adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Microsoft to Newspapers: You made information free. For Google.

    Microsoft‘s top Intellectual Property chap, Tom Rubin, had some interesting points to make at the UK AOP: Starting back in the early 1990s, some leading Internet pundits espoused the motto “information wants to be free” and implored content owners to simply give away their content and monetize it through secondary means – such as concerts…

  • Emma Crosby

    Congratulations to Emma Crosby, moving from Sky News to the GMTV sofa. I hope she won’t mind my recalling one tiny slip of the tongue – on a very busy day – that caused Sinn Féin‘s Martin McGuinness to tap his earpiece in genuine surprise. “We’re joined now by Martin McGuinness from Champagne…”

  • The anonymous pride of BNP members

    From the BBC News website: a proud, but anonymous, British National Party member. Oh, the irony.

  • Job-hunting for young journalists

    Advice doesn’t come any better than this – from the excellent Editorialiste: Send in applications everywhere you think you’ve got a shot — then prove it to each company in your application. It’s worth the time to tailor your application, even if you never hear back. When you’ve sent out all that you can, send…