British fashion designers, musicians, artists, graphic designers, film makers and actors are responsible for one of the most remarkable economic feats in history, if you believe the spin put on the so-called “creative industries”. This sector of the economy is the third largest employer in the country, the second in London where only the financial [...]
The place where the web was invented is to be preserved. I am talking not about the world wide web but the web which revolutionised news in the 19th century. The invention of continuous paper making by the Fourdrinier brothers at Frogmore, near Hemel Hempstead, paved the way for modern newspapers.
The Times yesterday reported the [...]
The story, I hope apocryphal, of the TV crew who went to a group of refugees in Africa and asked: “Has anyone here been raped and speak English?” has long illustrated complaints of insensitive journalism. A report in The Independent today about a magazine writer seeking photogenic war widows runs it pretty close.
According to [...]
Hewlett-Packard’s leak investigation began earlier than previously thought and involved spying on journalists from four publications. Silicon Valley Watcher has a good synopsis of the latest article in the New York Times.
It seems reporters from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNET and Business Week were all spied on by private detectives working [...]
With the Economist and others predicting the end of newspapers as we know them attention has been on the rush of announcements about the development of the news web offerings. There is the Telegraph’s sexy newsroom, The Times’s interesting appointments of new staff, Johnston Press’s multi-media newsrooms and more.
Amid all this it is easy to [...]
It was a cartoon which finally led to the closure of the Iran’s reformist daily Shargh, according to Reporters Sans Frontiérs. The ominously named Commission for Authorising and Monitoring the Press, part of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, has closed two magazines, Nameh and Hazef, as well as Shargh.
The commission claimed 70 [...]
Country Life must have been a journalistic revolution when it was launched in 1897. I have been looking at pages featuring a moated Suffolk house published little more than a year later and was struck by the space devoted to photographs which was innovative at the time.
I was looking at it because the January 1899 [...]
Every editor knows that sex sells but unless you get the balance right readers can be alienated. Golf Course News has, it seems, got that balance completely wrong when it relaunched three months ago.
One example was a scantily clad model with a flaming golf ball between her breasts on the cover to illustrate a feature [...]
Literary feuds are always great fun for the spectators, non more so that between John Betjeman’s biographers Bevis Hillier and A N Wilson. Yesterday, in The Sunday Times Hillier put his hand up and admitted what we all “knew”, that he was the author of the hoax that fooled Wilson.
The review pages of British newspapers [...]
“The question of why anyone agrees to be profiled by Lynn Barber is a curious one,” writes Toby Young who is under the interviewer’s scalpel in today’s Observer magazine.
The man who the magazine’s standfirst describes as “the shameless self-publicist whom the media world loves to loathe” got his retaliation in first in a page on [...]
