Paul Bradshaw
teaches Online Journalism at Birmingham City University
Blog posts in total 9
Posts
Information security: You are the weakest link
Underground car parks, blurred faces and courtroom arguments: this is the picture of source protection we are used to. It needs to change.
Ebook interactive: what do you think of it so far?
I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not writing, or producing, but 10 months publishing. Just as the internet helped flatten the news industry - turning reporters into publishers and distributors - it has done the same to the book industry.
How digitisation has changed the cycle of news production
As stories are picked up and move through news organisations today, they pass through a series of stages, from initial tweet through to potential interactive news app.
How news consumption has changed from beats to a constant static
In 2007, Paul Bradshaw's A Model for the 21st Century Newsroom described how the old production line model for news was meeting a networked mode of operation - where anyone could take on editorial and distribution roles and journalists were no longer limited in the medium they could choose or th...
Four lessons I've learnt about using Facebook for journalism
My experiment last week in running a blog entirely through a Facebook Page quietly came to the end of its allotted four weeks. It's been a useful exercise and I'm going to adapt the experiment slightly. Here's what I learnt: 1. Facebook suits emotive material The most popular posts du...
Social Media Summit report: changing audience expectations and behaviour
Web and social media platforms are challenging news organisations to address different audiences in different ways, and at different times.
#bbcsms: Session report - Changing audience expectations and behaviour
The first day of the BBC Social Media Summit (#bbcsms) discussed changing audience behaviour. Paul Bradshaw writes: The two overriding themes here were different audiences and different contexts. Web and social media platforms are challenging news organisations to address different audienc...
#bbcsms: A changing audience or changing audience expectations?
If anything summed up the expectation that the former audience has of news in 2011 it was the reaction created by three words: 'Chatham House Rule'. "Tear down this wall!" demanded Jeff Jarvis. "People across the world risk all to speak openly," said Stephen Punter, "and the BBC has a clos...
Four lessons I've learnt about Facebook
My experiment last week in running a blog entirely through a Facebook Page quietly came to the end of its allotted four weeks. It's been a useful exercise and I'm going to adapt the experiment slightly. Here's what I learnt:
