Peter Preston puts forward the idea of a broadband licence fee to pay for jouralism in his Observer column today. Whatever the initial reactions — mine is favourable — it is something which deserves extensive debate.
How to pay for journalism in the future in the UK has become mired in the similar but different debate [...]
The plan is that fairly quickly Suffolk Post (I have not mentioned the name of the local news and info site before) will employ journalists. The first will probably be freelance but before any can be recruited there will have to be income and that means advertising salespeople.
But the site (you don’t even need to [...]
This week I find Jeff Jarvis, in his Guardian column, is articulating one of the issues that has been bouncing around in my mind for the past couple of months. It is about journalism’s basic form, the story, and how it is proving inadequate.
I have been developing plans for a local news site so have [...]
There are a lot of suggestions around that that the business models of traditional print media hinder their launch into online products. So with the internet business IAC behind it, Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast should look a lot more promising than many.
IAC has a string of internet sites including Exite, Smiley Central, Vimeo and [...]
The description of the person needed for an internship at the St Louis Post-Dispatch looks like “the job description for a 21st century journalist”, says Alfred Herminda who uncovered it.
Audio, video and stills are all part of the job as well as the “ability to write cleanly and create engaging, informative blog entries, captions, web [...]
Yesterday Tony Blair met Wallace and Cromit, welcomed the prime minister of Lithuania, welcomed the prime minister of the Slovak Republic and made a speech on the role of the media. His official spokesman held two press briefings giving Blair’s views on Iraq, Scotland, the EU constitution, intelligence, the 2012 Olympics, discrimination law, the BAe [...]
The ejection of a reporter for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, from a baseball match for blogging should should concern journalists in the UK, says Roy Greenslade.
He points out that attempts to restrict press freedom in the reporting of football have mostly affected photographers. Celtic tried to licence photographers and, in 2004, an [...]
The value of the web in providing evidence to back-up stories is being demonstrated by the Guardian this week. Yesterday and today lead stories by David Leigh and Rob Evans on secret payments to secure arms deals with Saudi Arabia, have been accompanied by panels pointing readers to the web site for source documents and [...]
The habit of public figures trying to wriggle out of an embarrassing comment by claiming "I was misquoted" has become suddenly more dangerous. The Guardian’s response to England cricket captain’s claim that he had not used the word "Fredalo" was to put an audio extract of the interview on the web.
The story began [...]
I am following the debate in the US on the future of ultra-local (or hyperlocal) news with great interest. Like Howard Owens I feel it is a new term for something which has existed for a very long term and that it does have a future on the web. In response to an article in [...]
