Last week Journalism.co.uk interviewed Tim Pool and yours truly for a podcast on Meerkat and livestreaming more broadly (I’ve previously written about my experiences with Meerkat here). The podcast is also embedded below.
https://soundcloud.com/journalismnews/are-we-seeing-a-new-dawn-in-live-video
The latest in the series of FAQ posts comes from a student in Germany who is interested in how investigative journalism is affected by the financial situation of publishers, and how it might develop in the next decade. Continue reading
This weekend’s FAQ comes from a journalism student who is writing her dissertation on the relevance of Twitter as a news source. As always I’m publishing my responses here in case anyone else has the same questions. Continue reading
In the latest in the FAQ series, I’m sharing my answers to questions from a trainer in Chile:
The main difficulties in my experience are cultural and technical. Continue reading
Every December Nic Newman asks me and a bunch of other people for their thoughts on the year just passed, and the year to come. This year, it seems to me, has been particularly seminal, so I’m reproducing my responses here.
How many news organisations finally began to write web-native copy: linking and embedding multimedia (often from YouTube, Flickr, Twitter or Vine).
The rise of visual journalism has been the most notable trend of 2014 for me, driven by the algorithms of Facebook and changes to Twitter, and the integration of SMO staff and best practice into news organisations. Continue reading
This latest post in the FAQ series answers questions posed by a student in Belgium regarding ethics and data journalism.
No, I don’t think they do particularly – any more than ethics in journalism differ from ethics in life in general. However, as in journalism versus life, there are areas which attract more attention because they are the places we find the most conflict between different ethical demands.
For example, the tension between public interest and an individual’s right to privacy is a general ethical issue in journalism but which has particular salience in data journalism, when you’re dealing with data which names individuals.
I wrote about this in a book chapter which I’ve published in parts on the blog. Continue reading
More questions from a student as part of the ongoing FAQ series. This time it’s about the role of social media in ‘media freedom’, competition between social media and mainstream media, and credibility of citizen journalists…
Given that media freedom is largely about the legal and political framework in which organisations operate, I’d say social media has had very little effect. An analogy would be asking what effect hammers have had on builders’ freedoms: it’s another tool which they can use, but whether they use it and how depends on what happens to them if they do. Continue reading
The latest in the series of Frequently Asked Questions comes from a UK student, who has questions about big data.
In the same way they always have. Journalists’ role has always been to make choices about which information to prioritise, what extra information they need, and what information to include in the story they communicate. Continue reading
The latest in the series of Frequently Asked Questions comes from a UK student, who has questions about hyperlocal blogging.
It depends on the business model, the wider market, and the individuals involved in the business. Continue reading
Its been a while since I posted a post answering Frequently Asked Questions. This one comes from a student in Holland, whose thesis revolves around the idea that ‘Blogging adds little to journalism‘
I’ve answered this and similar questions in a previous FAQ on journalism vs blogging.
That post and other older FAQs probably give some further answers, but a short answer is: blogging provides an extra space to invite people into your journalism and provide opportunities for them to contribute additional information, suggested avenues of inquiry, etc.
It helps build the relationship between journalist and source in a way that standard formats don’t always provide. Continue reading
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