Category: Journalism

  • Which countries does the NYT cover most and least?

    Which countries does the New York Times cover most and least? The Gene Expression blog set out to provide an answer. Here it is: [HT: Tyler Cowen]

  • Preserving journalism

    Listen hard. You too may be able to hear the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar that Sophocles heard long ago on the Aegean. A few years ago I did an MBA. One of my goals was to try and find a sustainable business model for something I had given my life to – television news. You’ll…

  • Can audiences ever be wrong?

    At the BBC Editor’s blog Rod McKenzie asks if the Ross and Brand case is an open and shut case? When we started covering the story on Newsbeat – the audience response was running two-to-one in Ross’s and Brand’s favour – now it’s swelled to six-to-one.

  • Notes on Jeremy Hunt, Shadow DCMS Secretary.

    No party would set up a system like the licence fee, but the licence fee is here to stay. “It works in practice, how can we get it to work in theory?” Method of collection of the licence fee may have to change. But principle of household tax ring-fenced to support leading Public Service Broadcasters/Broadcasting…