Washington Post: Breaking down the Situation Room

Posted on 6 May, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"Here is a tour of everything you need to know about the action in the photo and the specs of the room -- from its gadgetry, to its cultural representations on TV and film, to its interior design -- from our in-house experts."

The super SEAL — and would-be reporter — who got Osama bin Laden – Battleland – TIME.com

Posted on 5 May, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"The man who commanded the SEAL team that hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden studied to be a reporter. ... Vice Adm. William McRaven, himself a SEAL ... study[ed] journalism at the University of Texas in Austin before graduating in 1977."

Boing Boing: How to report the news

Posted on 30 January, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Great Charlie Brooker clip from Newswipe, plus a special bonus feature: how to behave in a blog comment thread.

MetaFilter: How To Save Media

Posted on 19 October, 2009 by Martin Stabe

List of common reasons a plan to Save Journalism may not work: a checklist. (via Boing Boing).

Telegraph Blogs: Fake Eric Schmidt: Google Fast Flip has saved newspapers. Happy now, bitches?

Posted on 15 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Shane Richmond quotes Fake Eric Schmidt: "And here’s the part you ——— will love: we’ll share the revenue with you. Of course the ads will be ours, not yours. Oh, and Fast Flip shows enough of the article that readers will decide not to click through and read your pages at all."

Guardian: Charlie Brooker on James Murdoch and his media empire

Posted on 5 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard."

Guy Fawkes’ blog: Murdoch Bucks the Market

Posted on 8 August, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Guido Fawkes on charging for online news: "It is like the plan by canal owners of old to use the new railway trains to pull their barges along. Rupert will lose a lot of eyeballs and the advertising revenue that goes with that, niche market media (like this blog) will soak up mass market audiences that will not be willing to climb the paywall. This is a mis-step from the maestro. Bring it on…"

Kill or cure?

Posted on 23 July, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it. " My favourite: bubble bath causes cancer. (via Ben Goldacre)

Guardian: Live like an MP! Win a completely free floating duck house!

Posted on 21 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"All you have to do is scour the 20,000-odd pages of MPs' expense claims on the Guardian website, and pick the one example that for you best encapsulates the sheer bloody skull-numbing crassness of this whole episode, surely among the most thrilling in our great parliament's history. The winner will be chosen by an independent judge, whose details will be available on request. They will be looking for the most absurd, shocking or shameful claim you can find."

Sydney Morning Herald: Readers reluctant to pay for online news

Posted on 11 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"The PricewaterhouseCoopers survey on the outlook for newspapers in the digital age, Moving into multiple business models, found ... Readers interested in financial news and sport "expressed a relatively high willingness to pay for this content online", the study found. Finance readers were ready to pay up to 97 per cent of the price of a general paper. But overall, consumers were not prepared to pay as much for online content as for a traditional paper, and 'would choose free content when the quality was comparable or sufficient for their purpose'."

Guardian: Ten years of the Guardian online – plotted in expletives

Posted on 4 April, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Developer Tom Hume used the Guardian API to graph the (growing) use of expletives in the paper.

MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference

Posted on 11 November, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey - there's hope for us all."

Dow Jones: Patent Filing Lays Out What’s Next For IPhone

Posted on 7 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Errr... spot the error: "Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple's standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that's kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos."

Guardian: Where are the female high-flyers?

Posted on 13 May, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Divided by a common jargon? Peter Wilby on the FT's term for what American journalists often call the "nut graf": "the bollocks par". "This is apparently the paragraph, high up in a news story, which is supposed to explain its significance."

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