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My City University colleague Neil Thurman has been busy looking at the impact of British news websites in the United States. And maybe it’s time for the tipping of web pages into the Second Life equivalent of Boston Harbour. Here’s what he found: — Online, the BBC News website gets more US readers than Fox News, […]
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My old favourite professional aphorism is this: a journalist’s duty is to betray. It neatly and bitterly encapsulates the moral, emotional and intellectual problems of reporting. But it’s not a tag to be repeated with pride, more of a dirty industrial secret. Last night Mohamed Chebaro, of Al Arabiya and a veteran of international news reporting, came up with […]
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Podcasts get a shot across the bows from ‘viewspaper’ editor and accomplished controversialist Simon Kelner: Kelner is endearingly contemptuous of multi– platform journalism, especially when it comes to pod and vodcasts. “I’ve never met anyone who ever listens to pod– casts,” he explodes. “When I saw in the Telegraph ‘Get your podcast of Simon Heffer discussing David […]
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Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party — well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into my head. But I had a quick trawl back […]
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Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It’s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story — a story covered with considerable […]
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As Andrew Grant-Adamson has pointed to the Indy’s blog drought, here’s a piece from the AJR on blogs and newspapers.
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