Category: Journalism
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Blogging primer for journalists
Here’s a good example of a mainstream medium that ‘gets it’ concerning its journalists blogging. The Daily Telegraph’s news editor Shane Richmond has posted the Telegraph blogging style guide: […] that we send to our writers when they first start blogging.…
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No compassion for plagiarists
Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I’m talking about plagiarism: Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s…
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The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post…
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The real symbiosis between PR and journalism
It is a self-regarding conceit of journalism that we are the dogs for whom public relations furnishes the lamp posts, says John Lloyd writing in the Financial Times. In a jaundiced view of the relationship between journalism and PR in…
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Blogging past, present and maybe
I can’t imagine how I missed Time for the last post, a story in the Financial Times last month (I read the online paper daily) – a lengthy commentary on blogs, blogging and bloggers. It’s not the usual mainstream media…