adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Britain’s free online news battle…

    The biggest freesheet battle in the British media is being conducted online. According to the latest stats, the online versions of the Guardian and the Times have both moved up the website ratings. Guardian Unlimited got 16m unique users last month. Over the same period Timesonline.co.uk claimed 11m unique users. Both of these are part…

  • Sky mistake over the news?

    Sky aren’t usually naive, but they’ve lost a lot of potential good will trying to dump the RTS “news channel of the year” from Freeview and then running this ad to kick Virgin…

  • Should news inform or entertain?

    Munir Umrani, at the Blogging Journalist, picks up on the debate over news – should it inform or entertain? Let me put that question into a news genre and see if it works… Should sports news entertain and inform – or both? Results, columnists, previews, “exclusives” – match reports and analysis. The genre has it…

  • Jeff Matthews masterclass

    Jeff Matthews is good. If you’re not familiar with his work, one of the world’s best occasional columnists shows off his art right here. Regular columnists, and even irregular ones like me, can hang our heads in shame.