By Mindy McAdams
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The Associated Press is touting something they call “1-2-3 filing.” It reminds me of Bloomberg’s model (developed, what, 20 years ago?) and more recently, the BBC News online method. But derivative or not, it makes darned good sense. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explained the new model at the World Association of Newspapers conference on [...]
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Good writing remains one of the stalwart needs in the journalism field.
Read this in the context of slashing the number of editors that stand (often belligerently) between a story and the audience.
The layers of editing newspapers lavish on stories have long been regarded an essential safety net. [...]
My friend Alf Hermida worked for BBC News online for many years, so please listen up:
It is time to stop talking about repurposing and instead to start a discussion on how to re-imagine journalism.
Alf’s been noticing that too many so-called online journalism textbooks spend too many pages discussing a practice that is just plain bad [...]
Let’s think about programming today. Or scripting, if you will.
To go beyond static pages of text and images online, you will need at least a little programming. One reason why I advocate for everyone to learn at least a little is that if you bog down your newsroom’s expert programmer with too many trivial tasks, [...]
I’ve been pimping free WordPress blogs as the way to get started online for journalist bloggers, journalism educators, and students for months now (ever since I migrated this blog to WordPress, in fact). Most people will be content (even happy) with a free blog hosted at WordPress.com. (Real geeks, on the other hand, can download [...]
Tear down the newsroom and remake it in the image of digital reality — that’s what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has done, according to Shawn McIntosh:
… we had to address our newsroom’s core structure. The AJC and ajc.com had to become faster and more nimble. Having more than a dozen desks and departments devoted to specific [...]
Some interesting numbers from a survey conducted in June/July 2007 in Britain and Ireland by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), reported at Journalism.co.uk last week:
63 per cent of respondents were not working increased hours and nearly three quarters of journalist[s] were working the same shift patterns as before.
Of those working longer hours, under half [...]
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