Jon Snow, the main presenter of Channel’s evening news, has started a blog. There is nothing particularly insightful or revelatory so far but I have great hopes for the thoughts of the presenter of what is probably the best UK evening news programme.
The alluring smell of hot metal first got to me as a teenager when I visited the home of my best friend — the flat in an ancient timber-framed town centre building which also housed the office and works of the Banbury Guardian.
My friend’s father edited the paper and had only to go downstairs to [...]
The intro on Jeff Jarvis’s Digital Media column in the Guardian today had a familiar ring. It was, given a bit of subbing to sharpen it up, the same as one on his blog on July 10.
Is this testing the argument or, in the web jargon, some form of “crowd-sourcing” or a kind of informal [...]
Jeff Jarvis, in the most recent addendum to his latest polemic, Google as the new press room, says: “I’m causing confusion aplenty”. He sure is — thinking as the responses to his latest post come in. Not unusual for Jarvis.
The centre of his argument is that newspapers are bad at technology so they should [...]
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 [...]
Trinity Mirror’s newspapers are getting close to worthless but the web business is worth buying, Peter Kirwan argues in the Press Gazette’s Media Money blog. From the company numbers he arrives at a figure for digital revenue and then makes a five year forecast on the basis of current projections for the growth in online [...]
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.
Stories about the dangers of using find and replace on copy have been around ever since writers started using word processors, but I like this one from the Carpetbagger Report.
The American Families Association apparently uses this technique as a matter of course, which resulted in the headline on some AP copy becoming, “Homosexual eases into [...]
How the use of a fold up keyboard and a mobile phone to file copy from a courtroom — because the judge might consider a laptop too obtrusive — would go down in England I don’t know. But Ron Sylvester’s account of using technology to cover a murder case in Kansas is fascinating.
Pity then, that [...]
The forthcoming departure of Roger Alton from the Observer is starting the produce a fascinating debate. At its heart is whether the web sites are taking over as the central element of traditional newspaper businesses.
First Patience Wheatcroft said her farewells at the Sunday Telegraph. Last week the Observer’s Alton was “defenestrated” as Stephen Glover puts [...]
