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- Fake Steve Jobs on the future of digital media
Forbes magazine journalist Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, has given an entertaining keynote here on the last day of Web 2.0. I think - although I may have missed someone - that he’s the only big media staffer to be given time on a stage during the event.
What he writes on his blog becomes, [...]
- Marking up the NUJ’s new media verdict
I laughed when I saw m’fellow j-blogger Paul Bradshaw had also been annotating a print-out of the NUJ’s Shaping the Future report - the product of their commission on multi-media working.
First, his picture and mine, right, proves the paperless office remains a myth, even among those of us paid to be webheads - [...]
- Congratulations to Planet Ink
Hearty congratulations to my mate Shaun Milne and his colleagues at Planet Ink, who are - I’m certain - continuing hearty celebrations after winning staff magazine of the year at the PPA Scotland awards.
Planet Ink is a young firm set up by Shaun, a former Mirror executive, and his business partner Gerry Cassidy. They’re doing [...]
- Five things the NUJ could do to engage with the web
OK. As threatened yesterday, here are some suggestions on how the NUJ could get more clued-up about what’s happening in its industry. Do leave your ideas in the comments.
1. Fix your print and online publications
Irony of ironies, but your publications suck. Sorry, but nuj.org.uk is a shambles - why can’t I see who runs the [...]
- NUJ and new media: the trouble is, they just don’t know what’s going on
The Journalist magazine finally arrived at Tosh Towers, and its convergence coverage was broadly as bad as expected. Those expectations were already low thanks to the vigorous fiskings provided by the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond and, yesterday, Mr and Mrs Strange Attractor.
I’d actually say this edition’s bout wasn’t quite at silly as the “Witness Contributor” [...]
- NUJ: is it “hypocritical” to remain a member?
It would, you’d imagine, take something remarkable to unite commentators from the Telegraph and the Guardian. Yet my union - the National Union of Journalists - might just be managing it.
Some backstory: my regular reader will recall that, last year, the NUJ got into a terrible pickle over a proposed code of conduct for citizen [...]
- More frank news coverage
More plain-spoken news coverage, this time with an immortal headline.
- Death of the Scottish press
Tim Luckhurst paints a depressing picture of the Scottish quality press in today’s Independent on Sunday:
"For the first time in 200 years, Scotland does not have its own
quality newspaper. Neither The Herald nor The Scotsman is a national
paper these days. They are both impoverished, eviscerated shadows of
their former selves."It’s not just going wrong at the [...]
- Calling it as your readers would
Is priceless robust language in a Paisley Daily Express story a huge lapse - or a masterstroke that reaches out to readers?
- The 50,000th edition of the Guardian*
From Alan Rusbridger’s piece commemorating the paper’s milestone:
"In our times news is as saleable and merchantable a
commodity as soap … The world is
shrinking. Space is every day being bridged …
Physical boundaries are disappearing; moral boundaries must speedily
follow suit … What a change for the world! What a chance for the
newspaper!"
[It is] such a friendly thing [...]
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