Paul Bradshaw
teaches Online Journalism at Birmingham City University
Blog posts in total 9
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Information security: You are the weakest link
Underground car parks, blurred faces and courtroom arguments: this is the picture of source protection we are used to. It needs to change.
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Ebook interactive: what do you think of it so far?
I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not writing, or producing, but 10 months publishing. Just as the internet helped flatten the news industry - turning reporters into publishers and distributors - it has done the same to the book industry.
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How digitisation has changed the cycle of news production
As stories are picked up and move through news organisations today, they pass through a series of stages, from initial tweet through to potential interactive news app.
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How news consumption has changed from beats to a constant static
In 2007, Paul Bradshaw's A Model for the 21st Century Newsroom described how the old production line model for news was meeting a networked mode of operation - where anyone could take on editorial and distribution roles and journalists were no longer limited in the medium they could choose or th...
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Four lessons I've learnt about using Facebook for journalism
My experiment last week in running a blog entirely through a Facebook Page quietly came to the end of its allotted four weeks. It's been a useful exercise and I'm going to adapt the experiment slightly. Here's what I learnt: 1. Facebook suits emotive material The most popular posts du...
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Social Media Summit report: changing audience expectations and behaviour
Web and social media platforms are challenging news organisations to address different audiences in different ways, and at different times.
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#bbcsms: Session report - Changing audience expectations and behaviour
The first day of the BBC Social Media Summit (#bbcsms) discussed changing audience behaviour. Paul Bradshaw writes: The two overriding themes here were different audiences and different contexts. Web and social media platforms are challenging news organisations to address different audienc...
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#bbcsms: A changing audience or changing audience expectations?
If anything summed up the expectation that the former audience has of news in 2011 it was the reaction created by three words: 'Chatham House Rule'. "Tear down this wall!" demanded Jeff Jarvis. "People across the world risk all to speak openly," said Stephen Punter, "and the BBC has a clos...
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Four lessons I've learnt about Facebook
My experiment last week in running a blog entirely through a Facebook Page quietly came to the end of its allotted four weeks. It's been a useful exercise and I'm going to adapt the experiment slightly. Here's what I learnt: