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This is a personal blog which I update when I have time, generally a couple of times a week.
I don’t get paid for anything I write here and any views expressed here are my own and not necessarily shared by any of my clients/employers, present or past.
The blog is intended to be a focal point for ideas about how the internet is changing the news business and journalism; a small node in a loose network of thousands of journalism-related blogs. Also a point of reference for journalism students I work with and a place to experiment with web publishing – no better way to learn than by doing.
It’s predominantly a links blog with this underlying philosophy: I read a lot about the news business so I figure I may as well share any interesting stuff I come across.
For the most part I come across that interesting stuff through regular reading, casual browsing or chance. From time to time I take a more systematic approach to researching a particular issue.
In terms of fact checking I try to corroborate through two or three different sources, mostly online but also, well, books and sometimes by contacting the folks concerned.
Given time constraints, however, more often than not I just point to or respond to blogposts.
In any case, I attribute and link to information/blogposts I refer to so you can follow up as you wish.
Where I quote verbatim from somewhere else it will be indented like this.
I am happy to be corrected where I’ve got facts wrong, have typos pointed out and hear alternative points of view: please post in a comment.
I use my own name because I prefer to deal with people who use their own name; I find it hard to trust what’s written under pseudonyms (although I appreciate that pseudonyms are a necessary protection for some writers and good, clean fun for others).
This policy, like the blog, is a work in progress.
