photo credit: toksuede. Are Poland ready for the 2012 Euro Championships? 21 journalism students will travel from London to find out. This and four other posts in today’s round-up on interesting reads on the news. Tips on crowdsourcing news, feature and investigative stories Journal Register Co’s manager of community engagement and social media Steve Buttry have summarized how to get help from the

photo credit: Andrew J Ferguson Jessica Malnik wrote an interesting blog post on why a journalism degree is valuable, whether you are a reporter or not. Being on the other side of the spectra as a PR pro that has gone into the news business, I’d like to do a 360° and offer another perspective: why people in the PR

[Warning: This blog post is purely subjective speculation, and not built on any empirical facts.] This morning, I read an interesting editorial on Wikileaks by Swedish journalist Anders Mildner. One of his points was that Wikileaks might not be som big among in the eyes of common man, as it is in social media. Nerds like us might think and

Björn Hurtig, you just have to love Björn Hurtig. Why? Well, Julian Assange’s lawyer really put his foot in it with his statements following Guardians article 10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange. For instance, Hurtig says: “It is with great concern that I hear about this because it puts Julian and his defence in a bad

This week, a controversial book on the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf was published and immediately got the sought for media attention. In “The Reluctant Monarch”, the author writes about scandals like lovers, parties and visits to strip clubs. Yesterday, His Majesty the King gave a very short statement during a press conference. A statement that was critizised by journalist

I’ve had the fortune of working a lot with journalists and such in media, and most of the times it is a real pleasure. I love people who critically assess everything they see, and I love the fact that media many times is the last outlet of truth that keeps people and businesses honest. To keep it short (…because you

I wonder what some of these employers and recruiters are thinking about when it comes to some of the available positions. For instance, why do you prioritize experience before skill in creative jobs like programming or design? You see it pretty much each and every time there’s a job out in primarily inhouse web development, marketing and communication. What am

Again and again, the people you expect would really understand the dynamics of PR just fail to live by it. This time, I believe that massive blunders have helped the right wing racist political party the Sweden Democrats to reach the parliament with more than 5% of the votes in the election. What saddens me more? That I’m not sure

I’m so upset right now. For the umpf-teenth time, a newspaper (or two this time, NSD and Norrbottens-Kuriren) has published news on a crime (rape) in the sports section. Why? Because the accused happens to be an athlete. Excuse me, but what the H*LL does this have to do with it? The case I’m talking about is Swedish, but could

The information has left the closet. 90 000 of the reported 260 000 documents that Wikileaks have gotten access to lately became public yesterday. The ramifications for the war in Afghanistan itself could be huge and article after article will be written about it for the upcoming weeks, maybe even months. Beside the war, we could quite possibly also soon