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Novice and 'deep dive' journalism books

Which journalism books would you pair up for a novice reader and a 'deep-diver'?

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.

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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

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The connected middle class: Ofcom and civic internet use

OFCOM have released their Adults’ media use and attitudes report for 2015. 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 reflecting changes since 2005. As you may have guessed from

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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. I read his piece when it came out but have sat on my thoughts. That’s mainly because I can trust to those better qualified than me

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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) and the fast-moving nature of this stuff means I’m really starting from scratch but I always go back to previous ones to see where my thinking was.

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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. For those looking to take up the opportunity, there’s a handy guide for those asking the question ‘what is news?’ News is what people

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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:

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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

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Elite Media trolls, banter and journalism

The Guardian’s James Ball has an interesting , and suitably search-bait-headlined, comment on internet trolls that’s worth a read. The last par is the kicker: The transformative promise of the internet was that it would shift control of the media agenda away from an elite group of editors to

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An updated timeline of journalism in a digital age.

Early last year I updated my timeline of journalism events in a digital age and I thought it was time to take a look and see what needed to be added. So I’ve updated it including the following: I’ve added **the appearance of Buzzfeed in 2006: **Who knew

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Am I responsible for a shitty freelance market?

Yesterday I posted about using Medium as a platform for my second year students. In passing I mentioned that Contributoria also looked like a good bet. That led to a brief exchange with Sarah Hartley (editor at Contributoria) which also included Leeds Met uni lecturer Karl Hodge, about how the

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Who takes the risk in changing journalism?

I’m spending the next few days in a research symposium about journalism. Lots of great people with interesting things to say about the changing face and challenges for journalism. I’m not going to go into too much detail about what’s being discussed -that’s partly because a

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What do journalists use instagram for?

Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand I’m not one for sharing proverbs or pithy statements; ones that would look great on a poster with some Kittens or shared in a cursive font on Facebook. But the lines above popped into

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Argentina's Clarín gets to grip with convergence : exploring multilingual social media

The wonders of Twitter, tweetdeck and google translate meant that I got an interesting insight into the way Clarín, the biggest newspaper in Argentina, is approaching the challenge of a converged newsroom. What caught my eye was a the visualization of the ‘new editorial cycle’ that journalism news site ELDSD

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Restarting news: Will Journalism have much say in what journalism becomes?

Prof George Brock has an interesting post as a prelude to his talk at the international journalism festival in Perugia which is well worth a read. He ponders an incomplete list of things that might shape what comes next in journalism. There are a couple that stand out for me.

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5 steps to turn you into a journalism coder (maybe)

I’ve been thinking alot about coding. Staring at some code for an hour and then realising that it’s not working because you spelt slider wrong will do that! So it was nice to see a piece on the Guardian website, Head of Cardiff J-school Richard Sambrook has been

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Who broke Moyes? Breaking news in a multi-channel world

So Moyes has gone. But does, as some have claimed, this mark another first for twitter? Like him, loathe sport, I think the whole thing offers an interesting case study to ponder for journalists of all genres

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Is the BBC really a useful benchmark for online journalism?

his semester my Monday mornings are spend in the company of our Foundation Degree students and this morning I was talking about Online writing. I spent a bit of time talking about headlines and how important they are in the digital world. They’re not just the start to a

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Essential vitamins for your journalism

It’s that time of year again where I find myself doing a tour of various rooms and buildings introducing myself to new students. By a quirk of timetabling and course structures I don’t get to see many of them to teach until later in the year. So I

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Diagnosing the noble disease - how we treat journalism in the 21st century.

This is the original script to a short presentation I gave University of Northampton’s ‘Imagine Journalism in Ten Years’ Time‘ mini-conference chaired by Kevin Marsh, and organised by John Mair. Other speakers included: Professor Jay Rosen; Matt Andrews who has his talk here ;Teodora Beleaga, who has her slides

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Potholes make for good content. No.Really!

I always make a point of looking over the local and free papers when I visit a place, it’s a nice snapshot of a place. So, visiting the out-laws in Plymouth over new year gave me a chance to catch up with The Herald One story that jumped out

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Ivory tower dispatch: Fast and slow journalism and innovation must die

The Al Jazeera English newsroom – Not available as a google app (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A diverse range of things in the ivory tower this week. Balancing personal and professional social media identities was still on the agenda – the mantra was you might not use it but your boss might want

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The commercial blindspot:Funding news

The idea of the weekend – a £2 levy on broadband that can be used to pay for journalism. There are almost 20m UK households that are paying upwards of £15 a month for a good broadband connection, plus another 5m mobile internet subscriptions. People willingly pay this money to a