Labour spinners for a start. Damian McBride and Derek Draper were certainly foolish to even consider their plan for a blog to spread smears about Tories (Sunday Times et al) but completely mad to discuss the plot in emails. It does not take much brain to understand that emails are just about the worst medium [...]
As I get back into blogging, I am slowly going through my favourites blogs to find out what I have been missing. Kristine Lowe pointed me to a recent and interesting post by Adam Tinworth on why media gets community wrong. He writes:
You either care about your readers, or you don’t. Creating forums, and then [...]
Things happen but it is difficult to see how the Telegraph came to post a blog story on the levels of postal voting in the Ealing Southall by-election the day before polling.
As any journalist who has spent a few hours panic revising before a law exam knows electoral law is tough on [...]
More like a suicide note than a newspaper. My first reaction to the redesigned Independent on Sunday was so adverse, I sought a Second Opinion before writing more. If anything, it was more critical than the initial impression. "I thought the front was an ad wrap-around but it is the front," said SO.
"A [...]
Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian new readers’ editor (ombudsman) is to start a blog about issues for the paper and its readers, she tells us in Comment is free. This is great and should open up a conversation with readers which, at times, will undoubtedly be difficult.
That is probably why she carefully describes it [...]
My Telegraph has gone live this week and it is looking like one of the most interesting ideas around in developing newspaper communities. Registered readers have their own blog, a personal page for saving articles and collating comments, and an easier way of posting comments on Telegraph blogs.
Shane Richmond, the communities editor, is promising more [...]
Winning the Webby award for the best newspaper website for the third consecutive year is a great achievement for Guardian Unlimited. The others on the shortlist were the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
The New York Times won the Webby for the best business blog with its Deal Book, [...]
Coverage of events like the Virginia Tech shootings, the London transport bombings and hurricane Katrina would not be complete without a rush to predict the end of news as we know.
Robin Hamman at his Cybersoc blog put it like this yesterday:
The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look [...]
It’s not a blogwar, but more a blog skirmish as the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond sallies forth from Victoria to harry the Guardian in its Clerkenwell redoubt. Not surprisingly the Telegraph has taken exception to Peter Wilby’s robust criticism in Media Guardian on Monday which detected a “whiff of Kulturkamf” .
Richmond’s return of fire is concentrated [...]
Guido Fawkes the blogger who dishes the dirt on politicians has reacted strongly to a post on the blog of Tom Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East, today. Fawkes, who is also known as Paul Staines, says legal letters went out at 12.30pm and suggests the post by Watson has been removed.
4pm [...]
