Most of the discussion of journalism’s future takes place around technology. There’s very little reappraisal of how we act to present stories and information. It struck me again reading Edward Tufte‘s Envisioning Information. Tufte presents a piece by David Hellerstein from Harper’s in 1984, called “The Slow, Costly Death of Mrs K–.” Hellerstein analyses and…

Overheard at a media bash I recently attended: We get hundreds of applications for every job we advertise. Too many to go through. But we have developed a strategy for dealing with them. Before scanning the CVs, we split the pile in two and chuck half away. After all, you don’t won’t unlucky people working…

What would we know about Iraq without journalists? It might simply be a faceless chamber of video horrors… I have a piece in Press Gazette today on reporting four years after Iraq. But I’m afraid you’ll have to do that old-fashioned thing of physically getting hold of a copy…