Isn’t twitter great (when it’s working). Mark Comerford shared a link to a report on an EU report - no, no, keep reading, honest it’s good (and not about the Irish referendum.)
The report goes under the title of DRAFT REPORT on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union (PDF link) that’s (2007/2253(INI)) [...]

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A number of browser tabs to consume already today - damn the reader. But rather than tag them all to delicious I thought I would give them a bit more discussion (a la Mark and his Daily squibs)
Speaking of things ‘a la’. Richard Titus over at the BBC internet blog has been thinking flattery rather [...]

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Marking has done a good job of getting in the way of things - shows up my inability to multi task doesn’t it - but i’ve been storing up one or two bits to go at thanks to Taboo. So here goes a brain dump on the theme of ownership- sorry
In a kind of last-in-last-out [...]

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From Flickr user Andyi
It’s Carnival of Journalism time and Ryan Sholin steps up to the plate to host. He helpfully suggests a question to chew over for this months meeting of j-minds
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?
Great question?
A lot of people have already posted great suggestions so [...]

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Just got home after ducking out of the Journalism Leaders forum which went under the title “Why isn’t more media translating into more money for mainstream media companies?”
The panelists where Chris Anderson of ‘The Long Tail’ fame, Anton Grutzmacher of Hitwise, Peter Kirwan of the Press Gazette’s Media Money and Rick Waghorn of www.myfootballwriter.com.
Anderson couldn’t [...]

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Forget about the newspaper loyalty card the newspaper loyalty phone is the future.
According to a report in Journalism.co.uk
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) has launched the world’s first ‘newspaper’ telephone to give users instant access to the paper’s online content.
The Nokia 6120 handset features a special DN button that gives subscribers direct access to the [...]

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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 was [...]

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A few work related  events have come across my desk in one way or another that may be of interest.
 First up is the 7th Journalism leaders forum at Uclan on the 16th October. The event, Local Turf Wars Notes from the digital news frontline, includes contributions from:
Andy Mitten, a graduate of the department who, at [...]

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