adrian monck

Month: December 2007

  • Can political ads save commercial TV news?

    In the US presidential elections in 2008 just over a billion dollars will go into ad slots in local newscasts. It’s a spend that’s second only to car ads (in case you wondered what was more important to Americans than politics – it is driving). I think there’s a lesson here for UK television news.…

  • Journalism on journalism

    Feel like you’re living in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year or Don DeLillo’s Libra? On the back of reviewing Gordon Burns’ novel that, according to the blurb: has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media…

  • Newsgathering online: the missing canoeist

    From the Guardian: A single mother put police and journalists to shame in their attempts to unravel the mysterious reappearance of the canoeist John Darwin by using a simple Google search, it emerged today… It was found by the anonymous woman after she tapped in the words “John, Anne and Panama” into Google. She then…

  • Belly dancing bylines

    Who was the reporter whose byline was borrowed by Con Coughlin (according to Andrew Gilligan) for a story on belly-dancing assassins? Well, the mysterious member of staff was none other than award-winning foreign reporter Christina Lamb, then diplomatic correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph. Can Lamb shed any light on the mystery?