adrian monck

Month: April 2008

  • Fun with metrics

    Metrics, metrics, metrics. Don’t you just love them? E&P quotes the latest Nielsen figures out showing how long people spend at news sites. Brand or Channel — Mar. ’08 Time per Person (hh:mm:ss) — Mar. ’07 Time per Person March 07 (hh:mm:ss) NYTimes.com — 0:37:14 — 0:33:48USATODAY.com — 0:11:26 — 0:17:50washingtonpost.com — 0:16:15 — 0:18:01Wall…

  • BBC News: Crime Time

  • The Trust Obsession

    CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t…

  • A news map of the United States

    Love this map [HT: Howard Weaver], which plotted 72,000 wire stories between 1994 and 1998. In population terms Chicago should be half the size of New York, but it comes out at only a fifth the size. But when your biggest cultural achievement is pizza, only doughier…