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

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

... around to come up with a new way of presenting and packaging information – their traditional stock in trade – to make it valuable or irresistible to their audiences. One way is to make it sexy, dynamic ...

2. What's old is new
(Blog/Opinion)

... media people that journalists sit around in newsrooms making things up, writing obviously slanted stories, suppressing information and generally being corporate beasts dancing to the drum of the likes ...

3. Links for 28.10.09
(Articles/Reading List)

Digital Journalist: In his essay Mark Loundy says newspapers are dragging down the brand values of news. He highlights some of the fabulous things that can be done with information online. Trouble is, ...

4. On the road again
(Blog/Opinion)

... a lot of the time, but his basic attitude is sound: that it is down to the industry to figure a new way of existing in the new information ecology and that journalists do not necessarily have a sacred ...

5. The sound of the suburbs?
(Blog/Opinion)

... will include reporting on local meetings and events with an emphasis on local political decision making, identifying issues of importance to local residents and signposting information and news provided ...

6. Sub text denies free speech
(Blog/Opinion)

... of instinct, thought and resources. And it is supposed to complement, not replace, what a news organisation is supposed to do best – that is, find out and publish information that is important to their ...

7. Links for 18.09.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition, writes Mark Bowden  Click here for the full story: Editor and publisher: Your content is worth zero to digital ...

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

...  But it’s going to be what the public wants, how it decides it is going to consume news and information and the value it places on what we as journalists do, that will dictate whether we get to survive ...

9. Links for 04.09.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... one? #4 - We can re-create scarcity by putting up pay walls. “Most newspaper information just isn’t that scarce.  Nor is it of particularly high quality.” Click here for the full story. Michael ...

10. Blueprint for progress
(Articles/Original)

Welcome to the Media Alliance Future of Journalism! It has become fashionable over the past couple of years to compare what is going on in our news industry to the revolution in information unleashed ...