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Today’s online news: too much surface area, but too little depth?

Sep 20, 2009 3:19 PM

Even though I had followed the latest financial crisis since its inception on every news site of relevance, I had to wait for the Atlantic’s cover story on the topic to understand where Wall Street...

UK hyperlocal blog, meet Icelandic blogger: the iDaventry council debt campaign

Jul 8, 2009 8:13 AM

Launched in April/May 2009, idaventry is a community driven local news and features site with strong editorial comment. I invited publisher Dave Raven to write a guest post for OJB on their latest...

Even “heavy newspaper readers” spend a quarter of their media time online

Jun 25, 2009 7:44 AM

Some research from The Media Audit makes a pretty strong point about how quickly media consumers’ behaviour is changing: “The Internet now represents 32.5% of the typical “media day” for all U.S. a...

J-Tweeters: Are they journalists or tweeters? Does it matter?

Jun 25, 2009 6:17 AM

I follow the BBC World, the Guardian and the New York Times through my Twitter account, among other news services, but I get more news and information from the friends I follow on the microblogging...

Letter to Govt. pt6: “How to fund quality local journalism”

May 6, 2009 1:19 AM

The following is the last part of a series of responses to the government

Letter to Govt pt5: Opportunities for “ultra-local” media services

May 5, 2009 12:06 AM

The following is the fifth of a series of responses to the government

Crowdsourcing thoughts on council newspapers: #councilpapers

May 2, 2009 1:25 PM

The previous two posts on the role of local authorities in regional news sparked a bit of crowdsourcing on Twitter: “Do you think your council newspaper is worth having?”

Letter to Govt. pt3 extended: Should council news operations be run like the BBC?

May 1, 2009 2:57 AM

As part of the OJB’s response to the government’s

Letter to Govt. pt3: Should councils publish newspapers? A response to the Media Committee

Apr 30, 2009 1:00 AM

As part of a group response to the government’s

Letter to Govt. pt2: The opportunities and implications of BBC partnerships with local media

Apr 29, 2009 2:15 AM

As part of a group response to the government’s

Which news sites do and don’t get a ‘last updated’ time in Google

Apr 29, 2009 12:58 AM

Some news sites get a last updated time stamp in Google - and some don’t. It’s a bit of information next to the URL that says XX minutes ago and shows when the most recent story was published. Not ...

Letter to Govt. pt1: “The impact of newspaper closures on independent local journalism and access to local information”

Apr 27, 2009 5:05 AM

The following is the first in a series of responses to the

Six reasons why magazines have a future

Mar 5, 2009 1:11 PM

“The future of magazines is glorious,” said Simon Wear of magazine house Future UK, wrapping up the industry event

Twitterfall - a perfect Twitter interface for journalists?

Feb 24, 2009 2:05 PM

Still on the NUJ new media debate

Feb 24, 2009 8:59 AM

I hope the ‘lively debate’ is over by now. Related posts:NUJ new media debate Currently, there is a debate going on the NUJ...Newspaper Video: Debate highlights good practice This risks becomin...