Monthly Archives: April 2009

Fraud prevention service CIFAS slips up on member details

This afternoon I received two emails from CIFAS the UK's fraud prevention service entitled 'Your personal data held by CIFAS'. In the emails I found the name and contact details of a CIFAS member. Oops. I then received this email from … Continue reading

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Video: Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on future of journalism

Alan Rusbridger on the Future of Journalism from Carta on Vimeo. Really interesting video from The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger as part of an interview (in German) 

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Don’t judge success on what you did yesterday

Was reading this piece on regional theatre last night and was delighted to find out how good the theatre scene is supposed to be in Bristol as it is just down the road from where I live. Aside from developments … Continue reading

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Video: 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes

Thanks to @Emmamaier for pointing me in the direction of this site. I like the video cut by Matthew Belinkie at overthinkingit.com. Lots of men delivering speeches . . .

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The death of local journalism debate

Interesting discussion sparked by Henry Winter. Lots of good comments. Seriously, how great are local papers?

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Where do journalists add value?

Second question of the week – this one posed by Jeff Jarvis in an excellent post. I hope Jeff manages to do the kind of audit of legacy news sytems he mentions. I liked the following advice . . .  Every … Continue reading

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Journalists: what are you doing differently?

Had a good chat with Lindsay, (maternity cover) content manager at roadtransport.com, about how the media is changing. One thing that he mentioned was for the need for journalists to be able to do things differently now that we have so many different ways of … Continue reading

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What would you rather look at – map or hundreds of words?

Thanks to @twblog for pointing out this Travel Weekly article on travel writer Simon Calder's favourite emerging destinations. Nathan our web editor (that's @twblog, by the way) has run the article in its entirety but has also done a Google maps … Continue reading

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UK budget 2009 – skills and training pledges

UK budget speech in full but here are the skills/training related points. Additional £1.7bn of funding for Job Centre Plus and the New Deal From January 2010, everyone under the age of 25, who has been out of work for … Continue reading

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The need for quality journalism

Felt inspired to post something on the Wall Street Journal story about the number of bloggers in the US after reading this post by Patricio Robles at econsultancy. In paerticular, I liked the Patricio's use of a Mark Twain quote. In fact, … Continue reading

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