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Rebuilding journalism through building a community platform
Last year, as my job search started to lead back to newspapers and back to community journalism, I started to think about the challenge and how I might meet it. When I wrote that blog post, I got a...
View ArticleTo serve your audience, stop feeding the goat
To transform, local news operations will have to fundamentally rethink what they do and what they stop doing. We know that we have to attract new audiences, deliver new services and find new ways to...
View ArticleICYMI – Gannett at #ONA14: Data-driven insights with Chartbeat
I missed the Online News Association conference last week because I had just returned from Asia speaking at the WAN-IFRA India conference and doing some data journalism seminars with journalists in...
View ArticleFive social media myths debunked
A lot of myths about social media have grown up over the last decade, many of them now so commonly repeated that they’ve passed into received wisdom. Here I tackle five of the most pernicious. 1....
View ArticleOn uncertainty, case studies and the Great Race to be Second
People behave in many different ways that when they are unsure what is expected of them, but one of the most common is to hang back and watch what others do. It’s often a smart tactic. It allows us to...
View ArticleCan comments withstand Google-scale communities?
Not long after I joined the Guardian as blogs editor in 2006, I was at an online publishers event in London. Forefront in my mind was how to build engagement at the scale that we would quickly find...
View ArticleHow Tor failed Social Media 101
There are some companies that appear to be native to the web, not just on the web but of the web. Often these companies were early adopters, building websites whilst others called the web a ‘fad’,...
View ArticleAre Facebook ads good value for money?
I’ve never used Facebook to advertise anything to do with Ada Lovelace Day, but I thought I’d give it a go with a post about Ada Lovelace Day Live, just to see what happened. I assumed that FB would be...
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Zuckerberg’s Magical Garden of Horrors Has Another Bad Day
A dino has dinner. A metaphor for yet another bad day at Facebook. Photo by Mike Bird from Pexels Pick your adjective or metaphor when it comes to Facebook’s current run of horrible, awful, no good...
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Can the ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ fix disinformation?
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Team members assemble a puzzle during the problem solving phase of the “Whacky Relay” at the base track 2 May. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Dennis Rogers) Thank goodness...
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10 Journalism Newsletters You Should Subscribe to, Make that 11
Pamphleteer, WikiMedia Commons I’m closing out this week in a totally meta way in my newsletter: 10 other journalism newsletters that you should check out, well, apart from mine. But I also want to...
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TikTok Explained and an Indie Media Collective in Boston
An unsettled cat on TikTok, Giphy.com How much have you been hearing about TikTok? It has exploded on the scene, and everywhere I turn, I seem to hear about it. What is TikTok? NPR has a really good...
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How to get onto Instagram’s Explore tab
Exploring, by Tom Bullock, from Flickr, Some Rights Reserved Hello new newsletter subscribers! My how your numbers have grown. Topping today’s international media newsletter is a great summary from...
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How ESPN is getting smarter with its Snapchat strategy
Snapchat User, by Blogtrepreneur, from Flickr, Some Rights Reserved Hello dear readers, in today’s international media newsletter, the story that stood out for me was one looking at the success that...
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