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- The courage of Marie Colvinby Jonathan Baker | Wednesday 22 February 2012, 17:37Fifteen 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, 14:04Next 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 ageby Stuart Hughes | Monday 13 February 2012, 16:14A 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 engineby Charles Miller | Friday 10 February 2012, 16:57Last 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 minderby Cara Swift | Tuesday 7 February 2012, 17:22BBC 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 narrativesby Richard Peppiatt | Monday 6 February 2012, 13:46Public 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 mobileby Charles Miller | Friday 3 February 2012, 15:48Is 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 strategyby Charles Miller | Friday 3 February 2012, 13:32The 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 Yorkby Angelique Halliburton | Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:38How 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...Category:
Journalists need a workable definition of 'the public interest'by Phil Harding | Friday 27 January 2012, 13:22What 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 BBCby Chris Walton | Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10:11BBC 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 storiesby Hugh Muir | Monday 23 January 2012, 14:55First, 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 BBCby Max Wind-Cowie | Monday 23 January 2012, 11:46There 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, 10:06Skype 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 Skypeby Adam Mountford | Friday 20 January 2012, 13:28This 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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- The courage of Marie Colvin
- Google's new privacy policy: where's the real debate?
- Be paranoid - protecting sources in the digital age
- Pinterest: test driving the latest self-expression engine
- Tea with the Free Syria Army, and our government minder
- My tabloid work wasn't journalism - just entertainment within pre-defined narratives
- Print and broadcast media converge on mobile
- The New York Times' evolving social media strategy
- BBC Radio York
- Journalists need a workable definition of 'the public interest'
- Social media training is getting results for the BBC
- The BBC must apply usual journalistic standards to race stories
- We need more nuanced reporting of race from the BBC
- Google Hangouts - a new tool for journalism?
- Aggers not out after tech breakdown, thanks to Skype
- A triumph of investigative theatre
- News priorities: Why is the US not for us?
- Happy birthday to us
- Should journalists want Google to get personal?
- Why I left Facebook
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