C&binet: The mice that roared. Or at least wrote some things on Post-Its.
I spent today at the hyperlocal C&binet event, organised by Creative Industries MP Sion Simon at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport. I’ve already blogged my thoughts leading up to event...
View ArticleDate for the diary: JEEcamp 2010 on May 21
Given that Roy Greenslade has beaten me to blogging about my own event, I thought I’d better go ahead and blog about it here. I’m talking about JEEcamp of course – a conference-cum-unconference about...
View ArticleMore from #JNTM: Flawed thinking behind government local TV plans
Following on from the previous post, another government policy up for criticism at this week’s Journalism’s Next Top Model conference was the much-mooted local TV plans. This was a recurring theme of...
View ArticleTime to talk about legal
As a lone blogger how much legal protection do you have? No more than anyone else, when it comes to libel, contempt of court law and so on, except that people are more likely to pay attention to large...
View ArticleHyperlocal voices: Will Perrin, Kings Cross Environment
Will Perrin has spoken widely about his experiences with www.kingscrossenvironment.com, a site he set up four years ago “as a desperate measure to help with local civic activism”. In the latest in the...
View ArticleWhy journalists should be lobbying over police.uk’s crime data
Conrad Quilty-Harper writes about the new crime data from the UK police force – and in the process adds another straw to the groaning camel’s back of the government’s so-called transparency agenda:...
View ArticleWhy we need open courts data – and newspapers need to improve too
Justice photo by mira66 Few things sum up the division of the UK around the riots like the sentencing of those involved. Some think courts are too lenient, while others gape at six month sentences for...
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