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Doris Lessing on story telling
We are lucky enough to have Doris Lessing on the advisory board of our Creative Writing MA (the novels bit). Doris has got into trouble recently on the blogosphere. Put it aside. Read her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech – a wonderful piece of writing. And wisdom. Yes, it does come with age for some…
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Fighting terror on Facebook
Mike Rosenblum, the godfather of video journalism, has an interesting post on Facebook and its potential use by intelligence agencies as a means of mapping networks. I’m sure he doesn’t quite mean to go as far as this quote suggests, but you will get his drift: A few days ago, I typed in the name…
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Can political ads save commercial TV news?
In the US presidential elections in 2008 just over a billion dollars will go into ad slots in local newscasts. It’s a spend that’s second only to car ads (in case you wondered what was more important to Americans than politics – it is driving). I think there’s a lesson here for UK television news.…
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Journalism on journalism
Feel like you’re living in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year or Don DeLillo’s Libra? On the back of reviewing Gordon Burns’ novel that, according to the blurb: has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media…