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The Independent: Onwards and upwards!
I worked for the Independent for ten years and loved it; and I love it still. It is all very well for detractors to talk about the good old days, or lament the change of ownership, or decry the fact...
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The Job Of The Week
One of the best places for a comms professional to find news about jobs is on the Job Of The Week email. This is mainly, but not exclusively, US, and includes most forms of comms – PR, internal comms,...
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I Could Do That (ICDT) 20-9-10 Updated
Some media job opportunities from this morning’s Guardian Media Section and Ned’s Job of The Week: Press Officer at Clarence House, working with HRH Prince of Wales. Paddy Haverson, head of comms, is...
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Can non-profit journalism save the day?
The non-profit sector and the media continue to flirt with each other, and even have the occasional offspring. This morning, the Guardian launched its website on global development,...
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I Could Do That (ICDT) 27-9-10
A selection of jobs that might suit ex-journalists. Intended to spark thoughts, new directions and inquiries. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wants an editor (and reading...
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The Man Who Saved The Independent
"We may be a crap team, but we have a good time." Simon Kelner’s retirement seems as good a moment as any to come out of temporary blogtirement, and to say: I love the man, and he saved the...
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About getting shot
From time to time, a Western journalist on assignment gets shot. It gets into the news and it upsets their family and friends. If they survive, they write about it, and the paper puts it on the front...
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Watching the Detectives
There are really only three ways of getting information: look it up, ask someone or steal it. The third option is often referred to by euphemism; yet increasingly the grey areas that used to exist in...
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Gernika, news reporting and intervention
A trip to Spain has made me think a lot about the Spanish civil war and news reporting, and especially the bombing of Gernika in 1937 by German and Italian aircraft on behalf of the rebel military, in...
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Finding what’s lost, via the media
Nice piece in the Boston Globe about the search for a runaway child. It makes the point that the parents used social media cleverly, and hence new media was key to success. But they didn’t succeed...
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