Month: November 2008

  • Saving journalism, one summit at a time

    Like Jeff Jarvis, I too was in Dubai for the World Economic Forum‘s inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda. Charlie Beckett (whose upsummer is here) and I were in the Future of Media group. So what was our diagnosis of the state of journalism? Well, here it is. We did talk about censorship and values…

  • Unrequired Reading {6.11.08 to 11.11.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • Unrequired Reading {5.11.08 to 6.11.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • To Dubai

    Like Prof Jarvis, I’m heading to Dubai today for the World Economic Forum‘s Summit on the Global Agenda. I’m on the council considering the future of the media, which – I predict – will be one of the most parochial, since media, despite its pretensions to globalism, is still so profoundly tied up with culture…