adrian monck

Month: March 2007

  • Arab media

    Larry Pintak, former CBS News correspondent and now Director of Journalism at the American University in Cairo, has started an online journal called Arab Media and Society – it’s full of interesting stuff, including this interview with Hosam El Sokkari, head of the Beeb’s new Arabic TV channel.

  • Eyetracking for online journalism

    Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review has an interesting take-out on the lessons of eyetracking research for page design. There’s a comparison from one of the researchers between the New York Times and the BBC sites: I like the [NYT] content and the way they present it. The titles are succinct and look clearly like links –…

  • "Investing" in journalism

    Britain’s National Union of Journalists commissioned a study into the Trinity Mirror newspaper group. Here’s how the NUJ followed through: The NUJ is calling for the National Assembly for Wales to summon Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey to answer tough questions after an in-depth academic study exposed the serious threat to the future of quality…

  • 18 Doughty Street in Time

    Yours truly on IPTV 18 Doughty Street with Zoe Phillips. Time magazine did a piece on them this week. I’m pictured listening awestruck to a bloke from Devil’s Kitchen (a blog where “potty mouths meet potty politics”) – well, apparently he wasn’t impressed with me much either.