Here’s the latest answers to some questions - this time relating to these predictions for 2012: Q: What are the advantages of “stream” as an interface for news website homepages? The main advantages are that it’s very sticky – users tend to leave streams on in the same way that they leave 24 hour news channels on, or keep checking back to
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Here’s another collection of questions answered here to avoid duplication. This time from a final year student at UCLAN: Blogs are often based on niche subject areas and created by individuals from a community. Do you think mainstream media outlets are limited by resources to compete? Or are there signs they are adapting? I think they are more limited by
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Here’s another set of questions I’m answering in public in case anyone wants to ask the same: How can broadcasters benefit from online communities? Online communities contain many individuals who will be able to contribute different kinds of value to news production. Most obviously, expertise, opinion, and eyewitness testimony. In addition, they will be able to more effectively distribute parts
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I’ve been meaning to write a post for some time breaking down all the habits and hacks I’ve acquired over the years – so this month’s Carnival of Journalism question on ‘Hacking your journalism workflow’ gave me the perfect nudge. Picking those habits apart is akin to an act of archaeology. What might on the surface look very complicated is simply
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Another FAQ: What good examples of mobile reporting have you seen? It’s hard to say because the fact that it’s mobile is not always very visible – but @documentally’s work is always interesting. The Telegraph’s use of Twitter and Audioboo during its coverage of the royal wedding was well planned, and Paul Lewis at the Guardian uses mobile technology well
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Another series of questions I’ve been asked – with my answers, published here because I don’t want to repeat myself… 1. You have written that people read blogs and other user generated content because they trust the person not the brand; they link or contribute to that content because ‘a journalist invested social capital’ and trust is related to their
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Here’s the latest in my attempt to answer questions publicly so that I can lazily point people to the answers when they ask them again. These are from a Norwegian student at London Metropolitan University: Do you consider yourself a journalist? Why? Yes, when I produce journalism. That is: finding newsworthy information and communicating it to others. I find G
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I seem to have lost the habit of publishing interview responses here under the FAQ category for the past year, but the following questions from a journalist, and my answers, were worth publishing in case anyone has the same questions: Simon Rogers, Editor of the Datablog, said that he thinks in the future simply publishing the raw data will become
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Questions from a UCLAN student on paywalls, published here as part of my FAQ section: 1.A tabloid’s cover price barely covers the distribution costs, showing all profits are aquired through advertising: Given that The Sun & Daily Mail still sell 5million copies between them, how much do you think making companies advertise across two platforms (print and online) has damaged the
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These questions were submitted to me in advance of the next AOP meeting, on ‘Microlocal Media’, and have been published on the AOP site. As usual, I’m republishing here as part of my FAQ series. Q. How can publishers compete with zero-cost base community developed and run sites? They can’t – and they shouldn’t. When it comes to the web,
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