TheWayoftheWeb

I need to tread carefully with this post, which came from a link via @davidcushman and @ajkeen. The article in question is Journos Losing Jobs at Three Times Rate of Average Workers which looks at the number of journalists being laid off in the U.S.
To put it in context, I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid [...]

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There are increasing numbers of journalists and bloggers utilising every channel in multimedia to convey their stories and information, but whether you’re contemplating starting to embrace digital multimedia, or you’ve engaged in mixing text, audio, video etc for a while, you’re bound to pick up at least a couple of new tools and ideas from [...]

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From what I’ve seen, I’ve not the only person in the world to mention the death of someone known globally as Neda. (NSFW and disturbing).
What interests me is that I’m looking for Western European journalists to either give me context – or to point me towards the people that can, via social media or broadcast [...]

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Happened across this post, via Antony Mayfield.
Regardless of the actual post, what really caught my eye was in the comments by Chris Wheal:
First:
‘Let me reiterate a principle of journalism: You contact the subject of a story and put the allegations to them before you publish.
Had you done so – contacted the NUJ or me, as [...]

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