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Zimbabwean travel journalism
The Zimbabwean tourist authority is looking to improve the country’s image. So who does it turn to? PRs? Lobbyists? No, travel writers. You know the kind of thing — “X travelled to the Gulag Archipelago as a guest of StalinTours.” Journalists to help market Zim tourism Fifteen European journalists, who are in the country on…
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Andrew Keen: cult of the contrarian
Martin Stabe must be on performance enhancing drugs – his posting levels are through the roof. It’s all good stuff, especially on the Richard Sambrook vs. Andrew Keen showdown at the Frontline. Keen’s new media vs. old media gamble is that infamy as the blogosphere’s contrarian punchbag will help sell his book. (Jeff Jarvis memorably…
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Endless amusement…
Rosie Boycott (onetime-Indie editor) got dumped from Hell’s Kitchen last night. With her final words, she summarised the difference between running a newspaper and a restaurant: in a restaurant you want to serve the same piece of lemon tart every night, on a newspaper you want every story to be different…it keeps you endlessly amused.…
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Why don’t books carry ads?
My holiday entertainment was watching an endless caravan of rain clouds cross the skies of a Breton peninsula. As an occasional diversion, I read a French guide book from 1909. Its pages were full of ads for grand hotels with casinos and spas where automobiles could be hired and fun could be had. All just…