A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Video: Hilaire Bollock – BBC regional presenter makes testicle goof. Media Guardian: MEN Media and NUJ settle dispute – Strike ballot called off. Less redundancies than originally planned but local offices will still shut. Radio 4 [...]
Words Dept.
The personal weblog of Manchester journalist David Quinn
Bookmarks from 9 March to 11 March
A selection of my latest bookmarks. Letter to GMG Regional Media’s Mark Dodson from MEN NUJ chapel Stephen Fry: The internet and I – Rather good quotes in a warm and thoroughly non-geeky style. YouTube: Boards of Canada set to 80s TV adverts
Bookmarks for 19 February
A selection of my latest bookmarks. Creature Features – The site that likes to ask: What if Virginia Woolf was a wolf? And then shows you. BBC News: Runaway horse in French capital – Something weirdly beautiful about this video. More Adam Tinworth: NUJ: “effing blogs” – Analytics jiggery-pokery reveals NUJ anti-blog prejudice
Bookmarks for 18 February
A selection of my latest bookmarks. Adam Tinworth: NUJ Still Not "Getting" Social Media Roy Greenslade: Why we don't need subeditors – Guardian blogger/columnist: "No need for so many eyeballs" Press Gaztte: Missing word causes red faces at The Guardian – Subs making a point, perhaps?
Mail wants to charge freelancers to write
The Daily Mail apparently wants to charge freelance journalists to write for its newspapers. Yes, that’s right: the Mail thinks freelancers should pay £175 in order to be added to a list that will permit them to supply work. After that, a simple brown envelope containing £120 will suffice each year thereafter in order for the freelancer to remain on “the list”. This comes from [...]
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