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Telegraph blog looks at the paper’s future

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Oct 10th, 2006

While we wait to see what happens next at the Telegraph, Shane Richmond is a valuable conduit through whom we can learn something about the thinking behind the glass foyer in Victoria.
Richmond, the online news editor, wrote a long post yesterday on his technology blog about the paper and its future. It is written [...]



Ofcom’s empire is ‘built on sand’

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Oct 8th, 2006

The empire of Ofcom, the regulator of Britain’s telecom companies, ISPs, and broadcasters (except the BBC), is “built on sand and the tide is coming in,” says John Naughton in his Networker column in the Observer.
He points out that someone who wants to set up a radio station now just needs a broadband connection, a [...]



Age is no guide to web news enthusiasm

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Oct 5th, 2006

Support for my belief that it is not the older journalists, those who remember the smell of hot metal, that are the most resistant to putting the web first comes in an American Journalism Review article on Online scoops.
Rusty Coates, general manager of TBO.com’s converged (Tampa Tribune and News Channel8) newsroom in Tampa, Florida, [...]



Telegraph turmoil presages more fights for the future

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Oct 2nd, 2006

The Guardian’s media section today is dominated by turmoil at the Telegraph. It is the section lead which turns to page 2 where there is more about the “dizzying decline of a great paper”. Then it takes up the whole of Kim Fletcher’s On the press column on page 7.
But it is not entirely “dog [...]