James Mitchell

BBC cancels What the Papers Say The BBC has axed BBC Two newspaper review show What the Papers Say – the second longest running programme on British TV. (tags: journalism newspapers bbc tv+show)

Platform thinking When you choose to make your thing into a platform, you make a trade. You give up some control. But in exchange, you allow someone else to make your platform more valuable, more important, more essential. (tags: news online journalism new+york+times) ‘Try a celebrity video’ PM tells campaigning terminally ill journalist A terminally [...]

Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service After being shown the very definition of harassment, Twitter alters its terms of service rather than protect one of its users from behaviour that its own TOS prohibits. (tags: blogging censorship community culture ethics twitter law) Journalist in Sri Lanka kidnapped Journalists have protested in the Sri Lankan [...]

Police ‘need’ journalist’s material on ‘former Jihadist’ Journalistic material about a man who claimed to be a British Jihadist is needed by Greater Manchester Police to investigate whether he is a terrorist or a liar set on milking the media, the High Court has heard. (tags: journalism court manchester) Local journalists strike in York NUJ [...]

Is Flickr Worth $4-Billion? So, what’s Flickr worth, and, more important, what could it be worth if it was managed more aggressively? (tags: flickr)