adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Guardian: in America, not in American

    Launches today. It is in America, but not in American. Which to me is a missed opportunity, given my previous solo campaign (actually blog post) to adopt American English as the online standard. Although English (US) has its uglinesses, the Americans care far more about English than we do, as Inigo Thomas admits in his…

  • The return of News At Ten

    Now, at least, I can say to people under 30 that I once worked on News At Ten and they won’t gaze blankly back at me. (Then again, maybe it’s just the way I say it.)So if you wondered where the Dermot-sized gap at Sky News was coming from, now you know. Julie Etchingham will…

  • Happy birthday, blog

    This blog is officially a year old. A year on, Sitemeter reckons this blog has clocked up about 27,000 users, just over 2,000 a month. There seem to be about 250 subscribers. It was always my intention to build this up as a media property, and then sell it on. An online auction should be…

  • Blood at the Beeb

    There is an upside to the dark times at the BBC: more factual output will be gathered around “totemic” brands such as Panorama and The One Show. Thank God! Jeremy Vine’s links and The One Show are safe! What is television for, asked Jeremy Paxman. There’s your answer mate.