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Dave Lee: ‘The NUJ is a cowardly union’

Laura Oliver — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:29 +0000

Dave Lee on why he won’t be joining the UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) any time soon.

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Calling all young journos: Welcome to Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists

Laura Oliver — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:00:18 +0000

Journalism.co.uk and journalism blogger Dave Lee are proud to introduce a new forum for young journalists.

The Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists blogging ring (or TNTJ between you and me) is a place for young journalists from across the globe to share their experiences/anxieties/ideas/random thoughts…

To take part there are just a couple of criteria:

1) you must be under 30-years-old
2) you must blog about journalism (for more details on what this entails read Dave’s introduction)

Each month a topic/question will be put up for discussion. Interested parties can register and contribute their thoughts in a blog post, which will then be published on the TNTJ site. Feel free to post away on your own blog too.

You can log in and post your entry for about a week or so after the first post – though there’ll be no time limit on leaving comments.

We’re kicking off with the following: “The biggest challenge facing a young journalist in today’s media is…”

So far we’ve had some great responses, so why not have a read, young journos, or better still post your own.

You can follow updates to TNTJ through Journalism.co.uk’s journalismnews Twitter feed.

For more info or queries contact Dave Lee at davelee.mail@gmail.com or email laura@journalism.co.uk.

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links for 2008-07-16

Laura Oliver — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:31:45 +0000

MediaGuardian: Which? raps advertisers for using digital media to dodge junk food ad ban

Companies such as McDonald’s and Nestle are using mobile and social networks to target junk food ads at youngsters – avoiding a marketing pledge on such advertising.

(tags: advertising digital mobile socialnetworking youth nestle mcdonalds)
Dave Lee/jblog: The bashing together of young journalism heads

Dave Lee suggested a blogging circle of young/new journalists. Journalism.co.uk is looking to host. Suggestions please.

(tags: blogging blogs youth journalism journalists journalism.co.uk)
Uxbridge Gazette: Uxbridge Gazette relaunches website and rolls out community sites

The Gazette is the latest Trinity Mirror title to relaunch with a network of local news sites incorporating local bloggers.

(tags: blogs local trinitymirror uxbridge uxbridgegazette newspapers)
CNET: Google’s US search share nears 70 per cent

Hitwise figures suggest the search engine accounted for 69.17 per cent of searches in the US in June.

(tags: google hitwise search usa)

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Student Journalism Blog: using Google to run your student newspaper

Clare Fisher — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Dave Lee offers tips on how to make the most of simple Google apps – calendar, email and documents – to organize operations at a student newspaper.

Simple steps, which more importantly can be implemented for free.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

John Thompson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:06:08 +0000

Journalism students: read the blogs of journalism tutors, trainers and students. Mindy McAdams, Dave Lee and Paul Bradshaw are good starting points. You will get tips from other pros and can put them into practice in your own training. Tipster: Laura Oliver

Got a tip? Submit it here – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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Breaking news of the UK Earthquake online and off

Laura Oliver — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:44:56 +0000

News of an earthquake that struck the UK in the early hours of Wednesday morning caused a surge in traffic to Sky.com/news with more page impressions recorded on the site at 1am than 9am, the site’s executive producer Julian March writes on the Editors’ Blog.

A similar effect was experienced by the Nottingham Evening Post’s site, HoldtheFrontPage reports, after it posted news of the quake within 30 minutes.

The site saw 1,821 readers visit between 1am and 2am – increasing this to 6,000 by 9am, 20,000 page views and 60 comments on the story – though it’s a shame they appear to have only opened this feature from 6am.

Both great examples of why it’s crucial to break news online – whether a local or national title – and get ‘ownership’ of the story to keep drawing those viewers back.

The BBC’s online and radio coverage was hot on the heels of the incident, though the video below – courtesy of student journalism blogger Dave Lee – suggests their TV news had to play catch up.

(I like the idea of competitive news watching between channels)

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Case study blogs: back-to-front journalism or wider perspective?

Laura Oliver — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:58:15 +0000

The launch of a new blog to help journalists find case studies has been questioned by student journalist and blogger Dave Lee, who says such projects provide case studies representing too narrow a field.

While not directly attacking the Getting Ink Requests blog, Lee is concerned that such groups are set-up and perpetuated by journalists, and as such will only provide case studies representing a narrow section of society.

Lee goes on to criticise what he describes as the ‘”think of story, find case study” process’ saying it leads to ‘[F]eatures to order… There will always be an element of “you’ll do” about it.’

But as Lee offers no practical alternatives for journalists (as one commenter puts it) who are told to find ‘three case studies in 24 hours’ his post has met with some critical reactions.

Lee adds that his gripe is not with the individual journo under pressure, but with the introspective nature of the process, e.g. using personal contacts, particularly those within the industry, to find case studies.

Fair enough, but this is what journalists have always done and that’s not going to change. Regardless of who sets them up, using social networks and blogs to make case study requests will inevitably give journalists access to new sources, increase participation and ultimately give a wider representation of society.

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How to make a blog an e-paper…

Laura Oliver — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:50:38 +0000

(…if that’s what you really want to do)

Using Feedjournal bloggers can essentially pdf their content by putting the feed for their posts into the site’s generator. The result is the blog laid out in a newspaper style, complete with headlines and bylines, you can even make a masthead if you so wish.

Dave Lee has tried it out on his blog and I have to agree with him that I’m not really sure what the point is. The idea of taking a functional online publishing platform and shoehorning it into a ‘traditional media’ format seems counterproductive.

Plus it doesn’t really make longer posts more user-friendly, as, having tried it out on our feed, a long enough post will take up a whole page and find its way to the front of the ‘paper’.

On the other hand the service could be a way for newsletter-style publishers to better link their print handouts with content online. Being able to repackage a blog’s content so quickly could encourage these kind of operations to devote more time to what they do online without neglecting their print operations.

For e-paper fans, however, the forthcoming release of a FeedJournal service for readers, allowing users to select the feeds that make up the pdf’s content, might be more appealing.

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