Another day, another former colleague… or two. Yesterday I quoted my old boss at the New Statesman. Today it’s Jon Snow, Channel 4 News presenter and Charlie Beckett who now runs Polis at the London School of Economics and was…
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Twitter complements, supplements and enhances newsgathering. Not bad for 140 characters.
I’ve put together some thoughts on the impact social media can have on conventional newsgathering over at the Press Gazette. Using an example from my days working at Channel 4 News and drawing on an interesting post by Austrian radio…
Stephen Fry Attacks ‘Rubbishy, Cheap And Offensive’ Remarks… His Own
Stephen Fry has had a busy few weeks. Apart from appearing on our TV screens every Sunday night (and various points in between) he’s campaigned against the Conservative Party’s association with a right-wing European parliament grouping and was a prominent…
Channel 4 News Theme Like You’ve Never Heard It…
…unless, of course, you were watching last night. Jon Snow and Krishnan Guru-Murthy invited Mercury nominees, Led Bib, into Studio 6 for a bit jamming. Half way through the band’s line-up changes – Jon on keyboards and Krishnan on guitar. “Rocks…
When Is The Best Time To Publish Online?
Larry Weber thinks he knows. In his latest book Sticks & Stones: How Digital Business Reputations Are Created Over Time and Lost in a Click, the co-founder of PR giant Weber Shandwick says that if you are posting a video…
Here’s Why Twitter As Glorified RSS Misses The Point
If you simply use Twitter to pump out a stream of headlines and links from your news website, you miss the opportunity to do things like this: channel4news: http://twitpic.com/bbe8l – As the floodwaters lap about his feet, Krish bravely presents…
What We Learned About Online Video This Week
From YouTube to the iPlayer via newspaper sites offering moving pictures, the digital landscape for video already looks well-established. But four years on from the moment we went from Dial-up Britain to Broadband Britain, we still have much to learn.…
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Five Ways News Organisations Should Use Twitter
Rule nine of the Twitter playbook says don’t talk numbers. The only person who cares how many followers you’ve got is you and this craven attention-seeking is likely to backfire – followers soon stop following. Sod rule nine. For now, at least. I want…
Iran’s Internet Revolution: The Backstory
Twenty-three million interent users, with a growth rate of 48% year-on-year and 60,000 active bloggers. Yep, we’re talking Iran. A third of the nation is online and, seemingly, another third is on the streets. These figures, sourced from the Open Net Initiative, are no…
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