Content summary: Two podcasts recorded at The Future of Journalism – Ethics in Journalism panel discussion in Amsterdam on June 28, 2006, organized by the Club of Amsterdam and supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The first podcast recorded the presentations made by each of the three panelists; the second is the open…
Heading off shortly to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s office in Amsterdam for the Future of Journalism / Ethics in Journalism panel session organized by the Club of Amsterdam. I’m speaking on that panel and participating in the open discussion. Imagine: a PR guy talking about ethics and journalism, alongside journalists, to an audience with…
Here’s a good example of a mainstream medium that ‘gets it’ concerning its journalists blogging. The Daily Telegraph’s news editor Shane Richmond has posted the Telegraph blogging style guide: […] that we send to our writers when they first start blogging. It’s very long for a blog post but I’m sure…
Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I’m talking about plagiarism: Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s own, whether deliberate or accidental. Accidental plagiarism is usually the…
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post was this: […] Most PRs and journalists add little value…
It is a self-regarding conceit of journalism that we are the dogs for whom public relations furnishes the lamp posts, says John Lloyd writing in the Financial Times. In a jaundiced view of the relationship between journalism and PR in politics, Lloyd’s “The Truth about Spin” in Friday’s FT presents…
I can’t imagine how I missed Time for the last post, a story in the Financial Times last month (I read the online paper daily) – a lengthy commentary on blogs, blogging and bloggers. It’s not the usual mainstream media blog-analysis guff. Written by Trevor Butterworth, it’s a sharp and…
De Tijd newspaper of Antwerp, Belgium, will soon become the world’s first newspaper to publish a digital version on ‘electronic paper’ which is automatically updated during the day. From a report in Tech M&C: […] Instead of buying your daily paper, from April 2006, 200 subscribers will be able to…
