Tag Archives: Networked journalism

Mar 3 2013

Saving Journalism: how far we have come in five years and where we must go now

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[[Don't forget to sign up for our free annual international journalism conference on April 5th - details and tickets here]] These are the notes from a talk I gave to a mixture of Spanish academics, journalists and students at the … Continue reading

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Jan 18 2013

In praise of snow porn

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Lots of frozen white stuff has dropped from the sky upon (southern) England (and Wales). This is big news. Not big enough to push the appalling events in Algeria off the top of the bulletins, but nearly. And as for … Continue reading

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Dec 8 2012

Glib one line answers to massive complex questions about the state of journalism

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                          It’s that time of year when student journalists send people like me a set of questions as part of their long-essay research. The best ones have actually … Continue reading

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Nov 2 2012

What it’s like to tell a story without social media and why I will never do so again (Guest blog)

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Imagine doing your journalism without any social media. Imagine your newsroom is actually restricted by law in what social media it can use. That was the situation for Austrian radio correspondent Nadja Hahn who has spent the last month at … Continue reading

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Oct 19 2012

Reith Reinvented: BBC boss explains how new newsroom will ‘allow us to do what we do better.”

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“How many of you would be comfortable explaining quantitative easing to a friend in the pub?” In the room full of LSE students, not a single hand went up in reply to the question posed by Mary Hockaday, Head of … Continue reading

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Oct 13 2012

Ten (at least) Ways That Putting Social Media At The Heart of The Newsroom Improves Public Service Service Journalism

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Nadja Hahn is a business correspondent for ORF, Austrian Radio and an EBU Research Fellow here at Polis. She is researching the public service value of social media. This is her take on a visit to the new BBC integrated … Continue reading

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Sep 17 2012

Society, ownership and networked journalism: Polis at the PICNIC in Amsterdam

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These are the notes from my talk to the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam. You can watch video of my talk and the subsequent debate with Storyful’s David Clinch on the European Journalism Centre’s website. The slides are on Slideshare. David Clinch from … Continue reading

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Sep 7 2012

The Village Cycle: how political news changes when it speeds up

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Danny Boyle might have shown it thus at the Olympic Opening Ceremony in one of his nostalgic tableaux of British history: A delivery boy in hobnail boots wobbles over the village green on a heavy framed bicycle, laden down with … Continue reading

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Jul 12 2012

Media Change – Majestic and Modest (Guest blog)

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“I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention when I tell you that; it is my firm belief that, one day, there will be a telephone in every major town in America.” Alexander Graham Bell’s words … Continue reading

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Jun 29 2012

Does being networked change journalism? (guest blog)

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I have been preaching the gospel of networked journalism for years. I think that public participation and interaction are now a routine part of all kinds of news media and it’s also become a regular fixture in our teaching about … Continue reading

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