Freedom of information: caught in the act | Media | The Guardian
Hazell's report on the legislation – Does FOI Work? The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK – which will be published in the summer, suggests that as many as two thirds of FOI-originated stories led to a decrease in trust in the government, focusing, as many published stories did, on financial misuse, poor performance, inefficiency and failures. "This is not a failure of FOI, it's actually a story about the media's editorial values," says the former civil servant. | source : www.guardian.co.uk
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 04/01/10 09:28 | permalien
Starsuckers celebrity hoax dupes tabloids | Media | guardian.co.uk
Within a fortnight, almost every daily tabloid newspaper in the UK had published one of the Starsuckers team's bogus stories about the likes of Amy Winehouse, Pixie Geldof and Guy Ritchie. At times, the fake stories were reproduced by media outlets across the world, where they were presented to millions of readers as fact. | source : www.guardian.co.uk
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 15/10/09 12:15 | permalien
Englemed News blog: A tough week for health reporting
A second story has also upset quite a few people - because it implied that households with parents who work full time weren't looking after their children properly. We tucked the report away as four paragraphs in the middle of a round up of child health here. Instinctively, we felt it raised all sorts of social issues rather than establishing any direct health links between parents working and their children's lifestyles. Some British newspapers made a big thing of it and upset many of their readers. Here is blogger Jayne Howarth, (who occasionally writes for Englemed) letting rip at the research. | source : englemed.blogspot.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 02/10/09 11:52 | permalien
Facebook’s Internal Stats Show People Are Sharing More
Facebook’s overall goal is to get more people sharing more information, in part so it can learn more about them, and then target ads to them more accurately. The numbers suggest that this plan is working, no doubt aided by ongoing improvements to features like status updates and video uploading. These sharing increases — not just overall traffic growth — could be contributing to Facebook’s revenue growth. | source : www.insidefacebook.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 30/09/09 14:34 | permalien
Blogrunner
Blogrunner is an online news aggregator that brings you headlines collected from news sources around the web. These sources include both established news organizations and blogs. By matching headlines from traditional media publishers with commentary from bloggers, Blogrunner brings you a view of the news that reflects what is being discussed on the web and that automatically integrates perspective and context. Blogrunner also brings you a view of the news ranked and organized by bloggers and other communities across the web. The ranking of a news story on Blogrunner is determined by its popularity on the web. This ranking is determined by algorithms. | source : www.blogrunner.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 30/09/09 14:29 | permalien