Sarah Booker Lewis

I missed this at the time. What an amazing picture.

Found this piece fro Nieman rather interesting this morning, particularly news curation and ideas for subscription.

This is an exceptionally useful guide to managing social media for news sites. Particularly key is maintaining a human presence on Facebook.

I like the way one of the commenters on this post describe it as a “Dead Poet Society moment”.

The majority of journalists are ethical. Probably 99% of us wouldn’t dream of hacking a phone.

Most journalists don’t report on celebrity but focus on their patch whether its hard news, politics, business, community etc.

Unfortunately the one per cent spoil it for the rest.

Storify is such a useful tool for covering reaction to mass events. These examples from Mallary Jean Tenore show the breadth of opportunity the service offers.

Nicola Hughes, DataMiner provides a very useful response to this Quora question. There are equally useful links from Hannes Gassert.

A very useful guide to developing coding skills for journalists. We all need to be multi-skilled these days and it’s not that difficult to teach yourself the fundamentals.

(ht Journalism.co.uk)

QR codes are appearing in newspapers, on television and in adversements, but are they really taking off?

This is a very interesting article about QR codes. I have used them a few times with moderate success. If they become more commonplace then they’ll probably be used.