Does Sky News want to run the World Service? Well, it does in Australia. According to the the Sydney Morning Herald: A dispute has erupted between the ABC and the subscription television industry, triggered by a call by the pay TV channel Sky News for taxpayer-funded broadcasters to compete with the private sector for government…

More on the ‘micropayments for news’ debate, this time from Wharton biz school profs: Newspapers and magazines, saddled with high fixed costs and high distribution costs, have been hit by both the free culture online and the ease with which their product – which is costly to produce but easy to copy and paste –…

How many times have you read democracy will suffer without journalism to keep it honest? I gave up counting a long time ago. But the most powerful anecdotal (of course!) reformulation of this hoary nostrum comes from David Simon in the Washington Post. In the course of railing against a ‘cover-up’ in the Baltimore Police…

I had the good luck to meet Colonel Richard Iron a couple of months ago. He was the kind of typically self-effacing British Army officer who one underestimates at ones peril. Iron currently commands the UK Army’s Doctrine Branch in the Directorate of Land Warfare. His philosophy is summed in something he told the Telegraph…