There was an interesting report from Broadgate Mainland released recently detailing the way that financial journalists are starting to use social media – especially Twitter – to source information. Whether they’re looking for story angles, spokespeople, or just taking the temperature on a story – many, many journalists are turning to social networks for answers. [...]
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Mark Jones is Global Financial Communities Editor for Reuters News and is one of the journalists responsible for making that news organisation more ‘social media friendly’. In the latest in a series of interviews with journalists who are taking traditional media into new media, he talks to Mark Hanson about his role, plans for the [...]
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Trushar Barot is a senior broadcast journalist within the User Generated Content hub in the BBC’s multimedia newsroom and plays a key role in harvesting the knowledge and skills of the BBC’s vast audience and involving them in the organisation’s output. He will have a specific role as the editorial lead during the General Election [...]
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Yesterday was the last time the print edition of the Technology Guardian will appear. That’s a tragedy. When it was announced that the print edition would cease I wasn’t happy, but shrugged it off as being grimly inevitable in the current economic climate. But then I read Charles Arthur’s apology/explanation/boast Where can I find Guardian [...]
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In an increasingly small online world, people are becoming more and more conscious about their behaviour on the internet. People have been fired, sued and divorced because of how they behave online but all of this begs the question: should we alter our behaviour for the online world? There’s a near-constant stream of etiquette guides, [...]
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