This morning I have spent some time looking at the BBC’s new document "From seesaw to wagon wheel — safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century".
I pity the programme makers who are going to have to apply this to watchable, informative and entertaining TV and radio. First they will need to decide [...]
Media executives have been beating a path to Tampa, Florida, for several years to see the future: the converged newsroom that brings together the Tampa Tribune, WFLA TV and tbo.com. This week the Tribune announced that it was cutting 70 jobs of which “fewer than 10″ will be from the 280-strong newsroom.
Lucas Grindley who works [...]
Headline figures from a world survey of newspaper editors are necessarily all that illuminating — the devil is in the regional detail. But I was struck by a couple of pieces of information from the first Newsroom Barometer report from the World Editor Forum and the accompanying Trends in Newsrooms report.
First was a quote from [...]
A debate about the effectiveness of journalism training and education in meeting the needs of rapidly changing and converging mainstream media is taking off in the United States. The issues are similar here.
I was alerted to the discussion by Ryan Sholin who is working on a thesis at San Jose State University about the adoption [...]
An extraordinary editorial in the new edition of the Columbia Journalism Review suggests something close to panic among some of the people who think about the newspaper industry in the United States. It boils down to telling stock market companies to get out of newspapers and hand over to benevolent billionaire proprietors.
The case for this [...]
This year there has been almost a frenzy as mainstream media websites bring on the latest technology with video, podcasts, more blogs with talk of social media, conversations and communities.
Could this rush be a mistake. Two items in yesterday’s Guardian suggest it might be. First on the business pages, Richard Wray reports that the Upload [...]
The progress of newspapers in developing online business to keep the money flowing in to finance quality journalism, and prevent newspapers from entering a “downward spiral” is examined in Editor and Publisher. Steve Outing asks: “So how is this going?”
He finds a mixed picture but says: “Just about everyone — finally — is on board [...]
The Independent on Sunday has found a soul mate in the editor of its rival, The Observer. In an IoS interview with Roger Alton, Jane Thynne points out that the two papers have both stuck to good old-fashioned journalism and have outperformed their rivals in the Sunday quality market. In reply to her question, “Do [...]
Many cheers for Kim Fletcher who devotes the On the press column in today’s Media Guardian to praise of the sub-editor. He looks at the idea that the media world is now all about reporters and finds it wanting.
He writes:
What you tend not to hear from writing journalists is praise for colleagues who can synthesise [...]
The government is set to slash the licence fee rises the BBC wants to below the rate of inflation and have a review half way through the new charter, putting the broadcaster on a political leash, according to the front page of the Observer today.
Already the BBC has scaled down its 2.3% a year above [...]
