Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC responds to CSG industry complaint – Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:07
“The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) lodged an official complaint about the ABC’s website, Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers. Following is the ABC’s public response to that complaint. …”
Sydney Morning Herald: New form of journalism must adhere to old rules
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 16:27
Pollster Mark Textor: “Too often, data journalists suddenly pretend to be experts. But a journalist is a not a mathematician or statistician. With data journalism that is exactly what they pretend to be. They imagine they are something way beyond the p…
OUseful: Data Referenced Journalism and the Media – Still a Long Way to Go Yet?
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:22
Tony Hirst: “we need data press officers as well as data journalists. Their job would be to put together the tools that support the data churnalist in taking the raw data and producing statistical charts and interpretation from it. Just like the minist…
PR Week: Primark accuses Panorama of ‘deceiving millions’ following BBC Trust findings
Friday, 17 June 2011, 11:50
"Primark’s response to the BBC Trust’s findings has been packaged up on a microsite, which includes the statement along with a video explaining Primark’s case and a timeline of events. Primark’s long-standing retained agency Citigate Dewe …
The state of journalism in 2011: Oriella PR Network Digital Journalism Study (PDF)
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 11:10
"Social media are permeating the newsroom. Increasingly journalists are using digital channels such as blogs and Twitter to source and verify story leads. While traditional PR channels, such as briefings and press releases, remain highly valued, t…
Six Pixels of Separation: Will A Brands Next Big Move Be A Journalism Department?
Monday, 16 May 2011, 08:21
Mitch Joel: "Instead of plopping Social Media into your communications or marketing department, why not start a journalism department (or start off in a more humble way by hiring a journalist part-time to write content that your organization will …
Edelman Digital: Twitterview: The Modern-Day Evolution of the Interview
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:14
"Twitter’s popularity and flexibility make it the perfect medium for a new type of interview: the so-called “Twitterview.” A Twitterview offers the unique opportunity to take questions from an interested audience spanning the entire globe, w…
DIGIDAY:DAILY – HypeBusters: PR Agencies Are Ruining Facebook
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 11:11
"PR agencies were first movers in social media, doing a better job than creative agencies when it comes to getting a jump on this new model. Unfortunately, it’s making social media a very boring place. … PR agencies are good at distributing m…
The Wall Blog: Facebook is not about brands getting fans it is about engaging with them
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 16:40
Pete Davis: "Can [brands] really create the engaging content that will have their followers believing that their brand in someway reflects their lifestyle choices – whether that be through association with fashion, culture, music or general inte…
Media Standards Trust: Ladies and gentleman, please start your churn engines
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 09:55
"[the Media Standards Trust is] launching churnalism.com, a free independent website that allows people to compare press releases with published news articles – to help identify ‘churnalism’."
New Zealand Herald: Bollocks! says Air NZ to Virgin criticism
Friday, 14 May 2010, 10:43
"Responding to critical editorial in The Listener magazine, [Air New Zealand] this morning took out a full-page advertisement in The New Zealand Herald newspaper using only sign language pictures, accompanied by a pointer to a website where a woman stands alongside chief executive Rob Fyfe and uses sign language to rebut The Listener's claims."
Puffbox.com: Birmingham council: not all bad
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 22:10
"Last week, I shared the general sense of shock around the blogs at news about Birmingham council's new website: 3.5 years late, and costing £2.8 million. But last night, to my great surprise, I came across BirminghamNewsroom.com – a WordPress-powered website for the council's press office, launched a couple of months back."
Techcrunch: 10 Words I Would Love To See Banned From Press Releases
Sunday, 2 August 2009, 07:42
"PR people, next time you start writing a news announcement, ask yourself if you really should be using the words ‘leading’ or ‘leader’ just because it’s easy and everyone is doing it."
PR Week: An open letter to the Newspaper Licensing Agency
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 16:06
CIPR president Kevin Taylor: "I want newspapers to be successful and profitable. I want good standards of journalism and I’m prepared to do my bit: buy a quality daily newspaper and not rely on the free sheets. I hope advertising and online revenues pick up and our best newspapers survive and thrive. But these latest proposed NLA charges are not the way to fund the newspaper industry. They are nonsensical."
