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Energy company (didn’t they used to be an oil company?) Shell are running a series of web dialogues, with today’s (6am GMT time, unfortunately they are not supplying the coffee) on ‘Sustainability Communications’ with their V-P for Comms, Björn Edlund.
Early skirmishes between the Comms team and the great unwashed (it is 6am) remind [...]

Last Friday I attended the first of seven ‘climate change and violence’ 1-day workshops attended by a network of academics, campaigners, government and faith groups (and others) interested in looking at climate change in a holistic manner, rather than from segregated disciplines or policy positions. The network is called Crisis Forum, set up and [...]

Last week, an anthropology PhD student in New Zealand wrote a summary and response to a paper I gave at the Association for Journalism Education annual conference, in September this year. I though her commentary was a thoughtful piece with a fair set of conclusions: that bloggers self-select their networks based on beliefs. And that [...]

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?

I found this story on Cameroon journalists being trained in covering climate change stories uplifting. I used to follow Allafrica.com during my time at Oneworld, as we worked with them as a media partner. I have a–soft spot?–a wry eye for African journalism, which often speaks of a bare truth without, perhaps, meaning to; take [...]