An old man remembers Fleet Street

I fin­ished col­lege at twenty-two. I was going to do six months train­ing on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of com­pet­it­ive journ­al­ism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn. Con­tinue read­ing

Stakeholder syndrome

If you want an illus­tra­tion of the bril­liance and fra­gil­ity of the blo­go­sphere, take a look at Ofcom­watch. It’s a blog about the world of UK com­mu­nic­a­tions reg­u­la­tion which, let’s face it, is about as effer­ves­cent as a day-old glass of Alkaseltzer, and the bulk of its posts are the heroic work of Russ Taylor. Con­tinue read­ing

Live blogging: Future of Public Service Broadcasting

Lon­don Busi­ness School: David Cur­rie, out­go­ing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital reg­u­lator) chair­man. Con­tinue read­ing

How to engineer an Anglo-Russian rapprochement

Arrange a meet­ing at a sum­mit. Prior to the meet­ing, ensure gov­ern­ment offi­cials drop reas­sur­ing hints about the need to improve relations:

Rus­sia now poses its biggest threat to Bri­tain since the Cold War, accord­ing to secur­ity sources. MI5 fears that Bri­tain has been swamped with spies since the break­down of rela­tions over the tit-for-tat accus­a­tions over the pois­on­ing of former KGB officer Alex­an­der Litv­inenko. [Tele­graph]

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