adrian monck

Month: December 2008

  • Democracy and the media go together like…

    Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences). Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone…

  • Marketing, General Motors and the news business

    Does marketing offer any insights into business problems – especially those of the news business? Most old school journalists would put marketers in with snake oil salesmen, but marketers can be savvy analysts. Ignore them at your peril. Here’s marketing ace – and my old Dean from London Business School – John Quelch analysing what…

  • Unrequired Reading {11.12.08 to 12.12.08}

    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:

  • British Political TV ads – courtesy of Europe?

    The European Court of Human Rights could be greenlighting the kind of political advertising that the United States has grown used to. Russ Taylor at Ofcomwatch alerted me to the ruling. My caveats? The Government doesn’t want it Newspapers don’t want it Political parties can’t afford it.