The good folks at CNN have posted a cut down version of the disscussion about Mobile and journalism that I blogged about a while back. Now you can see me talk bobbins as well as read it here. It’s in two parts:

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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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The price of transparency is £5. At least that’s what it will cost you to see the whole of this clarification at the Northumberland Gazette. Perhaps it’s an unforseen problem of paywalls or just an oversight on the part of the paper. But it does highlight an area for some rethinking. Particularly from the PCC who are [...]

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Image by amos1766 via Flickr I thought as a writer you could just get paid to write I heard that phrase in the cafe to day as I was working on lectures for next week. It was a small group trying to get their heads round arts council funding and realising that despite all the [...]

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CNN’s ireport has posed an interesting question Faced with declining readership and a worsening economy, many newspapers are grappling with whether to stop the presses. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News recently closed its doors, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online-only format. How does this affect you? Do you read the newspaper every morning [...]

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I’ve been catching up with some reading (that “mark all as read” option only kept things at bay for a while). I started with Alison Gows take on the an event at my Uni last week. Mark Skipworth, executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, came in to talk about the tele’s digital transformation. [...]

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The second of my new year convictions is Print organisations will need to open source some or all of their content management system if they want to stick with corporate templates. Why? Because it hampers attempts to upskill journalists and softens the brands that are supposed to be so valuable Let me explain (ahh, go [...]

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Yesterday I set out four new year convictions. Things that I thought where going to be important this year because, well, they had to be. First was Broadcast thinking will be the heart of successful print models this year. In the past I’ve been pretty hard on broadcast. I think they have been slow to [...]

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