about the company’s future online.
News International executive chairman Les Hinton and group managing director Clive Milner have been hosting a travelling roadshow to talk to staff about the challenges of the internet.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 21 February 2006 at 17:53
Tags: International, Newspapers
Editor and Publisher reports that with five days to go until the latest deadline set by the kidnappers of Christian Science Monitor journalist, her colleagues are downplaying the 26 Feb date as the final chance to win her release.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 21 February 2006 at 15:43
Tags: BBC, New Media, Online
Alastair Campbell admits to the delicious irony that as the man responsible for New Labour’s communications strategy he “was in the dark ages when it came to technology“.
On Andrew Marr’s Radio 4 programme “Start the Week” (RealAudio) and then in an article for AOL, Campbell admits he never uses a computer in all the time he worked for Tony Blair and would write responses to emails in long hand for his assistants type them up.
And while the publication of emails was viewed as a ground-breaking use of the internet during the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Government scientist David Kelly, Campbell admits that his computer illiteracy would become an issue:
“There were emails galore to be published, but none from me, just a few sent on my behalf by my long-suffering PA or one of her team. At one point during my appearance to give evidence, I had to explain who all these people were who sent emails “on behalf of Alastair Campbell.”
These days Campbell has a blackberry, but recalls how he hit the wrong key when joking with a friend “that he should tell the BBC to ‘**** off and cover something important for once’, only to discover that I sent it not to my friend but to the BBC, thereby providing Newsnight with a lead story to salivate over on an otherwise quiet news day”.
Posted by
Julie Tomlin
on 17 February 2006 at 16:10
Tags: Television
Fox News Channel averaged 2.1 million viewers when Vice President Dick Cheney gave FNC’s Washington managing editor Brit Hume an exclusive about his role in a weekend hunting accident and the subsequent delay in going public with the story.
But Cheney’s decision didn’t make Jack Cafferty at CNN very happy.
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