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Those of you with a passing familiarity with social networking site Facebook know that you can form groups together with like-minded people there. Groups range from the earnestly serious (”Helping solve world hunger”, 5962 members), through the utilitarian (numerous groups are formed to connect people in a particular company or workplace), to the downright silly […]

The conventional wisdom is that audiences, and young audiences in particular, are more or less giving up on traditional media as news sources nowadays and instead flocking to the Internet and alternative news sources such as blogs, forums, wikis, etc.

This conventional wisdom is rarely backed up by evidence - any evidence. In their recent […]

One of the most interesting papers in my group at the NordMedia conference (see previous post) was on “Leadership in successful newspaper companies” by Monika Djerf-Pierre (I would link, but it turns out that you can’t link directly to her home page at JMG, Göteborgs universitet).

Despite the business school-sounding title, this paper is in fact […]

I am currently in Helsinki, at the NordMedia 2007 conference. I had grandiose plans to blog throughout the conference, but between me being chair of one of the working groups and all else going on there has been precious little time to sit down in front of the computer. Now, as the conference is drawing […]

Assignment Zero is an experiment in so-called crowdsourcing of news, i.e. letting users collectively gather and produce news in a decentralised, distributed fashion – participatory journalism is another, related term.

Assignment Zero has now entered its publishing phase, so you can check out some of their features for yourself – for it is more features than […]

My blogging frequency has declined somewhat in the summer months, as you might have noticed. This decrease in frequency mirrors the ‘news drought’ that seems to occur in most news media during the summer. Many newspaper lower their page count during the summer, for example. Why? Are there really less things of importance, less newsworthy […]

About ten years ago, when newspapers, TV channels and other news organizations started to go online in earnest, people started asking the question: Do we really need journalists? Most readers of this blog will probably be familiar with the context of the question – anyone can write and post online these days, who is a […]

The blog world moves fast – I’ve been a bit slow following up on this post by Martin Moore, on the transparency of journalism (or rather, the lack of it). It’s all about a recent study by ICMPA, the International Centre for Media and the Public Agenda, looking at how transparent news organisations around the […]

That was the title of the first in the “Newsmaker” series of lectures co-hosted by Reuters and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The Prime Minister presented some reflections on the nature of leadership and public life in a media age.

The Prime Minister’s 35-minute speech has been condensed in a 4-minute video […]

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) recently released an interesting report about the state of the newspaper industry worldwide – and according to this report, things are going pretty well: globally, newspaper circulation is up 2.3 percent and global advertising revenue is up 3.77 percent from last year. Chief Executive Officer of WAN, Timothy Balding, […]