Online storytelling

I bought the Observer at half nine on Sunday night on a break from a massive traffic jam on the M4. In the interests of being honest about my news consuming habits, I bought it for Food Monthly – I wanted Nigel Slater’s Christmas recipes and to see what tone they were going to take [...]

Baby P, Facebook and contempt of court

Yesterday, while looking for a link for a story I came across a Facebook group identifying Baby P.
There’s been a lot of between-hack speculation about why he and his parents can’t be named – after all, the social workers and the doctors have all been named and shamed, so why not the people who really [...]

An unformed theory

I still haven’t really worked out what I think about this… so I’m posting some thoughts to see if you lot out there can assist me in formulating them.
There’s a lot of talk about new business models, about the market not caring if we make money, about there being no right to a job in [...]

Some links while I gather my thoughts

Joining the debate on Joanna Geary’s post about news not needing journalists and checking out the BBC’s news offering for their younger audience on the back of what I’ve written about the under-25s and newspapers has started an unwlecome chain of thought about what news is and who really wants it.
So while I’m working out [...]

Reinventing the wheel

Too many news groups, it seems to me, are bent on creating their own version of free-to-use technology our of some misguided ‘keep-it-inhouse’ policy.
It’s an example of the battle between the proponents of the link economy and the companies that still think using other people’s software or linking to external content is a bad thing.
We’re [...]

How many 25-year-olds you know buy a newspaper?

A thought:
I hate to admit it, but newspapers as they exist today have probably had their chips.
Maybe not tomorrow, or next month, or even next year – but it’s coming. Why?
Well as Ryan Sholin demonstrates, the newspaper buyers of the future don’t buy them. A weekly publication, maybe. A daily newspaper, when they can get [...]