Falling Off A Blog

Training for 21st century journalists

I'm back in the loop after a couple of weeks of heavy workload. Got a backlog of things I want to talk about.

But I'll start with something I saw today. Danny Sanchez on Journalistopia has put together a short list of useful links to training resources for online journalists, and invited additions.

One link I'd certainly add is to the BBC's journalism college website, which has just been launched to the public according to Press Gazette. It has a bunch of online courses, covering radio, video and web journalism, and promises that there is more to come.

Journalism 1.0 fights back

Joel Stein over at the LA Times has written a great column today taking a stand against the emerging new orthodoxy of Journalism 2.0/participative journalism:

Here's what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don't want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don't listen to them either. That sound on the phone, Mom, is me typing.

I don't agree with a word he says, but he talks rubbish in such an entertaining way.