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The Press Gazette have announced the winners of their inaugural Environmental Journalism awards, and illustrated in one move what a strange and contradictory thing such events can be. First of all, what the judges got right before what they got totally wrong.
Most importantly, the special commendation for Newcastle’s Evening Chronicle and it’s Go Green [...]

One of the most arresting case studies in Nick Davies’ book Flat Earth News, about the ‘churnalism’ of poor reporting/stories that is sweeping through the journalism industry as the result of its commercialisation, is about Y2K - the millennium bug.
Davies successfully shows how a ‘non-story’ fed itself, both politically and in the press, until [...]

What’s the BBC’s approach to training for online journalism? I spoke to Nick Shackleton-Jones, the BBC’s Manager for Online & Informal Learning and lead behind the BBC College of Journalism. (This post first appeared on Paul Bradshaw’s onlinejournalismblog.com.)
What is it you do, and what’s the BBC’s approach to multimedia training, development and learning?

Tony at Harmless Sky has been following , for 18 months at least, development of BBC policy on the coverage of climate change.
He picks up on this line from a rather obscurely-titled BBC report on impartiality:
The BBC has held a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts, and has come to the view [...]

“Doubt is our product. We manufacture doubt.” So says Mack, the bastard PR-lobbyist in last night’s BBC2 climate change drama, Burn Up.
It wasn’t a bad attempt at taking on climate change in a dramatic made-for-TV format. The first turns at addressing a new social/political phenomena are always going to be a little cliched. Some of [...]

It hasn’t exactly crept up on me. I was aware of the BBC plans, as I was working on a similar design build at my last editorial management job. Ajax technology, the dashboard, coverging media, putting the user in control as the philosophy behind the new careers site, Creative Choices. But now the BBC changes [...]