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An Unreliable History of the News in 500 words
Ever wondered where the modern news media started? Germany, 1450s – Johann Gutenberg invents movable type printing and brings out the Bible. Problem with the Bible? You only buy it once. New translations keep presses rolling. They also raise political problems (like Tyndale‘s translation in England). Readers can use their Bible to make up their…
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Diagram of a blog by Paula Scher
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Ofcom – useless or toothless?
The silence over job cuts at ITN is a reminder of: the lack of political will to take public service commitments seriously and the failure of the the regulator. My personal experience (disclosure: I left the company in 2004) is that ITN is an incredibly tightly run ship. It doesn’t generate profits to pay for…
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Content – more burger than king
I spent yesterday at the BBC in Manchester talking to some interesting people, many of whom want to build businesses providing content of one kind or another. So I gave my gloomy look at the content creation business, pointing to Monday’s supply squeeze at ITN, and Scott Karp’s post on NBC Universal/News Corp deal, and…