adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • What would Jeff do?

    In case you happen to be a journalist and Jeff Jarvis still has you thinking that newspaper problems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy headlines, they don’t come much catchier than this): First U.S. Experiments in Electronic Newspapers Begin in Two Communities;…

  • The educated palate: a media lesson from a new Nobel prize winner

    Paul Krugman didn’t win the Nobel prize for economics for this. But maybe he should have. It’s a meditation on British food and why it was once so dreadful. (And there’s surely a lesson in there about education and media consumption.)

  • The return of content (subscription not included)

    About twenty years ago, I went to a farewell dinner for a young man who was leaving the UK to head for Korea. As a news action junkie, I was baffled. The Soviet Empire was in crisis. The Middle East in turmoil. And this guy was going to Seoul for the Financial Times? Still, gnawing…

  • Understanding the financial crisis 2

    Read The Economist Where Credit Risk is going from August, 2003. It’s subscription, of course. But now the global economy is going to hell, you may – bizarrely – feel more inclined to pay for a decent analysis of how it all went pear-shaped.