Tag Archives: Must-read online journalism

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 24 June-1 July

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. ‘Is there a better way of doing this?’: Johann Hari responds to plagiarism accusations

2. Media Standards Trust calls for inquiry into Johann Hari’s Orwell Prize

3. #su2011: New online open newsroom a hit for Swedish newspaper

4. Centaur Media scraps print editions of Design Week and New Media Age

5. Orwell Prize Council begins investigation into Johann Hari

6. #su2011: Forget hyperlocal, the future’s ‘hyperpersonal’

7. Mea culpa? Johann Hari apologises for ‘error of judgement’

8. Seven jobs at risk as Scottish newspaper publisher goes bust

9. #su2011: iPad creates new demand for evening news

10. Bloggers showing ‘plenty of interest’ in writing for HuffPo UK

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 18-24 June

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. How to: record phone interviews on iPhone, Android or landline

2. Web apps v native apps v mobile sites: a guide

3. BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to leave for ITV

4. MailOnline reaches new record for monthly browser figures

5. Rusbridger: Guardian digital-first strategy will involve ‘significant’ job cuts

6. Paywall rises on FT’s ‘flexible’ iPad and iPhone web app

7. Foreign Office in massive U-turn on World Service headline

8. US newspaper publisher Gannett to lay off 700 staff

9. ITV breaches Ofcom product rules with coverage of river service

10. Sunday Times website scoops six Online Media Awards

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 11-17 June

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. BBC developing new iPhone app for field reporters

2. BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten vows to protect World Service from cuts

3. Bahrain to sue Independent over ‘defamatory’ articles

4. Economist reveals download numbers for iPhone and iPad apps

5. Local ad network Addiply secures investment to take business ‘to next stage’

6. Guardian announces new ‘digital-first’ strategy amid losses

7. BBC puts Television Centre up for sale

8. FT web-based iPad and iPhone app a ‘wake-up call’ to publishers

9. Sunday Times apologises to John Prescott over false quote

10. Journalism students travel to Poland for newspaper’s social media experiment

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 4-10 June

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Ten fantastic apps, tips and tools for recording audio

2. Twitter users face prosecution if they breach injunctions, warns attorney general

3. FT looks to bypass Apple charges with new web-based iPad app

4. Trinity Mirror to cut 90 editorial jobs at Daily Record and Sunday Mail

5. Internships are a mix of exploitation and privilege, says Ross Perlin

6. ‘Stunned’ NUJ in talks with Trinity Mirror over Daily Record job cuts

7. Samira Ahmed to leave Channel 4

8. John Bercow calls the Daily Mail a ‘sexist, racist, bigoted, comic’

9. WordPress rolls out Twitter and Facebook comments options

10. News Corp outlines ‘freemium’ subscription model for Australian


The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 28 May-3 June

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism

2. Mail Online expected to become world’s most popular news website

3. Twitter’s new ‘follow’ button encourages readers to follow reporters

4. How the five journalists with the greatest online influence use social media

5. Five great journalist portfolio and CV websites

6. Bureau of Investigative Journalism to launch new blog later this year

7. #newsrw: Heather Brooke – ‘How do any journalists in the UK do their job?’

8. Visualisation shows the topics New York Times journalists are writing about

9. How newspapers can use Facebook more effectively

10. Complaint against i newspaper for ‘misleading’ claim of no celebrity gossip upheld

The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 13-20 May

The top 10 most-read news stories and blog posts this week on Journalism.co.uk were:

1. Journalists increasingly using social media as news source, finds study

2. Sky News to stream live coverage of UK supreme court

3. How to: liveblog – lessons from hyperlocal, regional, and national news sites

4. Sun loses high court bid to name footballer in affair story

5. YouTube launches memorial channel for journalists

6. Growing master list of all UK journalists on Twitter #UKjourn

7. Jenni Russell wins 2011 Orwell Prize for Journalism

8. Nieman Journalism Lab launches ‘future of news encyclopaedia’

9. Telegraph: Lawyers apply to access to Sun journalists’ emails and texts

10. Al Jazeera journalist tells of ‘terrifying experience’ in Syrian detention

Must-read online journalism articles


Shane Richmond at the Telegraph has put out a call for links to the best articles about online journalism on the web.

Which articles do you often refer back to? Which ones are you always forwarding to people or referring to in speeches and seminars? Which are the articles that changed your mind, shaped your thinking or simply summarised a complex issue

Recommend them here and we’ll make sure he gets the links.