CMS2009: Live no-refresh updates: Twitter chat for MediaGuardian Changing...
Today is the MediaGuardian’s Changing Media Summit 2009. You can find the programme at this link. There are a few Twitterers about – possibly including the event’s chair @ruskin147 aka BBC technology...
View ArticleFriday 9.30am GMT: ‘Twinterview’ with @RuthBarnett, Sky’s new Twitter...
Ruth Barnett has caused a bit of a stir in online news with her new job: as Sky News’s Twitter correspondent. Using her Twitter account, @RuthBarnett, Barnett sources news stories on Twitter and feeds...
View Article‘Twinterview’ with @RuthBarnett – Sky News’ new Twitter correspondent
From 9.30am (GMT) @journalism_live will be interviewing @RuthBarnett, Twitter correspondent for Sky News, about her new job. Follow the conversation here, and please drop in your own questions with...
View ArticleAllMediaScotland: Charles Fletcher is new chair of MediaWise
Charles Fletcher, “a former Sky News correspondent, involved in the setting up of a radio station in South Queensferry, has been appointed chair of the media ethics charity, MediaWise,”...
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Why the PCC didn’t appear at Frontline event and Steve Hewlett’s take on UK...
The increasingly heated UK press regulation debate continued this week. Yesterday saw former PCC chair, Sir Christopher Meyer, appear on BBC Two’s Daily Politics Show, to defend the body, with...
View ArticleAndrew Stroehlein: “Welcome to a world without foreign correspondents”
“We’ve all watched the cutting of foreign news budgets for so long that we’ve become almost numb to it,” comments Andrew Stroehlein, communications director for the International Crisis Group, on the...
View ArticleBBC Internet Blog: ‘Microblogging – the Editorial Policy Meeting’
Last week Journalism.co.uk reported on the BBC’s stance on social media use – in particular of Twitter – by its journalists; and the sometimes blurry divide between personal and professional use....
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BBC Internet Blog: Rory Cellan-Jones on life as a mobile reporter
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asks: ‘How has mobile technology changed the life of a BBC reporter?’ Full post at this link. Screeb grab below: Similar Posts: Strictly professional –...
View ArticleFT scoops six prizes at SOPA awards
The Financial Times’ Chinese-language website, FTChinese.com, took the prize for best feature writing at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards last night. The site was one of six winners for...
View ArticleJon Bernstein: What MPs’ expenses tells us about the clash between new and...
The narrative is familiar to anyone who has followed the broader technology industry for any length of time – new triumphs over old. The reality, inevitably, is more complex, more layered, more...
View Article#FollowJourn: @ruthbarnett/Sky News correspondent
#FollowJourn: Ruth Barnett Who? Correspondent for Sky News with a particular focus on online reporting. What? Recently added Twitter correspondent to her list of duties. Where? @ruthbarnett. Contact?...
View ArticleJournalism Daily: Digital plans for Big Issue and the Baltimore hoax
A daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site. You can also sign up to our e-newsletter and subscribe to the feed for the Journalism Daily here. News and features: ‘I’m an...
View ArticleSignals intelligence journalism: using public information websites to source...
Useful information is more widely and easily available than ever and the increasing amount of online data released by the government and others can help improve the originality of journalists’ work....
View ArticleBen Bradshaw’s speech in full: BBC has probably ‘reached limits of reasonable...
Ben Bradshaw’s speech from the Royal Television Society’s binnenial convention in Cambridge last night, his first since becoming the British culture secretary in June. In his speech he criticised James...
View ArticleColin Freeman at the Frontline Club: livestreamed here @7pm GMT
Pop back here at 7pm for a livestream of the Colin Freeman event at the Frontline Club. From the Frontline website: “Colin Freeman, who was kidnapped in Somalia in November 2008 and held for six weeks,...
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