January 30, 2009 – 5:47 pm
An interesting new blog has just started, based in New York’s Greenwich Village and specialising in Aid. We are promised exposes of those who are collecting money but not helping the poor, as well as praise for those that are. The blog, Aid Watch, is by William Easterly who is Professor of Economics at New [...]
January 30, 2009 – 5:23 pm
I wrote in the Crikey e-mail today about some forthcoming cuts and redundancies at News Limited.
Since then the boss (Jonathan Green) has reported on his blog that the magic number they are cutting may be 800.
I don’t know where he got that number from. My contacts haven’t put a figure on it. But the boss [...]
January 30, 2009 – 11:57 am
This is a bit of a meta-post, because it is about how blogging changes the way journalists work, prompted by this interesting article which reports on a survey of journalists who blog, asking them whether it has changed the way they work and their relationship with audiences. It has.
The response was incredible—coming from 200 journalists [...]
January 29, 2009 – 6:21 pm
Jonathan Este, the man who is running the Future of Journalism project for the journalists’ union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, has an interesting article over at Inside Story. He suggests that we may be about to see a return of the media moghul, and he quotes some more optimistic than usual analyses of [...]
January 29, 2009 – 3:01 pm
UPDATE: They’ve flushed it.
Oh my goodness me. Take a look at the front page of the Age website.
The story is about Google having to (ahem) wipe a picture of a man sitting on a backyard dunny from its Streetview service. But The Age hasn’t wiped it! The Age has splashed it! (Puns intentional).
The story reveals [...]
January 29, 2009 – 11:45 am
The ethics of hoasting, as seen by a Jesuit. This piece on the Eureka Street website by consulting editor Andrew Hamilton is worth a read.
January 29, 2009 – 10:43 am
UPDATE: THe National Union of Journalists disputes Greenslade’s analysis.
An interesting post by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade after he visited the Trinity Mirror Group (publisher of the Birmingham Post, Birmingham Mail, Sunday Mercury and Coventry Telegraph) in its new multimedia newsroom in Birmingham. Greenslade says he was a sceptic, particularly since the move had involved the [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:08 am
A couple of weeks ago I met Matt Abud, who has worked in media development in Asia for the past few years, and is now studying at Monash University. He was telling me about the use of social media to report from Gaza, where, as we all know, mainstream media have been largely excluded. (As [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:04 am
Extreme heat caused my computer to have a melt-down yesterday. There are disadvantages, after all, to having a writer’s garret in the roof.
This prevented me from reporting that the editor of the Newcastle Herald, Rod Quinn, was not at his desk in Newcastle yesterday or the day before, and he has reportedly been sighted in [...]
January 28, 2009 – 8:32 am
There isn’t much room for humour in newspaper land at the moment. It tends to be a miserable place. Thank Gawd, then, for the blitz spirit of our colleagues in Britain. Journalism.co.uk has put together this amusing list of 30 things you might miss in a world without newspapers.
Kitty litter liners, fish and chip wrappings, [...]
