As I was leafing through the Guardian on Saturday morning I came across an article with the rather alarming headline Google news tax could boost local papers, report says Google and other websites that carry news they do not produce should be taxed and the money generated used to prop up local newspapers, says a [...]

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The newsroom of the Future?Image by Getty Images via Daylife “Those ‘traditional’ consumers are joined by younger readers who prefer to find their news ‘unfiltered’ on the web. We are trying to serve both groups, and we are delighted with the enthusiasm that our new British partners bring to the effort.” That from a press [...]

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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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There is a future for news – a sustainable and once-again profitable future with the prospect of expanding and improving journalism by taking it deeper into our communities with increased relevance, engagement, accountability and efficiency. That’s the view of uber J-blogger Jeff Jarvis who, when not asking “what would google do”, is asking (along with [...]

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Take a look at this list Deals in the real, the tangible, the directly imaginable Speaks the language of collective action, in contrast to the disempowered individualism of ‘small actions’ at the national level Addresses the individual as a member of a community, as opposed to a citizen of the planet Speaks peer-to-peer rather than [...]

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Sarah Hartley from the Manchester Evening News left a nice comment on my post about parking stories. We’ve had exactly the same experience this week with a story about police parking. More of a universal than parochial issue perhaps! I especially like the headline on this story I commented back that I wasn’t using parochial [...]

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Yesterday a colleague asked me what crowdsourcing was. So I chattered on about pothole maps, and crowdsource maps, pertrol and CD prices. As I was talking I realised that on the surface a lot of the subject areas seemed pretty mundane. Not the kind of thing you would win a pulitzer for. Later on in [...]

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After listening to a panel discussion on local journalism Jay Rosen says that the UK is two years behind the US when it comes to collaborative journalism. It got me thinking about why. Jay was one of the panel at the 7th Journalism Leaders Forum held at the Department of Journalism. The topic for discussion [...]

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