Wednesday, 4 February, 2009
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 […]
Thursday, 22 January, 2009
I was one of the people interviewed for Andrew Currah’s What’s Happening to Our News, which is out today. Don’t let that put you off. Andrew’s an economic geographer - different, I guess, from a geographic economist - maybe it’s an economist who knows where he is.
In the Jerusalem Post, Mitchell Barak calls for an Israeli Al Jazeera English.
Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza.
As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under attack himself, […]
Wednesday, 7 January, 2009
If you wondered whether declining viewers and corporate belt tightening had a real on-screen resourcing impact on network news coverage, check out Andrew Tyndall on the nets and Gaza:
In the summer of 2006, when the Israel Defense Force headed north to fight with the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon, all three networks found the conflict so […]
Wednesday, 7 January, 2009
Whatever ones views of the rights and wrongs, Israel’s media operation to accompany its Gaza offensive has been an object lesson in the uses and limitations of War 2.0.
Talking to a senior Middle Eastern diplomat yesterday, and to a friend reporting from (or stuck) in Jerusalem, there is a (very) grudging - respect is the […]
Monday, 15 December, 2008
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.