This is part 2 of a couple of posts that develop some of the areas covered and not covered by the CNN mobile journalism panel I sat on at the Frontline. In a previous post I clarified some of the points I made. I didn’t want to sideline them it was just going to be [...]

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Last night I found myself at the infamous (and very pleasant) Frontline club to sit on a panel talking about Mobile technology in newsgathering and journalism (Disclosure: It was an invite from CNN and Edleman who bought me tea and put me up in a hotel, which was very nice of them). The event was [...]

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Last week I gave a short lecture to broadcast (and a smattering of magazine) students about using the web to help find a job. I tried to sum the whole thing up in a pithy slide: It was really about fitting digital in to an already well established pattern for job hunting – traditional ad’s [...]

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I’m not interested in “hyperlocal” journalism that scales.  These start-up, disruptive sites have their best chance at success if they are locally run and locally owned. Catching up with feeds, as you do, I finally got chance to read Brian Cubbison’s Q & A with Howard Owens about his award winning online news service The [...]

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Image by pigpogm via Flickr Tomorrow I’m off to Skillset to talk about their new standards framework for journalism. I’m looking forward to the chat around what skills journalists need and not just because I’m involved in delivering this stuff to our future journalists. What I’m equally interested in is what skills the industry think [...]

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I’ve spent the day at the very excellent news:rewired conference organised by the good folks at journalism.co.uk. Lot’s of interesting people and discussions. But I found one thing very frustrating. (actually I found it infuriating and apparently went a shade of purple not often seen) It seems that some of the breakout sessions descended in [...]

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Don’t be a Google Stranger (Image by Jacking.c via Flickr) Amongst the marking and other stuff a few things have been pushing the ponder button. One of the the things was the recent updates to Google Translate. Even if you haven’t used the tool itself you will have probably spotted the odd option to translate [...]

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CNN have updated their website. I like the layout although I think the boxed content and the ad on the right are a little to similar and the movement of the ad is very distracting. But they aren’t going to move their ad’s around are they. There is a shift in emphasis towards video on [...]

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