This comment, on a post by Charles Arthur, sums up the most frustrating thing about working in a newsroom:
Once a story has run in one mainstream outlet, it’s put up to conference *before* it’s given to a writer to check. Once it’s been sold to conference, the news desk can’t nix it without looking silly, [...]
A month or so ago there was a discussion on the Underscore mailing list about the evils (or otherwise) of web advertising.
I chimed in with some thoughts that have been bubbling in my head for a while now, which relate to online journalism and its relationship to online advertising:
Print media is - has always been [...]
Last week the Telegraph got in touch, saying please could I write something about iPhone hacks to tie in with the imminent iPhone launch in the UK. Sure, I said, be happy to. Can you do 1200 words, they said. No problem.
The article appeared today: Apple v the iHackers, and it has been cut back [...]
Until recently, most Gawker bloggers were paid a flat rate of $12 per post for twelve posts a day, with quarterly bonuses adding to the bottom line; these bonuses could be used to buy equity in the company, which took two years to vest. Now, Denton is moving to a pay-for-performance system. He has always [...]
It’s back (again) kids, and this time it’s tumbly. Rising Slowly is re-re-(re? sorry i’ve lost count)-born as a new-mangled “tumblelog” (oh those hip kids are going to love me now).
Seriously, though, tumblr is an extremely impressive little service. Posting stuff is very fast and very easy. Ace.
I’m quite amazed by the Guardian’s new print-your-own newspaper, G24. In size and format it’s almost exactly what I’ve been wanting to see a national newspaper do for years now; it’s what I hoped the Guardian or Independent might become when they switched from broadsheet to tabloid.
It’s much smaller than a tabloid (A4, of [...]
Last week’s relaunched Observer was a welcome change in many respects, but I was disappointed by the colour magazine (imaginatively called “The Observer Magazine”). Everything in it was the same old Sunday magazine crap. I want something different.
You’d have thought that an upmarket Sunday newspaper with a largely intelligent, educated audience would have the guts [...]
When I heard about the Buncefield explosion on Sunday, the first thing I did when I got to the computer was check BBC news.
But the second thing I did was look for photos tagged with Buncefield at Flickr; and the third thing I did was look for links tagged with Buncefield at del.icio.us.
These [...]
