Cherry picking metrics in newsrooms
But what interests me is the stat. As someone who cares about how newsrooms use data to information decision making (both for our journalism and our product experience) there is crucial context missing.…
Joining the News Product Alliance board
Hopefully many of you have heard of the NPA by now and are members of the Slack community and are making use of the Product Kit, Mentoring Scheme and planning to attend the upcoming Summit at the end of April I'm incredibly pleased to say I'm joining the board of…
A brief reflection on my first 18 months mentoring
It's been 18 months since I started offering mentoring slots to anyone who felt I could help them. I wanted to publish a couple of observations and renew the call/option for people to book in for a session if they wanted.…
Excellent guides for News Product people
The fab team at the News Product Alliance (NPA) has just published an additional set of 8 guides, taking their Product Kit to a total of 19 guides [https://newsproduct.org/product-kit]. In their own words > Product Kit [https://newsproduct.org/product-kit] is a growing catalog of practical guides for…
Why newsrooms need to stop transforming and start changing
Why newsrooms need to stop transforming and start changing - The news industry has had the greatest gift of all when it comes to disruption: time. And it squandered it.…
No thing can save journalism
As I've been arguing for a while now, the most important thing to get right is structure - our internal structures should reflect our readers (customers) and not just be the 'traditional', siloed way.…
News 2050: a 30-year outlook for the media
News media executives often comfort themselves that the digital world is moving so fast that “you can’t predict what’s going to happen next year, let alone in five years’ time”. We say that’s nonsense.…
Strategy isn't sexy. It just means having a (good) plan
This is where I think most people fall down. They can do a list of actions, but making them coherent seems to be really difficult because it means you have to start making choices. Real life trade-offs.…