adrian monck

Month: May 2007

  • No comment

    At the Guardian the executive editor of comment has announced that the current comment editor is becoming associate editor of comment, whilst the deputy editor of comment is moving up to become full comment editor. Comment, comment, comment…

  • The unintended influence of Rupert Murdoch

    The influence of Rupert Murdoch is a subject of much discussion online. Personally, I’m in agreement with Felix Salmon of Market Movers, who wrote: [W]here editorial independence is valuable, Murdoch values it. Where it isn’t, he doesn’t. So even if he’s interfered in editorial decisions in China in the past, that doesn’t mean he’ll do…

  • Thomson buys Reuters

    Thomson buys Reuters. And whilst we all expect decency to prevail, I can’t help thinking that the first line of the Reuters Trust is this: that Reuters shall at no time pass into the hands of any one interest, group or faction Thoughts anyone?

  • Featurizing hard news

    Kevin Allman blogs on a practice creeping into American journalism that I would suspect has come directly from television news: I was having dinner with a group that included a few journalists when the topic turned to “featurizing” hard news – the increasingly common practice of burying the lede under “human interest” details in hopes…