Jon Slattery: NUJ backs blogger banned from coroner’s court
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 22:49
"The NUJ has condemned a coroner’s decision to deny a blogging journalist access to the Isle of Wight coroner’s court."
Ventnor Blog: VentnorBlog Denied Access to Coroner’s Court
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 09:00
"VentnorBlog was this morning ejected from the Coroner’s court in Newport, Isle of Wight. … "
Boing Boing: How to report the news
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 12:15
Great Charlie Brooker clip from Newswipe, plus a special bonus feature: how to behave in a blog comment thread.
Temple Talk: Rest in peace, E&P: Killed by an aggregator
Friday, 11 December 2009, 20:02
John Temple: "It's easy to underestimate the power of aggregation. But the truth, in my view, is that Romenesko replaced Editor & Publisher long ago as the place where journalists turned to find out what was going on in their world. It's not limited by one medium or industry. It's timely. And it's deep. The magazine couldn't compete."
Guardian: What’s your Woolworths now?
Sunday, 8 November 2009, 13:06
Disgraceful comment moderation at the Guardian. After a Guardian blogger calls for help finding the fate of former Woolworths shops, my comment linking to our three-month effort to collect information on the fate of more than 500 former Woolworths sites was removed.
Nieman Reports: Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers’ Zones: Compatible, Yet Different
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 09:59
Share Richmond: "Over the years, creating community on the Telegraph’s Web site has come to mean a lot more than someone leaving a comment at the bottom of an article."
VentureBeat: Inside peek: How The New York Times uses blogs
Friday, 4 September 2009, 07:47
"Today, the Times has more than 60 active blogs written by a mix of staffers and freelancers, plus event-driven blogs that come and go. I don’t think anyone planned on launching that many. WordPress simply made it easy to keep growing."
Peston’s Picks: What future for media and journalism?
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 08:06
Robert Peston's full Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture from Edinburgh: "For me, the blog is at the core of everything I do, it is the bedrock of my output. The discipline of doing it shapes my thoughts. It disseminates to a wider world the stories and themes that I think matter. But it also spreads the word within the BBC…"
Reportr.net: BBC’s Robert Peston on the ‘total’ journalist
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 08:00
Alfred Hermida: "The BBC’s business editor is an unlikely model for the journalist of the 21st century. But Robert Peston has emerged as a prime example of how journalism is practiced in a digital age."
One Man and His Blog: Should Hyperlocal be Hyperniche?
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 07:56
Adam Tinworth: "We keep talking about hyperlocal, and that's a thought process that's rooted in the geographic nature of most newspaper circulations, particularly in the US. What our experience in RBI is teaching us is that hyperlocal is just a subset of hyperniche – and that there are many niches calling our for good, community-focused journalism."
New York Times: Paper Is Still the Medium, in Britain, for the Big Scoop
Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:05
"[In the United States], blogs like Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, TechCrunch and TMZ regularly break big stories. There are few equivalents in Britain. Conservative bloggers like Paul Staines and Iain Dale have sizable readerships, but scoops still mostly appear on paper. While Fleet Street is as hypercompetitive as ever, its relationship with blogs is more symbiotic than the parallel connection in the United States, where bloggers portray the 'mainstream media' as the enemy or, worse, an irrelevance."
SonntagsZeitung: Blabla blogs: We nichts zu erzählen hat, wandert ab
Monday, 27 July 2009, 12:57
Interesting thesis from Swiss blogger-journalist David Bauer (in German): Blogs were a great medium for giving everyone access to publishing — as long as there was no better solution. But people who don't want to write the regular, detailed posts that successful blogging requires are therefore migrate to more specialist services like Twitter and Facebook. The predicts the end of the "blah-blah blog" as the trend of more personal communication moving to these platforms continues.
Scotsman: It’s been a journey, concludes blogging bus driver
Sunday, 12 July 2009, 08:59
"Bloodbus, the lurid blog written by an anonymous Glasgow driver, has been driven off the road for good. The maverick driver has abandoned the whistleblowing website in a bid to keep his job – 'The Driver' claims he was on the brink of being unmasked."
Techcrunch: Marc Andreessen’s Burgeoning Blogging Empire: Invests In Talking Points Memo
Monday, 6 July 2009, 21:36
"TPM founder Josh Marshall confirmed the pending investment today by phone. The round is small, between $500k and $1 million. … The TPM network of blogs has 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and 15 million page views according to Google Analytics, says Marshall."
