Swedish athlete Alexander Mayborn is not the best at formulating his views. Pretty odd as the same guy is also an active blogger at a betting site. The other day he wrote a post where he called football team Tottenham ‘greedy jews’, and followed up with “I want to see Liverpool attack harder than the Germans during Kristallnacht.” He has

Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan is one of the leaders in the development of Swedish journalism, both online and offline. Their reporters and photographers are prized like no others in the nation, not even the national papers of our capital city Stockholm stands a chance. Today, they went public with something at least I have not heard of before, when editor in

Wow. This week has been nothing short of spectacular when it comes to good blog posts. So why waste time, lets get started! Journalism“Why it was great to edit print publications” by David MurraySome wonderful newspaper nostalgia. Good read for both oldies and newbies! No further comments needed.Read itFollow David Murray on Twitter Branding“For Coca-Cola, it’s social media and a smile” by Lindsey MillerWhat’s

Ok, I work with PR. There, I said it. But, I might have a different angle to the occupation than many. My first principle is: Journalism is sacred. It can and will never die. I don’t tolerate anyone lying to journalists. I don’t like people being so media trained they get boring. And above all: I think it is a

Quick: update on the French journalistic project with social media: The five chosen ones can be found in Twitterlist Les Journalistes

5 days, 5 journalists, 2 social media sites. French radio stations France Info, France Inter, RTS, RTBF radio and Radio Canada are entering to a short experiment starting February 1. The five journalists will be “completely” isolated to the outside world for five days, with one exception: they will be able to use Facebook and Twitter as sources of information.

People love to put things into nice little tight compartments that fit their way of thinking. It’s so much easier to judge and argue your stance when things are predictable and almost caricature like. What’s worse, we quickly buy into others doing it. If we wouldn’t, extremists like nationalists wouldn’t even exist. Of course I tend to fall into compartmentalization

This week is most definitely a great one for world media; the New York Times just went public with their  pay wall venture. And in France, European giant Le Monde hired their first female editor ever, Sylvie Kauffmann. Finally. Two small steps for man, two giant leaps for world media. Dare we hope for more? Regarding the debate about the NYT

Twitter has been “over capacity” for an unusally long time right now, soon an hour from what I can see. Has the news about another quake in Haiti brought the system down? Minutes before the breakdown, news were cabled out about a 6.1-magnitude aftershock at 6:03 AM EST. Read more Another sign that Twitter has become the dominant source for

If you follow any blogger or Twitter user right now, I would go for Adam Vincenzini. The Brittish Aussie works at Paratus Communications in London and is conducting a couple of interesting media experiments right now; “Could I survive an entire year without reading a newspaper?” – Adam will not read any newspaper for one full year, can he still