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This is from Reuter’s newly released Handbook of Journalism, which was recently picked up by Mashable.
Can I break news via Twitter?
As with blogging within Reuters News, you should make sure that if you have hard news content that it is broken first via the wire. Don’t scoop the wire. NB this does not apply if [...]
This blog post prompted me to update this almost forgotten blog of mine.
Last Saturday, I was invited to talk to graduating journalism students from different schools. I was asked to discuss newswriting. But instead of talking about what to do and whatnot, I focused on what lies ahead for these young journos. (Of course, I [...]
Interesting thoughts from journalism associate professor Jay Rosen of PressThink and New York University.
I just finished a course in PR this summer when I stumbled upon Guy Kawasaki’s blog. He posted an alternative way of doing PR, which is doing it on your own. This is based on an article penned by Glen Kellman. Excerpt:
Just the other day a newspaper’s technology editor told me, “It’s just so hard [...]
First off, thanks Dr. Stephen Quinn for citing our experience here in the Philippines.
My prof in convergent journalism, Dr Quinn, wrote a story for the Sydney Morning Herald, titled the On the Beat with Citizen Reporters, where he details how technology has changed the way news is delivered, at least for some organizations.In today’s world [...]
Journalists covering the 2007 mid-term elections are now increasingly using wireless technology to send information back to their organizations.
I remember the first time I was using a Palm-based device that connects to a GPRS phone via Bluetooth, that felt like the future. Now, here we are using it to the fullest.
Today, I wrote a story [...]
Old media (the likes of Time Warner) has hit back on new media (read Google) for its continued violation of its copyright. The CNET article writes:
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War [...]
This piece of news was a surprise. I was just reading through the blogs at INQUIRER.net when I read this entry 572 issues from Current. It read:
Today we printed the last issue of Inquirer Compact, the company’s first venture in compact-format journalism. We had a great ride, but, well, all good things must come to [...]
Tim O’Reilly has recently invited people to consider a proposed code of conduct for bloggers. This was prompted after his talk with Kathy Sierra who had received threatening and disturbing anonymous comments in her blog.
Eventually, this call for bloggers to adopt a code of conduct was picked up by the media and bloggers, including Blog [...]
In my case that’s close to 3 years now since I started. It is actually the same age as my second daughter’s. She’s turning 3 on April 15
Bloggers worldwide celebrated 10 years of blogging, while Catholic Filipinos celebrated Holy Week. But do check New York Times magazine’s timeline of blogging. It reveals that [...]
