Category Archives: industry

Braindump -owning up to ownership

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 … Continue reading

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It’s mine ya’hear. Mine. All mine: Ownership and innovation

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, … Continue reading

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The long, long, long tail of digital revenue models

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 … Continue reading

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The newspaper loyalty phone

  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 … Continue reading

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Jay Rosen: The UK is two years behind the US

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 … Continue reading

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Interesting events for Digital Journalists

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 … Continue reading

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Press Gazzette: Managing the new media rush.

I got a mention in Press Gazette this week thanks to Graham Holliday asking my view on “handling the increased time demands of producing new and old media”. The piece also has views from The Sun’s Graham Dudman and offers … Continue reading

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Models for 21st Century Newsrooms

Paul Bradshaw has been doing some work on “a number of models around the news process, newsgathering, interactivity and business models.” The results are fantastic. I particularly like his ‘news diamond’ concept. Go and take a look at the kind … Continue reading

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