MurderMap: London Homicide Reported Direct from The Old Bailey
Monday, 13 September 2010, 16:52
"The Murder Map project aims to create the first ever comprehensive picture of homicide in the modern city. On its completion, our online database will contain details of every murder and manslaughter committed in London from the crimes of Jack the Ripper to the present day. It is based on our unique archive of homicide cases – the product of thousands of hours spent by skilled and dedicated crime reporters in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey."
paidContent:UK: The Time Must Finally Be Now For Grassroots Media
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 15:23
Patrick Smith: "The relaunched Evening Standard still offers very little on a local, district level online. In a city made up of inter-connected but often distinct boroughs, it surely makes sense to offer Londoners something relevant to the specific areas they live in. The Standard should become an umbrella for local blogs and news start-ups—a platform for local people to write news about their area."
Guardian: Sign up for Metropolitan Lines
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 12:57
"Sign up for our new London email, Metropolitan Lines, written by the Guardian's London blogger, Dave Hill."
Roy Greenslade: London Evening Standard says sorry to its readers
Monday, 4 May 2009, 09:13
"Buses and tubes will carry a series of messages throughout the week that begin with the word "sorry." The first says "Sorry for losing touch". Subsequent slogans say sorry for being negative, for taking you for granted, for being complacent and for being predictable."
I’ve Said Too Much: Are we buying this anymore?
Monday, 30 March 2009, 20:06
Lloyd Shepherd responds to David Simon's Guardian piece: "[It’s] perhaps instructive that London, a city many times bigger than Baltimore, has no publication with the same news values as the Baltimore Sun, and is rather served by a right-wing rag aimed at the suburbs and three freesheets with the emphasis on gossip and entertainment. Local professional journalism could die in London and, you know what? No-one would notice. Literally no-one."
Lynne Featherstone MP: Is there too much news?
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 11:38
Hornsey & Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone: "If you take my own home patch of Haringey – it's been a council with more than its fair share of scandals and tragedies over the years, but it's also been exceptionally rare for any of the local newspapers to have broken news based on investigative reporting. I don't blame the journalists generally – I know how many words have to be written in how few hours – but in the case of Baby P it was largely only when the case went national, bringing in national news organisations, that journalists started shedding the light on all sorts of things. … [T]here is a news glut. But also – there is a real paucity of much news too. Now if someone can make a business model out of that local reporting…"
Boston.com: The Big Picture: More of London from above, at night
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 18:17
"[P]hotographer Jason Hawkes … shot these images with a camera attached to gyro-stabilized mounts from a Eurocopter AS355, hired out at around £1150 (GBP) per hour, using Nikon gear and either a 14-24mm or a 70-200mm lens."
Guardian: PDA: Reviews site Yelp is coming to the UK – and bringing the parties
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 23:52
"It won't be good news for Trusted Places, Brownbook or YourLocalLondon, but the well-established US listings and reviews site Yelp.com is launching in the UK [today], kicking off with a dedicated London site."
Comment is Free: Simon Fletcher: Blogs close the news gap
Saturday, 22 November 2008, 12:25
"Twice in the past month [Andrew] Gilligan has used the platform of the Standard to attack the City Hall bloggers … The line was that the blogs were an amateur joke. But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance. They are a target precisely because they are doing something interesting and relevant."
MarketingWeek: Thisislondon.co.uk relaunches as Standard.co.uk
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 15:15
"Standard.co.uk, which will launch on Monday (September 29) will carry a mixture of original content, breaking news, comment and analysis, updated throughout the day."
Guardian.co.uk: Dave Hill’s London Blog: Calling London bloggers
Monday, 8 September 2008, 21:40
"[H]uge areas of London and Londoners' lives and times go unreported, unrecorded and unshared. Blogging offers the chance to fill the void. Part of this blog's mission is to nourish connections with bloggers already engaged in that adventure and to do its bit to encourage more Londoners to do the same."
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 11:04
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Chris Vallance talks to the Everyblock team about Boris Johnson’s plan to introduce crime mapping to London.
Monday, 5 May 2008, 20:54
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Boris Johnson vowed to introduce street-level crime mapping in London "on day one". Where’s our mashup dataset, Boris?
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 09:25
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"[David Cameron] is under no illusions that Mr Johnson, who is notoriously gaffe-prone, will need intensive media management."
