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  • The courage of Marie Colvin
    by Jonathan Baker | Wednesday 22 February 2012, 17:37
    Fifteen months ago I stood in St Bride's Church with many other journalists for a service to commemorate all those in the news business who had lost their lives in conflict. The principal speaker was Marie Colvin. There were several...
    Category: Editorial


  • Google's new privacy policy: where's the real debate?
    by Charles Miller | Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:04
    Next week, Google's new Privacy Policy will come into operation, despite the efforts of the Electronic Privacy and Information Centre to force the US Federal Trade Commission to outlaw it. What's new about the new policy is that it applies...
    Category: Internet


  • Be paranoid - protecting sources in the digital age
    by Stuart Hughes | Monday 13 February 2012, 16:14
    A journalist's right to protect the anonymity of their sources is a principle enshrined in the law of many countries. As the European Court of Human Rights ruled in one notable case, "protection of journalistic sources is one of...
    Category: Ethics and Values


  • Pinterest: test driving the latest self-expression engine
    by Charles Miller | Friday 10 February 2012, 16:57
    Last week Liz Heron, social media editor of The New York Times, told a London conference she was looking closely at Pinterest, implying that it might somehow be added to Times journalists' current activities on Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest is...
    Category: Internet


  • Tea with the Free Syria Army, and our government minder
    by Cara Swift | Tuesday 7 February 2012, 17:22
    BBC News producer Cara Swift tells the story behind Jeremy Bowen's reports from Zabadani, a rebel-held town in Syria: After so much time in Gaddafi's Tripoli last year, I became used to being herded onto a government bus and...
    Category: World Affairs


  • My tabloid work wasn't journalism - just entertainment within pre-defined narratives
    by Richard Peppiatt | Monday 6 February 2012, 13:46
    Public figures may rightly have complained to the Leveson Inquiry about weeks of looking from inside their homes to see reporters camped along the driveway, but, as any coalface hack would care to add, it's even less fun huddled on...
    Category: Ethics and Values


  • Print and broadcast media converge on mobile
    by Charles Miller | Friday 3 February 2012, 15:48
    Is the Manchester Evening News still a newspaper? I only ask because I don't think Paul Gallagher - talking to news:rewired on Skype from Manchester - mentioned anything about a newspaper. He's head of online at the paper and his...
    Category: Multimedia


  • The New York Times' evolving social media strategy
    by Charles Miller | Friday 3 February 2012, 13:32
    The New York Times uses three principles when deciding how its journalists should use social media: do it strategically, be different, and strive for meaningful engagement with the audience. That was the message from Liz Heron, social media editor of...
    Category: Internet


  • BBC Radio York
    by Angelique Halliburton | Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:38
    How do you find a story if you're in a news patch where big stories don't break every week? If you're on the news team at BBC Radio York - covering North Yorkshire - then the answer is through...
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  • Journalists need a workable definition of 'the public interest'
    by Phil Harding | Friday 27 January 2012, 13:22
    What exactly is journalism in the public interest? It's the most important question in journalism today. It's a question which lies at the heart of the Leveson Inquiry. It's a question which is hotly disputed, and to which there seem...
    Category: Ethics and Values


  • Social media training is getting results for the BBC
    by Chris Walton | Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10:11
    BBC News and The Huffington Post are easily leading the way worldwide at "social distribution", according to Newswhip, an innovative start-up company that monitors which news stories are spreading fastest through the social web. It's clear that BBC News has come...
    Category: Internet


  • The BBC must apply usual journalistic standards to race stories
    by Hugh Muir | Monday 23 January 2012, 14:55
    First, the pat on the back. When the BBC asks "Are we doing as well as we ought in terms of covering race and immigration?" it distinguishes itself as one of the few media organisations in this country that would bother...
    Category: Ethics and Values


  • We need more nuanced reporting of race from the BBC
    by Max Wind-Cowie | Monday 23 January 2012, 11:46
    There are few topics of conversation as certain to turn ugly and emotional as quickly as that of race. We have, in our society, a paucity of dialogue and vocabulary to describe feelings of identity, ethnicity and belonging. So we...
    Category: Ethics and Values


  • Google Hangouts - a new tool for journalism?
    by Ramaa Sharma | Monday 23 January 2012, 10:06
    Skype it's not... A Google Plus Hangout, for those of you who don't know, is a video conferencing facility within the Google+ platform which allows up to ten people to talk to one another in the same space at...
    Category: Internet


  • Aggers not out after tech breakdown, thanks to Skype
    by Adam Mountford | Friday 20 January 2012, 13:28
    This is a guest blog by Adam Mountford, producer of Test Match Special: The Test Match Special team is not always known for its technical prowess. It is true that Christopher Martin-Jenkins once tried to make a phone call with...
    Category: On Air



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