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What’s the story?
It’s a common question in journalism. But like so many things is the ‘story’ about to go?
Kevin Marsh has been pondering (and his pondering is worth noting) how his ‘announcement’ of the death of the story is coming back to bite him. It started in and article he wrote [...]

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A great line from Alexandre Gamela thinking about Lisa Williams’ Ten Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving In a High-Tech Industry post:

[F]iring journalists doesn’t lead to an increase in newspaper competitivity, it just increases the number of competitors, since a single journalist can create it’s own media, and shadow the company who fired him.

A good [...]

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I’m slowly getting back in to the blogging vibe as we approach the end of term - not there yet but on the home straight. The students are getting in to their assignments which include a number of stories for online.
I’ve found that over the last few days, as the students work through their assignments, [...]

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Stress and time are reduced if training has a long tail
Life seems very busy at the moment, busy good, but busy none the less so slow posting I’m afraid (no cheering at the back).
One of the busy things I did last week was spend a day(ish) with a group of editors from UK newspaper group [...]

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News of the second Digital Editors Forum:
 The next meeting of the Digital Editors’ Network will focus on maximising the potential of sport on media websites and tips for search engine optimisation.
Robert Hardie, managing editor of Northcliffe Digital Integrated Media, will kick off the discussion about online sports coverage with an update on his group’s strategy [...]

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Mark Hamilton has been pondering the video quality debate.
Commenting on Howard Owens’ ‘1 hour video’ view he saw the value of a competitive approach but:
I’m still tryng to reconcile his argument about better journalism with his earlier insistence that there’s no ROI on video that takes longer than an hour to shoot and edit. [...]

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No, it’s not some secret new publication from Johnston Press. The JP Digitaldigest is a blog that offers a round up of all that’s interesting to newspaper people involved in online.
It’s run by  Prof Jane Singer and Louise Thomas who are colleagues of mine at the Department of Journalism.
Worth a look.

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Meld is on day 3 and the delegates have been working hard on their pitches. Matt Marsh spent the day with them refining personnas. Hard work but there are some great results.
I’ve been milling around with a various cameras capturing bits and pieces. You can see more on the Meld blog.
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