What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times’ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command:
Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us through a normal work day for The Times’s executive editor?
— Devin Banerjee, Stanford, Calif. Continue reading
If you wanted a sign of the growing importance of the UK news media in reporting US politics (a phenomenon supported by Matt Drudge, the now global online market in English language news, and the largely apolitical US press), here it is.
Media Matters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebuttal service, turns its powerful fisking attention to this Times report. Continue reading
Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch’s Boyer lecture — The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands.
But here it is:
Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet: banks, retailers, phone companies and so on. But these sectors also see the internet as an extraordinary opportunity. But among our journalistic friends are some misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opportunity. Continue reading
The Financial Times has a trenchant critique of BBC Worldwide and its impact on the public service broadcasting debate.
But who exactly is the person ‘familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking’ that they quote? Or the leading London banker? Don’t be tempted by the obvious jigsaw identification.
A person familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking says: “The success of Worldwide has arguably threatened the BBC’s future more than anything else in recent times, by simultaneously providing an image – possibly illusory, possibly not – of great wealth and a yardstick, also possibly illusory, of supposedly anti-competitive behaviour.” Continue reading
Remember the majestically ireful email from irked restaurant reviewer Giles Coren to his copy editors at the Times? Continue reading
British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms and analysis. Continue reading