Some print recognition for the journalist-bloggers

Thursday, 8 February 2007, 11:41

As of this week, my new job is my old job. After a couple of months working on a very interesting investigative project, I’ve returned to the revived Press Gazette as something called “Content Editor”. I’m not sure what that means, either — except that I’ll be looking after the web site again.

In today’s print edition, Pieman Graham Holliday attempts to dispels the notion that the blogosphere is full of ranting lunatics by giving some old-media link love to the community of journalism bloggers on his — and my — blogroll.

The spread includes profiles of Greenslade by Roy Greenslade, Wordblog by Andrew Grant-Adamson, Adrian Monck, Cybersoc by Robin Hamman, Sacred Facts by Richard Sambrook, Online Journalism Blog by Paul Bradshaw, Virtual Economics by Seamus McCauley, Shane Richmond, Complete Tosh by Neil McIntosh, Andy Dickinson, Richard Burton, Strange Attractor by Suw Charman and Kevin Anderson — and the anonymous Vickywatch.

Update: Seamus makes a very good observation about the blogroll:

Odd to think that Lloyd Shepherd and Simon Waldman, both of whom would surely have been a shoe-in less than a year ago, didn’t make the list – presumably because Lloyd wrapped up his blog mid 2006 and Simon posts very rarely these days (though when he does, it’s a real doozy).

Absolutely right — And Lloyd Shepherd’s new blog also frequently has great stuff.

Update 9/2/07: Graham has posted some details about how he went about producing this, and what it all means.

Entry Filed under: Blogs, Journalism, Press Gazette, Wilmington Media

28 Comments Add some more of your own

1. cybersoc.com&hellip | 27 February 2007 at 1201

Whilst I’m less familiar with the other blogs and bloggers on the list, they’re certainly worth a visit but if I listed them all and provided a link from here you might not take the time visit the excellent blog of Martin Stabe, who would himself have been on the list if he didn’t happen to work for the Press Gazette (in which the feature appears). Martin’s got the full list and a bit more info on the feature… 08 February 2007 in
2. Pandemia&hellip | 22 February 2007 at 0651

Unito il responsabile economico della BBC decide di aprire un blog, per molte ragioni diverse. In Italia il responsabile economico di un grande quotidiano nazionale crede che i blog siano spazzatura. Nel Regno Unito un magazine di settore dedica un servizio ai più interessanti blog curati da giornalisti e l’autore del pezzo ha chiesto consigli via Twitter ai suoi amici/giornalisti nel redigere l’articolo medesimo. In Italia un grande quotidiano nazionale
3. Virtual Economics&hellip | 16 February 2007 at 1714

anything since mid December you may not have spotted yet that Umair is blogging again at Bubblegeneration…but he is, and if you read my stuff you should definitely read his. Also…am I alone in finding it an amusing coincidence that the week after Press Gazette’s journalism blogroll went to press without mentioning the once-prolific Simon Waldman his blog should have rocketed from an average of three posts a month to ten in one week? (That’s more posts in five days that for the whole of July, August, September and October last
4. The Eclectic Chapbook&hellip | 10 February 2007 at 0215

: Fr Feb 9 – NEW MEDIA NOTES – :: MORE WE: Jemima Kiss checks in again from Miami. :: Some Fleet St Bloggers: nice visual presentation. …
5. Telegraph Blogs&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 1931

Elsewhere, there are people I’ve never met but have exchanged links with: Roy Greenslade, Andrew Grant-Adamson, Paul Bradshaw and Seamus McCauley. I’m going to steal Robin Hamman’s idea and send you to Martin Stabe’s blog for the remainder of the list. Martin has a great blog and would have been on the list himself if he didn’t work for Press Gazette. Subscribe to Martin and the 13 blogs on Graham’s list and you’ll know most of the things that are worth knowing when
6. Online Journalism Blog&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 1536

to those who have had to look at my gurning visage twice in that publication this week, not to mention at the head of this blog). Anyway, once again, it doesn’t seem to be on their website, but you can find it on Seamus McCauley’s blog and Martin Stabe’s (who should have been included even if he is now working for Press Gazette again, thank god). So get your personalised news service/RSS reader ready and start copying and pasting: “The list included
7. noodlepie&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 1345

based in Britain blogging predominantly about journalism. This is not a blogroll of British journalist’s blogs – that would look very different. Unfortuantely the Press Gazette does not have a web version of this…. grrrr…. However, ‘Content Editor’ Martin Stabe has all the links. Martin also has a fascinating, if baffling, graphic of relations between many of these folk, myself included. Three points related to this. Firstly, social bookmarking and the networking of social bookmarkers is one of the best
8. SacredFacts&hellip | 8 February 2007 at 2225

UK Press Gazette’s round up of journalist bloggers. And among some good and interesting company too – most of whom were already among my RSS feeds and the ones that weren’t are now. I’m not sure my traffic will soar, but it may mean I have to think harder about the content in
9. cybersoc.com&hellip | 8 February 2007 at 1917

Whilst I’m less familiar with the other blogs and bloggers on the list, they’re certainly worth a visit but if I listed them all and provided a link from here you might not take the time visit the excellent blog of Martin Stabe
10. Conversation Agent&hellip | 9 December 2007 at 1700

