Posts under ‘journalism’

I stood up in front of a room of PR people last night… and survived. Only joking. I was asked by the CAPSIG organisation to offer a view on digital media. Below is the presentation, which probably need a bit of context. It was centrally around the challenges that we as a publisher have faced [...]

I have written a few posts in the past year or so on the state of journalism in the wake of the recession and burgeoning free digital content. There was plenty of navel gazing and head scratching that has gone on and continues in the trade (I currently have 106 bookmarks on my delicious account [...]

Latest in irregular series on the state of journalism
I managed to attend two events in the same week run by the organisation NESTA. After being less than complimentary about last Monday’s Reboot Britain event (see last post) I was somewhat concerned about Friday’s News Innovation. I had no reason to worry. This was an ‘unconference’ [...]

Our company is now, as with most of the media industry, truly ensconced in a debate over the value of editorial content. And by value I mean price. Media leaders and commentators are awash with words and opinions on the dire effect of the current recession and changes in our consumption of news on high [...]

Here’s a round-up of random slides and pictures taken during the Web 2.0 event earlier in the month:

In some ways reading the book What Would Google Do? was the perfect accompaniment to my departure from San Francisco last week. It sets out to describe the enormous changes that our near-on instinctive use of the web have already heralded, and more importantly, where it points to the future. All with a central [...]

Continuing series on whether I have a future career or not
The US is absolutely awash with coverage on the so-called “death of newspapers”. They reflect genuine fears which were voiced to me on my trip over to San Francisco last week – concern that was focused by locals on whether their beloved San Francisco Chronicle [...]