Changing tools and approaches in local newspapers (UK)
A couple weeks ago Journalism.co.uk commissioned me to write a piece on ‘Changing tools and approaches in local newspapers’. But whereas their mental image was of the evangelical stuff I write on my...
View ArticleLancashire Telegraph and Lancashire Evening Post – more interactive than The...
Blogging recently on Newsquest’s relaunch of its websites, I feel I was a bit harsh on the Lancashire Telegraph… Since that review the site has cleaned up and, more importantly, sped up. But here’s my...
View ArticleHull Daily Mail hyperlocal 'smear' job backfires
Hull – GeneralClassifieds – Notices via kwout The Hull Daily Mail’s article accusing a hyperlocal competitor of having a ‘porn business’ has been misfiring spectacularly over the past 24 hours. The...
View ArticleComplaint over attack on hyperlocal blog upheld by PCC
You may remember ‘investigation’ by The Hull Daily Mail into HU17.net, a hyperlocal publisher that was operating on its patch back in March, and the resulting backlash against the newspaper by...
View ArticleThe best piece of Bad Journalism debunking I’ve ever seen
I’ve just stumbled across Neurobonkers’s blog post The worst piece of drugs reporting I have ever read and wanted to share it here. The post uses an animated Prezi presentation to take the reader...
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