Plazes and Dopplr. I also have a few blogs of my own including a private baby blog for my daughter, a blog about the town I live in which consists almost entirely of mobile cameraphone posts, and my main blog, cybersoc, which, apparently, is one of theleading “journo blogs”in the UK. Do you feel threatened by the idea of user created media? How is what you do different from user created content? Is there still a place for traditional editors in the 21st century? Robin
11. Andy Dickinson.net »&hellip | 8 February 2007 at 1657

[...] piccy came from Martin Stabes website (hope that’s okay Martin?) and you can get the full story there. The spread includes profiles of Greenslade by Roy Greenslade, Wordblog by Andrew Grant-Adamson, [...]
12. Adrian Monck | 8 February 2007 at 1716

Martin – YOU are one of the UK’s leading journo bloggers…
13. Graham | 8 February 2007 at 1742

He’s not too shoddy, is he? But, I wasn’t allowed to include him. You got his spot, by a nose.
14. Andrew Grant-Adamson | 8 February 2007 at 1826

Martin,
Adrian is right. And its good to see you back at the Press Gazette.
15. Rob | 8 February 2007 at 1935

I subscribe every of you! I kiss you!
16. Martin Stabe » Visu&hellip | 8 February 2007 at 2152

[...] there are all sorts of personal connections between the journalists named in Press Gazette’s UK journalism blogroll feature [...]
17. Andy | 8 February 2007 at 2233

Martin isnt in!!

I haven’t seen the spread yet apart from the image above so I couldn’t make out all who where in. I assumed Martin was being coy by not including his inclusion in his links above.

Surly he is the hub of all uk journalism blogging traffic?
18. David Black | 9 February 2007 at 1333

Congratulations on your new role. Great to see you back at PG full time – hope you keep up the fantastic blog too.
19. Paul Bradshaw | 9 February 2007 at 1539

I’ll add my voice to the chorus calling for your inclusion. You’re at the top of my MyGoogle…
20. Charles | 9 February 2007 at 1645

What I don’t really get is this. Blogrolls are fine, in a scratch-your-back way, but aren’t regularly updated, and don’t do much except tell passing computers that you have a link. Do people really investigate a linkroll of 500 names? I think they’d be more likely to investigate one with 5.

So… aren’t the links that one generates in posts far more valuable and telling? They’re like the news as opposed to the masthead. They tell you what’s happening. Now, a blogroll of the last 50 links you have (a bit like Delicious, but generated from one’s own posts) would be more informative.
21. Martin | 9 February 2007 at 1711

That’s a good point. I suspect blogrolls are most valuable for the first few days of a new blog’s existence, when they help alert those on the list that a new blog by someone interested in them exists because Technorati eventually spots them. For an established blog, they are probably kind of pointless.

The idea for this came about from an IM conversation I had with Graham about which blogs rise to the top of the NetNewsWire RSS reader when you turn on “Sort by Attention”.

“Which blogs account for the most frequently-read feeds in my bloated RSS reader?” didn’t have the same ring to it…
22. Martin Stabe » More&hellip | 10 February 2007 at 1817

[...] Press Gazette journalist’s blogroll feature stared out as an IM conversation I had with its author, Graham Holliday, about which blogs rise to [...]
23. I could have been a conte&hellip | 12 February 2007 at 1737

[...] couldn’t mention Press Gazette’s own Martin Stabe, but he deserves to be there (and covers it all on his site). Anyway – these days’ we don’t really read people’s blogs do we? We just follow [...]
24. Who's on your blogroll? W&hellip | 11 April 2007 at 1525

[...] send him the photo. Where on earth did he find that one?! See more over on Martin Stabe’s blog: http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/02/08/some-print-recognitio…  This photo has notes. Move your mouse over the photo to see [...]
25. Media Courses | BIAD | UC&hellip | 20 April 2007 at 2221

[...] A feature in the latest Press Gazette names online journalism lecturer Paul Bradshaw as one of the UK’s “most influential voices” in journalism blogging. The feature – ‘Who’s on your blogroll’ identifies Bradshaw as one of 14 leading ‘journo-bloggers’. Other names included the BBC’s director of global news, Richard Sambrook and the Telegraph’s news web editor, Shane Richmond. Paul Bradshaw, who teaches online journalism and magazine design on the journalism degree, said he was flattered by his inclusion in the list. “To be listed alongside some of the people whose blogs I read every day is really quite a shock. The best thing is that it means more Press Gazette readers will be looking at my online journalism students’ work, as I’ll be commenting on that and linking to it throughout the next few months!” Press Gazette Content Editor Martin Stabe talks about the article at http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/02/08/some-print-recognition-for-the-journalist-bloggers [...]
26. Paul Bradshaw: Distribute&hellip | 21 October 2007 at 2120

[...] you don’t believe what Paul says (so why are you on his personal website?) Well, Press Gazette included Paul in its list of the UK’s most influential journalism bloggers; Shane Richmond at the Daily Telegraph described him as being "similarly insightful" to [...]
27. Ego boost for the week (o&hellip | 7 November 2007 at 2123

[...] start linking to other people on my blogroll? That Adrian has too much time on his hands? Of course we’ve been here before. Answers on a postcard, [...]
28. Conversation Agent: Meet &hellip | 4 December 2007 at 1735

[...] entirely of mobile cameraphone posts, and my main blog, cybersoc, which, apparently, is one of the leading "journo blogs" in the [...]

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