In the final of three extracts from the 3rd edition of Magazine Editing, published by Routledge, I talk about the tension between publishing first online, or holding material back for print. Magazine editors worry about topicality. Stories they send to press on Monday may be out of date by the time the magazine appears on Wednesday or Friday. It is no consolation
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Juliet Shaw writes in a guest post on No Sleep ‘Til Brooklands about her experience of fighting The Daily Mail through the courts after they published an apparently fabricated article (her dissection of the article and its fictions is both painstaking and painful). There is no happy ending, but there are almost 100 comments. And once again you are struck
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Here’s a nice idea from Bad Science blogger Ben Goldacre: a repository of news ingredients: A website that gives each news story a unique ID. Any involved party can add / upload a full press release or quote to that story’s page Anyone can add a link to a primary source Anyone can vote these up or down like on
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The third part of the results of my survey of blogging journalists looks at how blogging has affected how stories are researched. As journalists move onto gathering information for a story, the scope of easily accessible sources is made broader by journalists’ involvement in blogs.
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