adrian monck

Month: November 2008

  • The Magnificent Folly of Great American News Reporting

    I don’t know John Crewdson, but I’m sorry he’s out of a job. He’s the subject of this post at the Chicago Reader: The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded last month to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris for discovering the HIV virus in 1983 – but not to…

  • Rupert Murdoch on the future of newspapers

    Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch‘s Boyer lecture – The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands. But here it is: Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet:…

  • Unrequired Reading {13.11.08}

    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:

  • Basic Google search: still baffling some journalists

    In a post entitled Want to Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday? Don’t Read Portfolio, the Wall Street Journal‘s Peter Kafka points out that Portfolio media blogger Jeff Bercovici had to pull down a story obtained under Chatham House rules. Some MediaMemo readers have asked me to reprint all of Bercovici’s story, but I don’t…