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Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show

June 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Editors' pick, Online Journalism

BBC Radio 4′s The Now Show picked up on the now-notorious Daily Mail ‘gypsy/NHS’ poll in the first episode of its new series.

On Saturday June 20 Journalism.co.uk’s John Thompson reported:

“The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.”

“The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question ‘Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue,’ attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition.”

Listen to The Now Show’s take on it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00l6fzl

Tags: BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, daily mail poll, John Thompson, Journalism.co.uk, nhs, online polls, the now show, The Now Show BBC Radio, Twitter, United Kingdom

JEEcamp: Audio from the event

May 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted by Laura Oliver in Events, Journalism

Journalism.co.uk attended the journalism and enterprise unconference, JEEcamp, last Friday.

Reports on the day will follow, including:

Kyle Macrae, founder of Scoopt, on why entrepreunership is the only option for journalists now

James Hatts from London-SE1.co.uk on community and hyperlocal news publishing

There’s already been some great videos, pictures and posts from the event – see Michael Haddon’s round-up, Martin Belam’s posts and John Welsh’s blog to name but a few – but some additional (rough) audio from Sue Greenwood’s presentation on self-publishing platform Sweeble and two panel discussions are below.

Sue Greenwood:

Panel 1 featuring: (to come)

Journalism.co.uk’s own John Thompson (@johncthompson)

Jon Bounds, Birmingham: It’s Not Shit (@bounder)

Sue Heseltine from Birmingham City University

Chaired by Joanna Geary, web development journalist, business, Times Online (@timesjoanna)

Panel 2 featuring:

Dave Harte, economic development manager, Digital Birmingham

Jo Wadsworth, web editor, Brighton Argus (@jowadsworth)

Robin Hamman, Headshift (@cybersoc)

Andy Dickinson, journalism lecturer at UCLAN, (@digidickinson)

Robin Morley, assistant editor new media, BBC English Regions

Tags: Andy Dickinson, assistant editor, BBC, Birmingham, Brighton Argus, Business, City University, Dave Harte, Digital Birmingham, economic development manager, founder, James Hatts, Jo Wadsworth, Joanna Geary, John Thompson, John Welsh, Jon Bounds, Journalism lecturer, Journalism.co.uk, Kyle Macrae, London-SE1.co.uk, manager, Martin Belam, Michael Haddon, Robin Hamman, Robin Morley, Scoopt, Sue Greenwood, Sue Heseltine, Tom Scotney, web development journalist, web editor

Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – use Twitterise to schedule an announcement

October 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Top tips for journalists

News alerts: use Twittertise to schedule a Twitter announcement to coincide with readership peaks and track click-throughs to your story. Tipster: John Thompson.

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Tags: John Thompson, Journalism.co.uk, Twitter, Twittertise

Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

July 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in Journalism, Top tips for journalists

Local reporting: Stuck for a story? Check the national news agenda – there is nearly always a local angle to a national story and it will help your readers to better understand the issues too. Tipster: John Thompson