Tag: Google

  • A Media Micro-Mogul writes…

    Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s micro-mogul, usually has a nice line in online media business analysis. But here, alas, he disappoints [my italics]: 1. Get out of categories such as politics to which advertisers are averse.… media groups cannot afford in the current environment to fund their most noble missions; they should leave that to public-spirited…

  • The Newsnight dilemma

    Jim Gray, formerly of Newsnight, presides over Channel 4 News. And Google‘s Peter Barron formerly of Newsnight, formerly of Channel 4 News, formerly of Newsnight leaves an empty editor’s chair. Wouldn’t Gray be the best person to fill it? And the fact that Gray would not for one moment take that seriously, tells you everything…

  • Journalism and the law

    I like lawyers. They always smile, even when they’re not actually billing you. Big hats off to Andy Scott of the LSE‘s law department for bringing together a terrific cast of what we in journalism would – rather unimaginatively – call “top lawyers.” It was Chatham House rules, but the lawyers thought:

  • Newspapers and Google: Stockholm syndrome

    Jeff Jarvis pitches up this idea: What if newspapers handed over much of their work to Google? Edward [Roussel of the Telegraph] reasoned that Google already is the key distributor online. He said that Google is great at technology and newspapers aren’t and for the future, where are the best technologists going to go? Google.…