I’m a fan of cooking shows. My long-suffering family has to put up with hours of Jamie, Gordon and Nigella as they turn out mouth-watering dishes that I promise to one day replicate. On of my favourite TV chefs is Gordon Ramsay. I ’ve watched most of the shows: the one where he saves bad [...]
Three things newspapers could learn from Gordon Ramsay
Posted by Alastair Otter on November 9, 2011
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No guarantees for newspapers battling change
News organisations are in a terrible place right now. Newspapers are dying and yet news on tablets, PCs and mobile are generating nowhere near the revenue hoped for. Even worse, it’s unlikely that these new digital platforms will ever deliver the types of revenues enjoyed during the heyday of newsprint. Readers just aren’t prepared to pay for [...]
Posted by Alastair Otter on November 3, 2011
http://mediahack.co.za/2011/11/no-guarantees-for-newspapers-battling-change/
As media evolves journalists need to embrace change
I’ve been a journalist for the best part of two decades. In that time not much has changed. And yet, so much has. The end product, a newspaper, is largely the same as it has always been, but the processes to produce it are not. Over the years I’ve seen layers of skill stripped from [...]
Posted by Alastair Otter on September 23, 2011
http://mediahack.co.za/2011/09/as-media-evolves-journalists-need-to-embrace-change/
Better live tweeting for journalists
Twitter is changing news. Today many major news stories break on Twitter long before TV, radio and newspapers are able to cover them. And increasingly journalists are reporting live from the sidelines of major events putting readers in the know hours before many of them will even think of buying a newspaper. At the forefront [...]
Posted by Alastair Otter on September 14, 2011
http://mediahack.co.za/2011/09/better-live-tweeting-for-journalists-2/
The evolving newsroom: 5 new roles for journalists
It’s now generally accepted that journalism is changing. Readers are no longer solely reliant on newspapers for news, Twitter has accelerated the news cycle to the point where news is broken just about every minute of the day, and youngsters are growing up in a world where they no longer choose a news provider, the [...]
Posted by Alastair Otter on August 29, 2011
http://mediahack.co.za/2011/08/the-evolving-newsroom-5-new-roles-for-journalists/