Author: Adrian Monck

  • Currently reading Arop Madut-Arop‘s Sudan’s Painful Road to Peace: A Full Story of the Founding and Development of SPLM/SPLA.

  • BBC ‘acquisitions’ saga

    Rafat Ali takes The Guardian to task for their BBC exclusive: The BBC has set up a £350m war chest for expansion into social networking on the internet and international acquisitions, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. He points out that in September 2006, the Mail on Sunday reported: BBC Worldwide is looking to take on commercial media…

  • News: "a really expensive, exhaustive exercise…"

    Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It’s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story — a…

  • A quick look at what to expect on Al Jazeera Documentary…any feedback from Middle Eastern viewers welcome.