I’ve been away - down to Dorset to enjoy, amongst other things, Charmouth and its fossil beach.
Normal posting of rambling rubbish will resume when I get the sand out of my shoes.

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Mindy McAdams pointed me to a great post by Colin Mulvany at The Spokesman-Review. He comments on his latest bit of video, about an EPA cleanup at a old womans garage on his patch. It’s a great video. A solid report from the scene and lots of variety in the shots. It’s a [...]

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How do you choose stories for video? | News Videographer
Angela Grant offers some pointers on when to use video
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Rusbridger tells Lords ‘ten year act of faith’ needed for digital publishing future
“For at least ten years we are going to have to have an act of faith and pump money into [...]

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A wonderful piece of journalism comes via Ben Hammersley . It’s a story from the Paisley Daily Express about the joy riding antics of a local teenager.
As Ben says it contains “the finest middle pars ever written by man”
Neil Mcintosh comments
Now, on first reading you might think this is a terrible journalistic lapse. The [...]

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Here’s a little scenario
I read the paper on a Friday evening and then go to the pub. There I am chatting with friends and discussion swings round to one of the stories I read. “did you see that thing in the paper today abo…”. Suddenly a door is kicked in.
A group of paramilitary journo’s [...]

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Working in a converging newsroom is tough but managing that change can often be just as difficult. So (as was highlighted in a recent post) it’s a shame that more managers aren’t blogging to explain just what they do to try and make this work. So it’s nice to have people prepared to [...]

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An (other) absolutely fantastic post by Martin Belam.
He gazes in to his crystal ball to bring us - BBC iPlayer launch: The first 14 days
With just ten days to go until the launch of the BBC’s much anticipated iPlayer software, I thought I would gaze into my crystal ball and predict what the first two [...]

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Online Copy editing test
An online copy editing test from UK sub Trevor Horwood
(tags: content imported reference training publishing editing proofreading work Jobs copy-editing freelance)

MediaShift> Mark Potts on what made Backfence work
“[B]ased on the Backfence experience, here are are a few things I believe are essential for the success of a user-generated hyper-local site:”
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