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Guide to making online journalism lectures more interesting.
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A good guide to improving writing for online journalism, as well as explaining different forms, etc.
31/01/2011
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25/01/2011
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Simon Rogers knows data journalism. He is responsible for some of the amazing work finding stories and creating images from data carried out at The Guardian.
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Good advide to pr people. Get your response in quickly.
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A brilliant explaination on the fundamentals of writing for the web. I teach these basics as part of my series of online journalism workshops. It's not rocket science.
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Handy guides to online community management.
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Beware what you tweet.
24/01/2011
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Tracking down the troll. One writer finds he actually likes the abusive anonymous person once they're away from the internet.
21/01/2011
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An example of a part paid, part free pay wall model. Exclusives behind the wall. How much is truly exclusive anymore? However, print subscriptions have increased. I wonder how many staff and developers are working on the web.
20/01/2011
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Robert Andrews looks at the cost of the new Guardian app. Is the cost too low or just right? There are arguments for both.
18/01/2011
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A quick and easy guide to useful tools. Confirmation of why I'm enamoured with Instapaper.
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Continuing the RSS debate of the other week, Martin Belam's blog was mentioned at Brighton Future of News Group as a particularly good explaination of why RSS is useful.
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Metering web traffic to limit the number of stories readers see a month before they pay has a minimal impact, according to Journalism Online.
This article appeared in the New York Times, a newspaper that does meter access to its site.
I was also particularly interested in the line at the bottom "A version of this article appeared in print on January 18, 2011, on page B2 of the New York edition". Something I have been ribbed about as edits of stories appear online. People occasionally demand a full story, but would they read it?
17/01/2011
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A comprehensive analysis and discussion about the lifting of Solent News and Photograph Agency's exclusive interview with David Yeates. While there is no copyright on news, wholesale lifting of stories is unacceptable.
It is against the policy of every newsroom I have worked in. However, I have seen my own work lifted but rewritten without credit on more than one occasion, so this is not uncommon.
14/01/2011
Missing out on selling to the nationals
My colleague Alex Therrien has found out the hard way about selling on a great story.
Picking up the phone paid off for him with a great story about Tammy Page from Worthing who had the tip of her finger bitten off by a fox.
It was such a great, quirky and topical tale a local agency picked it up and sold it on to the Daily Mail and The Sun.
The Worthing Herald hits the streets on a Wednesday afternoon, despite the Thursday publishing date, so any reporter who wants to make some much-needed cash needs to get on the phone pretty quickly before someone else jumps in.
At least Alex discovered he is not alone as all of us could list great stories we had just been too late to sell but had made it to the nationals.
13/01/2011
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Tips for soundslides are always helpful.
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A stunning explanation and visualisation of how social bookmarking site Delicious links people together.
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The Independent's use of Facebook's "Like" function is working well.
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Excellent points made about essential knowledge of media law. Everyone can be a publisher through Twitter, Facebook, blogs, discussion boards etc., but lack of understanding about libel and contempt of court can lead to trouble.
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Interesting and informative data visuals relating to the Haiti earthquake
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A great description of the working life of a local newspaper reporter. Very similar to my own experience of working 16-hour days with no overtime pay for little money but a great sense of professional satisfaction.
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Hackable Guardian RSS v Indie's Facebook like intergration
11/01/2011
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An interesting tool for RSS and Twitter feeds.
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Joseph is a very capable online journalist who starts of saying he knows nothing, but in reality he does know a great deal. If only more students were like him.
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A useful guide to using the web for journalism students from a young reporter. It covers the fundamentals of online journalism very well.
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Paul Bradshaw commenting on the Palin Giffords Facebook thread censorship and using user generated content.
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Chronicle of the editing of Sarah Palin's Facebook page. Interesting to note critical comments were treated the same way as abusive comments. Further down an offensive but pro-Republican comment is left while anti-Palin posts are removed.
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A look at how Sarah Palin's team is not only removing critical comments, but also "unfriending" the poster.
Criticism is part and parcel of having a webpage etc. Deleting and ignoring, as this blog points out, does nothing to address criticism and pushes the negativity elsewhere and gives it a louder voice. I have a "don't feed the trolls policy", but if a negative comment is a constructive rather than abusive criticism, I think it's important to let it stand.