Jon Mitchell
Summary
Jon Mitchell is a British meteorologist - currently employed by ITV. He is the chief weather presenter for the ITV Yorkshire regional programme Calendar (and also appears on ITV Tyne Tees & Border when their presenters are absent). Jon Mitchell started work with The Met Office on leaving school in 1978. At that time he described work as:"We spent most of our time plotting charts with two pens sellotaped together. The finished product was a work of art that took three solid hours sitting at a desk to complete". In 1986 Jon was posted to the Leeds weather centre. His first televised TV forecast was when he was asked to stand in for Bob Rust.
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This Week in Review: The BBC’s scandals blow up, and WaPo’s changing of the guard
BBC’s problems continue to compound: The sexual abuse problems at the BBC boiled over this week, as a parallel scandal emerged: In the midst of criticism for killing a story about sexual abuse by one of its former hosts, the BBC ran a report that falsely accused a former British politician as a sexual abuser himself.
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Friday reading #12
Roll up! Roll up! Stuff your Kindle, Instapaper or Pocket app full of the finest juiciest long reads and interesting links I’ve siphoned off from the web this week. After suggestions by @byekick and @lynsey_s I’ve also made it into one of Arc90’s “Readlists” - making it easy to shove them onto your ereading/ebookification device in one fell swoop - “Friday reading #12 on Readlists”.
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Note to media: Serve your users, not your platform
Everyone in the media industry seems to be trying to find a magic recipe for digital success, whether it’s a paywall or an iPad app or an outsourced news-aggregation service like Journatic. But it’s worth remembering that the simple things matter as well — such as giving readers something that serves their needs, even if it doesn’t fit your traditional business model or the way you think about your platform.
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This Week in Review: Red flags before Facebook’s IPO, and two sides of Google’s smarter search
Facebook’s advertising uncertainties: This week’s biggest news is happening right now, as Facebook goes public after months of buildup. There were plenty of developments this week leading up to Facebook’s IPO, most of them not particularly good for Facebook. We’ll start with one positive piece of news: The company decided to make a last-minute increase in the size of its IPO, with 421 million shares offered to investors, making it the largest technology IPO ever.
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As the 'Friction-Less' Web Grows, Friction Against It Does Too
Control over our public image is incredibly important to us -- from the clothes we decide to wear each morning, to the music we blast loud enough for street-goers to hear, to the very words we speak aloud to our friends, bosses and strangers.
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This Week in Review: Digital journalism’s big Pulitzer win, and ebook concerns shift to Amazon
The Pulitzers and HuffPo’s arrival: The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded this week, accompanied as usual by tears and impromptu speeches in newsrooms around the country (documented well by Jeff Sonderman on Storify). On the meta-level, the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple criticized the awards’ secrecy, but Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review offered a defense of having such publicly celebrated industry awards in the first place, arguing that during an era when news organizations have become so adept at measuring journalism quantity, the Pulitzers are one of the few barometers left for journalism quality.
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Facebook’s Instagram deal — bubble indicator or smart acquisition?
It might have been just a regular Monday for most people, but the Silicon Valley/social-media sphere was rocked by a major bombshell: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post that the giant social network is acquiring the popular mobile photo-sharing app Instagram for $1-billion in cash and stock.
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The ‘tap essay’ explained: How a unique story form blends old techniques and new technology
What does a “media inventor” do? Take it from someone who uses the term to describe himself: “Media inventors,” writes Robin Sloan, “feel compelled to make the content and the container. ”.
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Are homeless hotspots the solution to ‘self-involved’ digerati at SXSW?
Who didn’t shudder a little at the news Monday that BBH, a New York marketing firm, strapped compact wireless routers to homeless people and deployed them around Austin, Texas, wearing T-shirts saying, for example, “I’m Clarence, and I’m a 4G… Read more.
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Story of the Week: Google feeds Safari cookies
Google’s latest privacy breach? Late in the week, a researcher at Stanford University discovered that Google and several other advertising companies were bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Although Google admitted it “now started removing these advertising cookies,” the …Continue reading: "Story of the Week: Google feeds Safari cookies".
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