A story in the Independent today suggests that Dispatches on Channel 4 tonight will be well worth watching. The programme, on the third anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, is called, “I shouldn’t happen to a Muslim”.
The Independent story is from a pamphlet by Peter Oborne, who presents Dispatches this evening, and James Jones. It tells [...]
Milking mature business that have tipped into decline for maximum profits is an age-old strategy. We have been watching it for some time in newspapers but I have seldom seen it put so clearly as by Alan Ruddock in the Observer today who describes it as, “probably the only sensible approach“.
Ruddock, who is standing in [...]
The World Editor’s Forum asked five newspaper designers to pick their Top 5 newspaper website designs. Two were from the UK — the Guardian and The Times. Via Mindy McAdams who would like to add BBC News although its not a newspaper site.
Evan Davis has raised an issue of huge importance to journalism: to what extent were we complicit in events leading up to the credit crunch. He was talking at the Radio Festival in Glasgow yesterday, but a Google News search suggests only the Guardian and the Press Gazette reported the event.
Davis, the former BBC economics [...]
Earlier today I mentioned the fall in the value of shares in Gannett, the American owners of Newsquest. Now I read at Reflections of a Newsosaur (via Romenesco) that the value of 11 US newspaper companies has dropped by $23bn in the first half of this year.
This is more than a credit crunch thing as [...]
While many see the future of news as being very local, The Northern Echo is cutting three of its five area editions. Five journalists will not be replaced when they leave.
Hold the Front Page quotes “the editor” (Peter Barron, I presume) as saying the move towards two editions, covering the north and south of the [...]
Two remarkably similar comments about Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, have been made 6,000 miles apart. The first is from today’s Guardian and the second from the Southeast Asian Press Alliance on March 19.
Instead of frankly explaining their position and/or engaging in a public dialogue Tesco has taken the extraordinary step of suing for libel [...]
With James Murdoch confirmed as the heir apparent of his father’s News Corporation business there is much speculation about the future of the media empire he is destined to run.
Possibly the most significant indicator this year of the way in which News Corp will move has been the $5bn purchase of Dow Jones which [...]
There must have been a joker at the British Comedy Awards on Thursday night. The evidence is in the Guardian’s corrections column today. In the absence of any explanation of how their reporter came to write that the Turner Prize Winner, Mark Wallinger, was at the awards in a bear suit and introduced as “Muhammad”, [...]
I have long avoided making predictions about the future because the one thing I have learned is that they ae invariably wrong.
Reading David Leigh, an assistant editor of th Guardian, yesterday on the question of whether reporters are doomed, I hoped my theory stands up this time.
The media and journalism is certainly changing and a [...]
