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What’s Happening to Our News
I was one of the people interviewed for Andrew Currah‘s What’s Happening to Our News, which is out today. Don’t let that put you off. Andrew’s an economic geographer – different, I guess, from a geographic economist – maybe it’s an economist who knows where he is.
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Steve Jobs, Apple and Fair Disclosure
How much information should companies be expected to make public on issues like – say – their CEO’s health? Individual exchanges have their own rules about disclosure. For example, the NASDAQ says its companies: “shall make prompt disclosure to the public through any Regulation FD compliant method (or combination of methods) of disclosure of any…
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Interpreting the Evening Standard acquisition
Two great conspiratorial minds analyse the Lebedev purchase of the Evening Standard, or Standard. First Peter Preston: It matters hugely to Lebedev whether he has to compete against the Lite and Murdoch’s thelondonpaper. (The signs are that he will.) It matters hugely to Associated to know whether a Lebedev Standard would turn itself into a…
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War 2.0: Israel, Twitter and YouTube
There’s a very good analysis of Israel‘s use of social media in its Gaza media operation here. The main point, that never ceases to be lost in practice, is that if you use a social media platform as a communications tool (or a weapon), it should be appropriate to the task. Israel’s use of Twitter…