Two very thoughful articles by Steve Outing of PoynterOnline explain in some detail what journalists can learn from bloggers, and vice versa. US focused of course, but every practical point Steve includes in his articles is valid for any blogger in Europe, too. Take a look: What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers: Blogging isn’t just […]
Category: Journalism
A catalyst for the future of blogs
A very good analysis in the Guardian newsblog on the role blogs have played in the Asia tsunami disaster and the long-term catalyzing effect this will have on the significance of blogs in the future: The tsunami may have a profound effect on blogs. These self-published sites have played a huge role in the telling […]
Blogging or ‘horrendous journalism’
My post last Friday with caveats about Microsoft AntiSpyware has drawn the ire of one person who read that post here as well as the one republished by WebProNews. An email today from Anthony Shields begins: Your article, which is also found in an email from WebProNews at their site, is horrendous journalism. That got […]
Breaking news blogger style
Steve Rubel has a very interesting story on a news story that’s not yet a news story (in the traditional sense) but probably will be soon – once the the media pick up on what blogs are already saying. He talks about the posts and comments in blogs about an apparent rift between Hewlett-Packard and […]
Panel discussion: Blogging and journalism
Highlight points from the panel – pictured, left to right: Dan Forbush, Tom Foremski, Jeremy Wright, Heath Row – moderated by Dan Forbush. The panel addressed the impact of blogs on their work, their general view on the value of blogs as a communication channel, and how best to promote their blogs. Tom: Blogs are […]
Separating reporting from propaganda
CNN: The US Department of Defense plans to add more sites on the Internet to provide information to a global audience – but critics question whether the Pentagon is violating President Bush’s pledge not to pay journalists to promote his policies. This will undoubtedly be a lively and protracted debate. My question would be: Where […]
New media could be the saviour for old media
Business Week reports on interesting developments in the newspaper business in France: […] To survive, old-line papers are scouting for deep pockets. Libération found its savior in Rothschild. The conservative Le Figaro, hurt by a 3% drop in sales, was acquired last summer by defense tycoon Serge Dassault for an estimated $1.6 billion. So far, […]
Total engagement with your readers
Earlier this week, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs, commenting on Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro. In the case of Le Monde, they have reader blogs where readers of the paper can blog about news stories they’d like to see covered. Libération has three journalists’ blogs providing readers with […]
Transparency leads to genuine debate
A thoughtful view on what the role of a blog sponsored and supported by the World Economic Forum should be and how the blog should develop comes from Lance Knoble writing in his Davos Newbies blog, in specific regard to the effects of the controversial Eason Jordan affair First, a quick recap for anyone outside […]
UK newspaper launches blog
The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday. Journalist, writer and cigar aficionado Ben Hammersley reports: Sparklines! Folksonomies! Tagging! XHTML Compliant! Accessible! Contemporania! It’s not officially live until next Sunday, and is slightly broken and unfinished in places, but seeing as it’s you, you can have a look at my […]
Blogs and wikis change the dynamics of business
Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece in today’s Financial Times on a new phase of the internet that’s emerging, fuelled by a new class of technologies coming out of Silicon Valley that don’t even have a name yet, but have the potential to be disruptive in their […]
BBC call for ‘citizen journalism’
If TV broadcast networks hope to have a future, they must decentralize and "democratize" their most jealously-guarded public service – placing news production literally in the hands of consumers. So says Pat Loughrey, BBC Director of Nations and Regions, quoted by InternetWeek in speaking on Wednesday at the DVB World 2005 conference in Dublin: [This] […]
The age of media personalization
If the 19th century was the age of the newspaper and the 20th century the age of radio and television, this century will be defined as the age of media personalization, says Reuters CEO Tom Glocer. In a feature in the Financial Times last week, Glocer writes about a simple concept – forget the old […]
Tips for successful media relations
If you’re a PR pro, you have your text books and you’ve done the training on how to relate to journalists and how to handle media interviews. Well, put those things away and take look at some sound advice from David Tebbutt, a journalist in the UK who’s been there, done that and got the […]
An open conversation with Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion
Last Monday 21 March, Shel and I interviewed Steve Rubel for The Hobson & Holtz Report bi-weekly podcast. Steve is Vice President Client Solutions at CooperKatz, a New York PR firm, and author of the Micro Persuasion blog. He is arguably the most prominent and influential blogger in the PR profession either side of the […]
Blogs as ‘editorial innovation’ for mainstream media
Catching up with some neglected RSS feed reading has resulted in a burst of blogging already today. About to take a breather when I came across a post by Suw Charman writing in Strange Attractor about the Blogs in Action seminar in London on 24 March. In her detailed reporting, Suw has done a terrific […]
Mainstream media knows more than you think
BBC News: Newspapers are far from dead, despite the challenge from online news and blogs, media executives have been told. […] The challenge now for established newspaper groups is not just to respond to changes in the consumption of electronic media, but to start profiting from the new ways that audiences access their media. I’ve […]
EPIC update 2015
Is this a vision of the very near future? Brazil, 1984, Blade Runner and The Matrix all rolled up into one? Or perhaps an Elliott Carver-esque future but without the mainstream media (or James Bond)? Whatever you might think of how we all will publish and consume news and information in the coming years, and […]
MSM: ‘Bloggers are here to stay’
I wrote a post the other day that said that mainstream media knows more than you think about blogging and other new-media communication channels. I’ve just read a very good column from last Sunday in The Observer (the online paper, not the blog) by John Naughton, a mainstream media man who clearly does. In his […]
The days are numbered for ‘gatekeeper’ journalism
Journalism is the rightful guardian of disclosure of news and information, and what should be disclosed and what shouldn’t, and has a duty and a right to maintain that position. That’s my interpretation of a very interesting discussion point in John Humphreys’ opening address at the Communication Directors Forum conference on Wednesday evening. The conference […]