It was another day at the coal face of the cutting edge of news today. I don’t suppose it’ll be very long before no one is doing this anywhere.One day, I’ll be able to tell all the young folk at the digital news dissemination hub, or whatever, that we used to put the words in […]
How to fail at fashion and social media all at once…
Ritual abuse – they told me she was crazy.
Where are all the role models for women in newspapers?
I’m rather pleased to be featured on All Media Scotland. I’ve written about citizen journalism and how ‘real’ journalists should work with them. (We need a new phrase here – the opposite to citizen journalism. Suggestions: professional journalists, trained journalists or sell-out journalists?)Anyhow, apart from a little showy off that’s not the point of this […]
Newsroom dramas – what they really need
Have you seen The Newsroom? It’s an American drama where a news anchor decides he’s going to make the transformation from Ron Burgundy to, well, someone brimming with integrity and with a fixation on The Truth. But the truth is a notoriously flexible thing, so clearly he’s on a hiding to nothing. The fact that the anchor […]