Monday, April 27th, 2009

Why journalists should sometimes look beyond the phone

I just got into an interesting spat with Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism.  Apparently he thinks only the phone is good enough for journalists to use to chase up stories. For contact with interviewees or sources of information the telephone is ALWAYS the right way to make the first […]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

How to build your online community

No, it’s not advice from me. It’s advice from hyperactive blogmeister John Scalzi, who has posted a handy video of a forum from the Tools of Change online media publishing conference thing in New York in February. I was aware of the event, and it looked very interesting. I would have liked to have gone […]