December, 2008

More news from the crisis in journalism. Stanford University is re-deploying its famous mid-career Knight journalism fellowships to drive a shift towards innovation and entrepreneurship. The Fellowship website states: “The program is transforming itself in order to serve the needs of journalism and journalists as much in the years ahead as it has in the [...]

A while ago now I wrote this post responding to an article by Dr Sally Young. Now Young has responded, and I have responded to her. Read the comments. I think it is an interesting conversation, and I’m hoping others join in.

The Internet has now overtaken all media except television as a source of news, according to a study by the Pew Research Centre in the United States. The study found that 40 percent of people got most of their news from the internet, up from just 24 per cent in September 2007. More people say [...]

There’s quite a winge going on over at the Newsagents’ blog about the way magazine publishers handle summer.

Great article by Alan Rusbridger on the Guardian’s battle with Tescos, and the way defamation laws limit the amount of information in the public realm.

Yesterday in my post about Radio National I tentatively suggested that a new media strategy for the national broadcaster might mean more than new delivery platforms. That it might mean a rethink of how the content is conceived and created.The point doesn’t only apply to the ABC, of course. The same is true of all [...]

On December 19 near Kings Cross in Sydney a man was detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act. How do we know? Not thanks to the mainstream media, but because of Twitter and the blogosphere, including young media workers who are below the radar of most mainstream journalists. The person who was threatened, [...]

Back to blogging after a few days’ break, and something to chew on for the new year. A few weeks ago I asked the ABC if it would release the figures on Radio National podcasting and broadcast audience numbers. Sometimes you ask and you get. The ABC has released  these figures. So far as I [...]

Journalists, read the comments on my previous post. The story has credibility. It is building on Twitter and in the Blogosphere. Time to show what professional journalists can add! I am presently caught up in family affairs in the lead up to Christmas – but if this hasn’t had some attention by the time I [...]

Can this shocking story possibly be true? I cross post here in the hope that journalists with real resources will follow this up.