So I survived. I not only talked (a lot) about writing a book on democracy and journalism, I then finally did it. In comparison, working my way through Lulu’s self-publishing process was a doddle. For Fraudcast News, this is what’s written on the packet: People like to quote Winston Churchill’s quip about democracy being the […]

I have signed myself in for a two-minute presentation on Fraudcast News at January’s Hacks and Hackers London meetup group, part of my efforts to market what will be a free-to-variably priced book to the wider world. My challenge is to flag the book‘s imminent existence and throw forward its conclusions and proposals in a […]

If you have ever dreamed of making TV news rather than just watching it, here’s some good news: it’s not nearly as hard, or as expensive, as you think. I am at the Mozilla Festival 2011 in London this weekend, a meeting of hacks and hackers working on media freedom and the web. Rather than […]

I’m going to this event on Saturday and Sunday in London’s North Greenwich – looks excellent. The aim? To assemble Open web developers, journalists and educators to reinvent media on the web. Not too ambitious then. Rather than just consuming and participating, I also plan volunteering with the prodigious VisionOntv crowd, interviewing people and reporting […]

Extraordinary story of successful alternative newspaper model from South Korea’s Hankyoreh – brought to my attention in a video interview by VisionOntv’s Richard Hering at the recent Rebellious Media Conference in London. No news to Korea hands, I’m sure, but interesting for the rest of us. Who wouldn’t kill, well not literally, for 60k shareholders and […]

My name is Patrick Chalmers. I have worked as a journalist for the last 20 years, just over half of that time with the Reuters news agency, since become Thomson Reuters. I spent the last few wondering what on earth my work, and that of my chosen profession, should be about. The result is Fraudcast […]