adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Risk

    Charlie Beckett blogs on reporting risk – reason enough to punt forward one of my favourite books on the subject by John Adams, called – unconfusingly – Risk. Go on treat yourself. One for every journalist’s bookshelf. Not that we have bookshelves any more, but you know what I mean…

  • Journalism’s coverage crisis

    One of my favourite annual reads, the Project for Excellence in Journalism‘s State of the Media report, is published today. OK I need to get out more – but it’s packed full of interesting stuff. Here’s one of the snippets: There is already evidence that basic monitoring of local government has suffered. Regional concerns, as…

  • BBC vs Authority

    In the Independent, in a piece that is part-op-ed, part reportage, Tim Luckhurst questions the BBC‘s cautious reaction to its cash-for-honours story. A couple of interesting questions arise: Defending the corporation on Radio 4’s Today programme last week, the deputy director-general, Mark Byford, said any notion the BBC was “sitting back” was “absolutely untrue.” It…

  • Online news and advertising…

    Depressing news (not that we didn’t know it) from our friends in the VC business: To get to $50m in revenue you would need 50 billion pageviews in a year, or just over 4 billion per month. The BBC gets a billion pageviews a month. On the figures above, that would bring in about $12.5m…