44: Trust, backing and time - the making of a journalist

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Matt Kelly and Mike Graham are back for another sparkling edition of the Thought Police and today it's all about the changing landscape of local and national journalism. From months spent gathering information inside the walls of Buckingham Palace to days grinding away in the newsroom office, the times they are a-changing. The pair share their experiences of engaging with the community to win their trust and look ahead to possibly bleaker, darker times where the journalist becomes more foe than friend. It's a fascinating look from the inside out, so sit back, relax and enjoy...

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0:00.0	The The Oh, So welcome back to yet another sparking edition of the Thought Police, the
0:51.1	podcast that everybody wants to hear and that's getting out there
0:53.9	it's getting more and more reaction it is now we finished off the last one
0:57.7	was just talking about your trip briefly to the US of A but you should tell us
1:01.3	more about it what were you doing there So it was a what it's a thing called newsgeist which is something Google run and it's all about the future and news you know it brings together well they say and I'll let the
1:14.2	audience be their own judge they say they bring together the brightest minds in journalism
1:18.8	to discuss well I was there in my tuxedo to surface drinks.
1:23.7	But there's about 150 people, and this one was in the States.
1:28.0	They do one in the States, they do one in Europe,
1:30.0	and I've been to quite a few, and are fabulous it's a fabulous session because you get to take a little bit of time
1:36.5	now and actually think about what you're doing and why you're doing it and which is something we don't have a lot of time
1:41.2	no we don't I mean time is the one thing we don't have a lot of time. No we don't. I mean time is the one thing we don't
1:44.4	have. But it's so important now because there's so many of the business models that
1:48.6	dropped up journalism in the past have just disappeared. So a lot of journalism is in a lot of trouble and I don't know
1:54.0	whether people appreciate for instance local journalism which I'm very much
1:58.2	involved in is absolutely in the shit you know as a model because what's happened is
2:04.5	Facebook and Google have come along and they've completely changed the way people
2:08.5	advertise. The internet has come along and people have completely changed the way they read newspapers
2:14.5	and idiots us as an industry gave them it free from day one on the internet and now of course everybody thinks that's just you know it's
2:23.9	but if we haven't given it away for free do you know what would have read it
2:26.9	but do you not think that we would have been overtaken even quicker
2:29.3	possibly the end yeah you know the stuff that you can get for free on the internet
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