I stumbled upon this utterly hilarious Storify article under the hashtag #traintales which encompasses all the live-tweets made by a comedian who overheard a conversation on a train. If you have some time to kill I’d definitely give it a read here. Although neither participants were journalists it shows a great form of journalism. There’s…
What Crisis?
There’s only room for one crisis at a time in the news and journalism world and with a vast amount of crisis to choose from in the current world climate, it is inevitable that what is top news one day, drops from the headlines the next. Of course, news that shocks the world such as…
Technology, Technology, Technology
Whilst the printing press is pretty much in its dying days and the world turns to digital, all we have to blame is technology. But why does anything need to be to blame? That insinuates that it’s a bad thing and personally I don’t think it is. It is simply a sign of the times….
The Future Is Here
“Content curation is a the art of finding, verifying, collecting, organising, adding value and presenting existing content, resources, media or information on a specific topic, theme or issue for a specific audience or need,” – Robin Good If the future of journalism is our hot topic, it cannot go un-discussed that the main element of…
True/False?
Microblogging is pretty common place these days, with the most popular being of course, Twitter. In 142 characters you can write a miniature blog, a news update or even an opinion piece. There are other popular microblogging sites including Tumblr and Pinterest however, for a journalist there is nothing more useful than Twitter. Even the…
You won’t beleive what happened next…
As the everyday person now has the tools and the power to be online journalists, there are endless supplies of articles and stories that will inevitably end up on social media. However, as you scroll through your news feed, it’s not uncommon to see a large majority of articles that are in fact… clickbait. These…
Sharing is…
300 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute and every day 7000 hours of this is news-related. (1) YouTube is all about ready to change the face of Journalism, whether you want it to or not, whilst the need for professional journalists slowly decreases. How many times has a video that appears on an…
‘That’s my photo!’
It’s not surprising to us anymore, the immanency and speed in which Twitter creates content for modern journalism. It can give the public an idea of the aftermath of an event and sometimes even gives main stream media something to go on. But with this fast-paced way of gathering news, there are some legal issues…
Journalizm Speak 