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Are 18-24 year olds just not news consumers?
Online readership figures have just come out from Nielsen/Net Ratings for February (see Jack Loechner‘s post for more). I may be missing something but they seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren’t natural news…
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An Unreliable History of the News in 500 words
Ever wondered where the modern news media started? Germany, 1450s – Johann Gutenberg invents movable type printing and brings out the Bible. Problem with the Bible? You only buy it once. New translations keep presses rolling. They also raise political problems (like Tyndale‘s translation in England). Readers can use their Bible to make up their…
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Diagram of a blog by Paula Scher
From Paula Scher.
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Ofcom – useless or toothless?
The silence over job cuts at ITN is a reminder of: the lack of political will to take public service commitments seriously and the failure of the the regulator. My personal experience (disclosure: I left the company in 2004) is that ITN is an incredibly tightly run ship. It doesn’t generate profits to pay for…