adrian monck

Month: January 2007

  • Saddam’s execution video

    Such is the nature of old media that Saddam’s execution video still spins the discussion wheels. The UK’s Independent sees it as evidence of a massive shift in the ability of individuals to influence the news agenda…etc. etc. The video actually tells us just two things about the hanging: It was badly organized Executions aren’t…

  • As Andrew Grant-Adamson has pointed to the Indy‘s blog drought, here’s a piece from the AJR on blogs and newspapers.

  • Crunch Time

    In case you wonder what the book link on the right is all about – here’s an interview trail I just did with video journalism guru David Dunkley Gyimah. Hopefully it explains it all a little. We did it at BAFTA, which has just announced it’s dropping current affairs from its roster of TV awards.…

  • Academic interest

    One of the smartest and most sensible social scientists writing about journalism and the news is Michael Schudson. He has a piece in the Cuadernos de Información (N°19, 2006) which is published by the Communications Faculty at Santiago’s massive Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It’s called The Anarchy of Events and the Anxiety of Story…