Tag Archives: Shane Richmond

The evolution of blogs, put simply

By Julie Starr | Published: February 9, 2009
Shane Richmond over at the Telegraph has done a nice job explaining simply what blogs are and how they've evolved.
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What journalists need to know about SEO

By Julie Starr | Published: December 30, 2008
This is a useful read for any journalist coming to terms with writing for the web and why that means understanding keywords and search engine optimisation. It was written by Shane Richmond, Communities Editor for telegraph.co.uk, for the British Journalism Review. The “Gotcha” headline on a Sun front-page splash about the sinking of the General Belgrano is one of the most famous, or infamous depending on your taste, in the history of British journalism. Yet no web producer with any experience would consider a headline like that today.
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Finished? No, it’s the story so far

By Julie Starr | Published: March 25, 2008
Shane Richmond (the Telegraph's Communities Editor) does a good job revisiting the issue of what 'finished' looks like in the fast-paced world of digital publishing. In print, a story wasn't published until it was 'finished': written, edited, edited again, sub-edited, sub-edited again, proofread and so on. Only then did we hit 'send' and hand it over to the printers - at around 9.30pm, the deadline for the first edition of a daily newspaper.
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Why ‘most popular’ doesn’t mean ‘most important’

By Julie Starr | Published: January 12, 2008
Shane Richmond at the Telegraph (London) gives hope to those in despair about the lightweight nature of stories that often fill up 'most viewed' and 'most emailed' boxes.
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