adrian monck

Month: March 2007

  • PR vs Journalism

    Journalists rely increasingly on PR handouts. Take a paper as prestigious and high-minded as the New York Times. When researchers analysed a day’s output, they found 147 out of 255 stories came from flacks. An executive from ad agency J.Walter Thompson reckons 60% of the NYT‘s stories come from PR. The problem is industry wide.…

  • Reporting Iraq – 2007

    I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don’t want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that – what troubles me most personally, is when I see children hurt – and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and…

  • In praise of podcasts

    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…

  • The future of journalism: stories 2

    You have to love the Internet. Just as I was wondering what Edward Tufte had to offer journalism, along comes Danny Sanchez with a blog about Hans Rosling. Rosling’s concern is presenting complex health information graphically – you can see him in action from February 2006 here. Update: Rosling is in the news because he’s…