Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’
The scale of the furore surrounding Johnston Press’ implementation of a new content management system is understandable given the impact on jobs and working practices.
There are generally two types of work ex people who come into newspaper offices… Shrinking violets who sit dutifully and silently while they are ignored, and those who feel they deserve better treatment and aren’t afraid to say so. The latter group will indignantly shuffle up to a senior staff member and demand, “Have you got something [...]
An actual conversation from a real-life newsroom… Staffer: What year are you in at Uni? Work ex: Third year, well I should have graduated last month but I didn’t arrange work placements so I can’t graduate until November… at least I’m doing it now. Staffer: You’re studying magazine journalism – did you work on the [...]
I’m carrying out what is hopefully an interesting experiment, inspired by The Telegraph via George Hopkin, Johnston Press’ SEO evangelist. We have a big screen in the newsroom which is meant to display our website in an echo of 1984′s nightmarish propaganda walls. But we’re now using Twitter aggregation site www.twitterfall.com to filter in tweets [...]
It’s on days like today that I’m glad I work online. A choice error appeared in our print edition (though it was changed on the presses to avoid disaster). A headline about a lucky dog’s stage debut alongside a cute kid shouted: ‘It’s not such a hard-kock life for Lennie’. Oh, dear – we said ‘kock’. It’s sometimes [...]
In the mid- to late-19th century there were over 1,000 daily newspapers in England. Information was scarce and people were as hungry then as they are now for grisly tales of murder and titillating stories from behind the doors of respectable Victorian villas. (Murders in The Times archive 1850-1899 - requires subscription to see full articles) [...]
As part of a much longer Q&A, Sunderland Uni student Josh Halliday (editor of http://www.injournalism.co.uk) asked for my thoughts on the newsroom of the future. Here are my note-form musings on changing roles and job titles. You’ve said before you want to move to a fully-integrated newsroom. How will job roles change here then? (Content curator) And how might this [...]
“So, do you read our newspaper?” It’s a simple enough question, and a predictable one if you’ve been drafted in for work experience at your local daily. Yet it seems to bamboozle almost every student, as if it’s the precursor to some Stasi-style interrogation. In fact there’s no wrong answer, provided you respond like a rational human. [...]
I’ve not seen a live blog of a Premier League clash on a local newspaper site. Most of the live football coverage centres on lower league sides and the occasional FA Cup game. To officially blog from a game you have to be mindful of the Dataco agreement which covers fixtures, results and reporting on England’s [...]
