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The new rules of journalism
The new rules of journalism, from Mike Magee of The Inquirer: Rule 1 Totally ignore PRs. The PR profession is deader than the journalistic trade. What place is there for an agency PR person when all the vendors throw up press releases instantly copied by serried ranks of “data gatherers” so cutting out the middle…
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Reporting suicide
Bridgend, a Welsh town of around 40,000 people, has been making the news, and the local MP, Madeleine Moon doesn’t like it. “Absolutely everything I’ve seen from the description of Bridgend as a ‘death town’, ‘suicide town’, talking about suicide ‘cults’ is absolutely disgraceful and has actually created additional risk for young people,” she told…
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Emotions and journalism revisited
A while back we hosted a conference to promote the work of colleagues at Bournemouth University on emotions and journalism. In the afternoon there was a session with Derek Draper which I followed via Martin Moore and posted here. Outgoing Dart Center boss Mark Brayne took issue with me, and in the interests of fairness…
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Arguing against Nick Davies
British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms…