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Category: Journalism

  • Newspapers before focus groups…

    In the 1840s American poet Walt Whitman was a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, running the Daily Eagle. Before Paul Lazarsfeld came up with the focus group, here’s how one of Whitman’s editorials described the relationship between journalist and reader: “We really feel a desire to talk on many subjects to all the people of Brooklyn;…

  • Ian Reeves

    A blogospheric welcome to former Press Gazette ed, and good egg Ian Reeves – I’ve added him to the RSS and the links (btw it’s M-o-n-C-k – people died to win that extra ‘C‘). Ian’s promising to vlog (pron. vee-log/vuh-log/ver-log?), and is after criticism. Well, we do criticism out here. But constructive criticism? That’s consultancy!

  • RSS

    In an effort to share more, and using the new xfruits site (HT: JD Lasica) I’ve rolled up my RSS subs (all 236 238 and counting) into one big feed you can just subscribe to. It’s on the left. There’s a couple of quirky subs in there (my folding bike, for example) but otherwise I…

  • Reporting Tony Blair: inaccuracy or partiality?

    How do you get this: “Tony Blair says his belief in God played a part in deciding to go to war in Iraq. The Prime Minister tells ITV1 he prayed over the difficult decision. Tonight the startling insight into how Mr Blair’s faith influenced Britain’s part in ousting Saddam. So was it holy war?” ITV…