Journalisted (or transparency 1)
Tweet I like the idea of the Media Standards Trust‘s Journalisted, an index of journalists with references and links to what they’ve written. Transparency for journalists is occasionally painful but...
View ArticleMoore of MST: this sounds about right
Tweet This piece by Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust in London cropped up in my Delicious clips (which appear just to the right of this post in “what I’m reading“), but it’s so judicious that...
View ArticleRead and enjoyed: Naughton, Moore and two rig-disaster reconstructions
Tweet A miscellany of links. This is a clear and knowledgeable piece of sense about the internet and the future by John Naughton, which gives wider currency to his celebrated image of the imaginary...
View ArticleWeekend miscellany: Wales, bogus trends, death knocks and Google skewering...
Tweet What follows belows is a collection of links worth reading which I’ve rounded up as the weekend approaches. The well-worn rhetoric of the “crisis” in journalism tends to focus on national...
View ArticleThe meaning of local
Tweet Martin Moore reflects on what “local” means when we’re talking about news media, concluding that if new start-ups replace the news organisations of the past they will have be grown from...
View ArticleDr Moore’s churnalism-spotting machine
Tweet Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust has just launched an amusing – if slightly terrifying – device which matches the words of a news story with the text of the relevant press release. Lo...
View ArticleMedia regulation: heat and light
Tweet Debates about the state of journalism “post phone-hacking” occur almost nightly in London. The Leveson inquiry into, among other things, press regulation has begun work. Are any new ideas being...
View ArticleHow many royal charters does it take to fix press regulation? Six, at least
Tweet Any time from this week, we may hear news from the government ministers assigned to solve the conundrum of press regulation. Consultation on one of the many royal charters which have been...
View ArticleBuzzfeed is more likely to regenerate journalism than any number of anxious...
Tweet This post opens with a hat-tip to Martin Moore, who pointed out to me the other day what a remarkable document is the message recently sent to the staff of the viral video site Buzzfeed by its...
View ArticleJournalisted (or transparency 1)
Tweet I like the idea of the Media Standards Trust‘s Journalisted, an index of journalists with references and links to what they’ve written. Transparency for journalists is occasionally painful but...
View ArticleMoore of MST: this sounds about right
Tweet This piece by Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust in London cropped up in my Delicious clips (which appear just to the right of this post in “what I’m reading“), but it’s so judicious that...
View ArticleRead and enjoyed: Naughton, Moore and two rig-disaster reconstructions
Tweet A miscellany of links. This is a clear and knowledgeable piece of sense about the internet and the future by John Naughton, which gives wider currency to his celebrated image of the imaginary...
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How to rebuild local news: a spaghetti-throwing competition!
Tweet The dolorous laments over the ruin of journalism have many variations. Many grieve for what they see as the collapse of “accountability” journalism or investigative reporting. Given the...
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Andy Mitchell and Facebook’s weird state of denial about news
Tweet Andy Mitchell, Facebook’s director of of news and global media partnerships, arrived at the (superb) international journalism festival in Perugia last week to speak about news on Facebook....
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A little (election) manifesto for Facebook
Tweet When an issue starts to surface at literary festivals, you can tell that it’s gone middle-class mainstream. Over the weekend, TV celebrity Stephen Fry recommended that Facebook be classified ‘as...
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Facebook has hit a wall – the people running the company don’t know it yet
Tweet The situation in which the hi-tech giants of the online world find themselves still baffles me. Careful lawyers and executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter gave lengthy evidence...
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