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Journalism Celebrity Deathmatch: Bloggers vs Columnists
Partly inspired by Tom Whitwell (and once more cribbing from Martin Belam), I had a look at the Google Reader RSS subscriber numbers for the blogs and columns that the Times (to its credit) provides here. The big caveat – it is only Google Reader. So who wins? The results are impressive for the bloggers.…
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Tackling journalistic innumeracy
Talking of RSS, the Royal Statistical Society is running a FREE workshop for journalists to help them get more out of the statistics in the public domain – “whether from government, other public bodies or the private sector.” Editors – should you send hard-pressed reporters? Well, equipping reporters with the skills to knock down flip…
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Britain’s Top Ten Journo-Bloggers
Yes, shameless list-porn. Buoyed up by hitting 300 subscribers in Feedburner, and approaching 30,000 unique users I was hit by an attack of vanity (over-compensating for my plummeting Technorati ranking) and decided to try and list the top 10 UK j-blogs. Pride, of course, always comes before a fall. So, I followed Martin Belam’s Herculean…
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Journalism: writing as a call to action
I’ve written before, with no great originality, about the tension between the desire of journalists to inform and the competing desire of many of them to see that information produce action. Of course, it isn’t just journalists who feel this tension. Ancient orators felt it too: When Aeschines spoke, they said, “How well he speaks.”…