This evening I spent an hour subbing one piece of copy for The Linc’s website. Not because it was spectacularly bad, but because the HTML formatting was just horrendous.
The solution basically involved me having to go through and strip all the existing HTML code from the article and replace it with stuff that actually made [...]
Recently I wrote about how the Lincoln School of Journalism was still getting it wrong when it came to blogging — something I’d already pointed out during the summer.
In the comments on that post, Dave Lee wrote: “Blogging – and online journalism as a whole – at Lincoln has been seriously lacking.” I can personally [...]
I wrote recently about the last two articles that would go up on The Linc’s website in 2009. In it, I included some statistics: since September 14th there were 225 articles posted, of which 95 were news.
The sheer number absolutely amazes me. But I am greatly saddened when I take a look at the online [...]
I absolutely have to disagree with Andy Hickley’s argument that hyperlocal journalism wouldn’t be useful because the “big” stories already get covered by the established media.
I particularly take issue with his contention that:
It seems like a lot of hassle for issues that often barely qualify as information.
Who’s making the judgement about what’s important [...]
I just saw this post on Jon Slattery’s blog about the “Guardian Club”, and immediately thought “hardly anyone’s going to join that.”
That was my immediate reaction, and it wasn’t really about the “club” at all. Instead, it was my ‘eureka’ moment about paying for news. Or rather, not paying for “general” news.
I read almost all [...]
