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Laboratory sites are re-inventing journalism on the run
Tweet For the past fifteen years, an argument has been reverberating in and around journalism. The digital era, argued one school of thought, is a total re-set: nothing will – or can – survive of the...
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The protection of journalists requires metadata surveillance to be challenged...
Tweet A few weeks ago, I could only have given the haziest definition of what “metadata” is if I was asked. Thanks to the electronic surveillance disclosures of Edward Snowden, the word is heard...
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One easy, transparent way of making accuracy visible: open sourcing
Tweet This blog has occasionally murmured that serious news media with an interest in being trusted had one simple way of demonstrating their reliability with the facts. And that way was offered by...
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An incomplete list of things which are going to shape the next journalism
Tweet People who ponder journalism’s prospects have turned cheerful. Not suddenly, but over the past few months. The evidence that there’s capital, generative energy and signs that some digital...
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The New York Times and innovation: are they asking the right question?
Tweet The New York Times did a kind favour to the rest of the news media when, amidst the storm provoked by the sacking of its editor Jill Abramson, we got to see a report on the paper’s lack of...
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Metadata surveillance: the issue which won’t be allowed to disappear
Tweet This blog returns to what I hope will be more frequent publication after an unintended break with a small item of good news. How often do blog-writers throw out appeals, queries and rhetorical...
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The importance – for experiment – of not being embarrassed
Tweet As news media have to re-think much of what they do by experiment, popular media should be making use of one big, built-in advantage. They don’t embarrass easily. Hidden away in this account of...
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“Shield laws” are back – but watch the drawbacks
Tweet The annual conference of the Society of Editors heard two arguments this week for “shield laws” to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources including a pledge from the Culture...
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Nick Denton: a quotation to add to the collection
Tweet I think it is hallway of the Chicago Tribune building which is decorated by quotations on journalism and the freedom the press carved into the stone walls. Many are inspiring, most are sonorous...
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Metadata: a reckoning is still due
Tweet The UK government lost a court case on electronic surveillance the other day. I hope that it will be defeated in at least one other case to come. Faithful readers of this blog will know that...
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A few clues to how Facebook should think about news
Tweet Among the mainstream online/print news media, anxiety about Facebook has turned to aggression. The attacks are the product of fear. Facebook is a large enough corporation to generate headlines...
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Zuckerberg: news ought to be ‘authentic’ and ‘meaningful’
Tweet No great surprise that the election of Donald Trump was a tipping point for opinion about Facebook. Now people are really asking the questions about the influence of social networks and the mix...
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Cut clutter, clarify and care about every word: Robert Silvers, RIP
Tweet Much has been written about Robert Silvers, one of two founders of the New York Review of Books, who died the other day. I never met Silvers but almost feel as if I knew him, despite the fact...
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Two faces of Facebook
Tweet This morning’s headlines are about the Facebook’s progress in connecting your brain to their social network. Their scientists, led by the ex-head of the American defence research agency Darpa,...
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Facebook: reactive apology and re-inventing the wheel
Tweet Watching Facebook wrestle with ageless questions about privacy, free speech and fair play rules for democratic elections is a little bit like watching a group of students produce an occasional...
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