adrian monck

Month: April 2007

  • Proliferating Pulitzers

    There are few prizes in journalism as famous as the Pulitzers. But now in their 90th year (but launching their 91st awards), they illustrate a tendency all too frequent in awards – inflation. Back in 1917 there were just three categories of journalism gong: public service, reporting and editorial writing. Now there are fourteen. Everyone…

  • Alan Johnston

    This just in: Hello Adrian, I work at the BBC News website … I saw your recent post about creating a blog button for Alan Johnston. It was a good idea, so we’ve launched one on the editors’ blog today. ThanksAaron_____ Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

  • Will democracy collapse without journalism to provide political information?

    Just blogged a post on that very subject at the End of Journalism site – more optimistic than it sounds. You can read it here, but here’s an excerpt: [D]o we need journalism to inform people’s limited choices? In the 1950s, an economist called Anthony Downs argued that the democratic system did not incentivize voters…

  • The web is a 24/7 news environment…

    A day after Don Imus is fired by CBS, the Guardian brings us Alexander Chancellor‘s timely take on the story: Day late, dollar short? Someone needs to reread that Alan Rusbridger 24/7 memo. OK, cheap shot over.