adrian monck

Month: August 2007

  • Computer Assisted Reporting tool

    Although it is only available for Windows and Linux this looks like a very useful tool. It’s called Kirix Strata and is a data browser that’s currently in beta. I’ll have to wait for a Mac version.

  • Extra-judicial killing and Islam

    Dispatches reporter Phil Rees last night made much of a purportedly rather dangerous sounding man in glasses and a scarf, giving his rather dangerous sounding interpretation of the Qu’ran. Rees’s justification? Journalists need to present the views of radical Muslims in a way that does not push them toward further violence. Journalism has a duty…

  • Talking politics 2

    A brief review of my efforts on Talking Politics from David Preiser at Biased BBC. And it’s a case of “you can’t please all of the people…” I found the defenders of the BBC to be – as expected – quite defensive. Prof. Monck clearly lives in the same ivory tower as Director Helen Boaden,…

  • Singing the news…

    One early journalistic platform that has thankfully gone uncopied for centuries is the news ballad. Ending stories with a hey-nonny-nonny instead of a sign-off is not about to win over key demographics, nor do I think a Reuters-by-rhyme service is in the offing, but in the sixteenth century the popular medium for news was song.…