The Future of Journalism: a joint Media Alliance & Walkley Foundation initiative

1. Time to take your tablets
(Blog/Opinion)

... this in a number of places, media and tech being among them, live sports blogs, showbiz, comment, etc being others. I have made the acquaintance of a bunch of friendly people on the cricket blog all ...

2. Links for 17.11.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... well-being. “Wealth” – sites that help the reader make or save money. “sex” – well, you know what that is… Click here for the full story: Social Traffic Espionage: 7 Reasons why blogs are vitally ...

3. Let's get engaged (it's a love thing)
(Blog/Opinion)

... on in blogs with the best of what is going on in mainstream news organisations as a way of discounting the blogosphere. Typically it is the bloggers who have long since moved on from that topic of ...

4. Links for 30.10.09
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... expert bloggers who bring an audience with them. Click here for the full story: Matt Skinner: On the blogs crowdources answers to what puts people off people on Twitter: Click here for the full ...

5. News debate? Don't mention it...
(Blog/Opinion)

... the Independent, the Evening Standard to name just three of the UK’s papers and the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,  not to mention a plethora of smaller papers which run blogs and coverage of ...

6. Links for 27.08.09
(Articles/Reading List)

...  Heidi Kingston on why people don’t read newspapers; http://bit.ly/Undcz Guardian advertises for someone to run its “club”: http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2009/08/guardian-advertises-for-club-manager.html ...

7. Hyperlocal in the headlines
(Blog/Opinion)

... that sorts it by location, using maps. Alan Mutter, who blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur, puts it well here: Everyblock is a clever online compendium of all sorts of community data that enables ...

8. You pays yer money, you wants yer choice
(Blog/Opinion)

... my twin obsessions, the media and cricket. I get into work and have an exhaustive list of authoritative media blogs to read, almost all of them outside the mainstream press and all of them free. For ...

9. Brand values don't come easy
(Blog/Opinion)

... some of the news sites and blogs I wouldn't normally get a chance to do more than scan as part of a normal day at work. And what I am seeing is really providing food for thought about the blogs versus ...

10. The best things in life are free
(Blog/Opinion)

... a club. I regularly read cricket blogs on the site - so do many others, so much so that they are their own little community - a female poster called Hieroglyph recently took has Ancient Egyptian exams ...