Having had a day to “browse and snack” on the new Sunday Times and Times websites, what’s the feedback so far? What’s the reaction to the new editorial layout, multimedia changes and approach to journalism behind a paywall? Starting with those bloggers who were given a sneak preview of the sites the night before they […]
As live events go, election night has to be one of the biggest opportunities for journalists and news organisations to get tweeting, liveblogging, mapping and more. Here’s our guide to the best online coverage of election day and plans for tonight’s results, as we look at what journalists’ can learn for future live events and […]
Could greater integration of a news website with the features of your chosen browser encourage you to read and view more of what it publishes? The Financial Times and the Independent have both developed “extensions” for Google’s browser Chrome. By installing the Independent’s extension, which can be accessed from an icon in your browser toolbar, […]
Do journalists need to learn to code? Probably not, but those who can are likely to find themselves quickly snapped up by news organisations with interactive and data teams. I have no grand hopes of learning to code properly, but I would like to feel a little more comfortable with the language and learn more […]
The venerable old day of leg-pulling and pranking is upon us again, and British news institutions are doing their bit for the fun. Some better than others, it must be said. Here is a short round-up of some headline hilarity from the web. The Guardian went big and bold with a mock-election campaign designed to […]
It can now be reported that legal firm Carter-Ruck tried to prevent the Guardian from reporting MP Paul Farrelly’s question about UK oil trader Trafigura in Parliament, but it will no longer pursue its attempt. Given this news, and that Trafigura and Carter-Ruck are trending topics on Twitter this morning, it seems timely to publish […]
In a break with the traditional conference format, Open09, a new event from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), will let attendees set the agenda beforehand. The free event aims to ‘explore, inform and create change in the Digital and Creative industries sector’ by running a series of group discussions and barcamps on relevant topics, […]
Promoting its new book out today, the Telegraph discloses that a lack of army supplies for soliders fighting in Afghanistan motivated the whistleblower who leaked the unredacted MPs’ expenses data earlier this year. The Telegraph will continue to protect the identity of its source, although it named another intermediary – former SAS major John Wick […]
Finally, in its new duck-adorned book, the Telegraph reveals how much it paid to the source for the MPs’ expenses data: £110,000. It doesn’t really sound that much (and much less than speculated figures) when you consider that the group pays Boris ‘chicken feed’ Johnson £250,000 a year for his weekly column. Assistant editor Andrew […]
Martin Belam picks up on a blog post from No Rock And Roll Fun, which comments on the case of the BBC’s recent £45,000 payout in damages plus costs to the Muslim Council of Britain for comments made by a ‘panelist’ on Question Time. The panelist was not named in the Telegraph’s report (nor the […]