Novice and 'deep dive' journalism books
Which journalism books would you pair up for a novice reader and a 'deep-diver'?
Topic
journalism
A collection of 34 issues
Behind Local News and the hyperlocal challenge.
The Behind local news conference was a chance to see the local news industry put its best foot forward. But also think about where community media fit.
Don’t postmortem journalism. It’s not dead. Fix it.
In the aftermath of the Trump win many in the media are looking inward to
understand what went wrong. But is it too soon to write off journalism as a
failed project?
In the very short time we’ve had to get used to the idea that Donald Trump will
The connected middle class: Ofcom and civic internet use
OFCOM have released their Adults’ media use and attitudes report for 2015
[http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/research-publications/adults/media-lit-10years/]
. It’s a report that is always worth a read through. This is the ten year
anniversary edition with a good deal of the content around the release
Oborne and the fetish for old school journalism
Like many in the media industry I’ve been confronted with a wall of coverage
around Peter Oborne’s resignation from the Telegraph
[https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph]
. I read his piece when it came out but have sat on my thoughts. That’s mainly
because I can
Light the flaming torches and stand back: Are you a good leader of your social media mob?
I’m pulling together my yearly online journalism ethics lecture. It’s the
fifth-ish lecture on this module (some previous ones online
[http://digidickinson.net/?s=ethics]) and the fast-moving nature of this stuff
means I’m really starting from scratch but I always go back to previous ones to
On #adviceforyoungjournalists
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Is more than 100 likes on Facebook news?
Occasionally we get emails asking if we can forward ‘writing opportunities’ to
our journalism students. This week it was for student news site The Tab
[http://blog.tab.co.uk/].
For those looking to take up the opportunity, there’s a handy guide for those
asking the question ‘what is
Elephants and MOWSUC's - questioning the future of media
When I think about where media is going, I think about elephants.
For the longest time digital was the elephant in the room.
Now media, and journalism in particular, accept the elephant is there. So we
don’t ask ‘why can’t we do what we’ve always done?’ (a:
Ebola Zombie image hoax: A useful reminder of the value of reverse image search
Update: This is an insanely popular post on my blog in terms of people searching
for ebola zombie. Even if the picture wasn’t the thing that made you search for
Ebola Zombie, I think I can say with some certainty that any report you’ve read
of ebola zombies