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Guardian injuction: Judge says he considered Human Rights Act

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Oct 14th, 2009

The Guardian is still forbidden by the terms of the existing injunction, granted by a vacation duty judge, Mr Justice Maddison, to give further information about the Minton report, or its contents. So, the ability to report Parliament is a small victory.
For any journalist reading the terms of that super-gagging order is frightening. It should [...]



Out of the mouth of a reader…

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 6th, 2009

Mary C Rush is upset by the slimming-down of her local newspaper, the Mansfield News-Journal in Ohio and has written to the editor with a question:
Just who is it that is responsible for placing the contents of newspapers on the Internet every day? It’s enough to boggle one’s mind how this occurs.
Why can’t newspapers have [...]



Taxpayers finance community website

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Jul 15th, 2008

Stephen Glover in the Independent yesterday was rightly concerned by the growth of free newspapers produced by councils. “State newspapers are rivalling the free press — right under your nose,” was the headline.
I am just as concerned with a council run website. But the arguments are similar to those of Glover:
Just when many local newspapers [...]



BBC local web video could boost local news diversity

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Jun 29th, 2008

Peter Preston in his Observer media column today writes about the BBC’s plans for local on-demand web sites with up to 20 minutes a day of video and the opposition from the regional newspaper giants. “It is,” he says, “a baroque row.” Not sure about the adjective but I see what he is getting at.
He [...]



A tale of two Contempt of Court Act orders

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Nov 1st, 2007

Last week a district judge in Norwich barred the press from printing the addresses of two police sergeants accused of failing to take proper care of a man who was rushed to hospital after a spell in the cells.
The Eastern Daily Press argued in the magistrates court that the order was contrary to legislation and [...]



If the future is “conversation” let’s start here

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 27th, 2007

After reading the comments on Jay Rosen’s post attacking Michael Skube’s Los Angeles Times piece on blogging, I went out and bought a copy of The Cult of the Amateur.
It was probably only a few of the 339 comments that motivated me but they gave an overall impression of a bunch of people who simply [...]



Jay Rosen flails at blog critic

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 20th, 2007

If any of those people who believe bloggers are a complete waste of time and that blogs are no more than rants from corner bar stools, happen across this post, they should should read the following. It will confirm their opinion:

My advice? Retire.
Commentary on Blogs: All the noise that fits by Michael Skube [...]



Do great white lies matter?

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Aug 9th, 2007

So the picture that seemed to confirm a great white shark off the Cornish coast at Newquay was a hoax. It was all part of the silly season gift that began when a man on holiday at St Ives filmed a shark, claimed to be a man-eating great white. The Sun made a lot of [...]



Get a Second Life!

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 31st, 2007

Can someone tell me the commercial, or even, potentially commercial value of MSM setting up in Second Life? Back in October last year Reuters opened a Second Life bureau staffed by reporter Adam Pasick.
Now, Journalism.co.uk reports, the Telegraph has moved in to build a recreation of the garden it sponsored at the [...]



Fight between Google and MSM approaches

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 24th, 2007

Roy Greenslade has picked up on Telegraph editor Will Lewis’s opening address at the 6th International Newsroom Summit and thinks it implies that the Telegraph group is going to follow other mainstream publishers into battle against Google.
According to ifra, Lewis called on newspapers to welcome transformation as a friend. The traditional business model would be [...]