adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • The benefits of being informed

    I know being informed is great. I know too that journalism is frequently invoked as the vehicle through which societies keep that promise, but what difference do informed individuals make to public policy choices?

  • The Newsnight dilemma

    Jim Gray, formerly of Newsnight, presides over Channel 4 News. And Google‘s Peter Barron formerly of Newsnight, formerly of Channel 4 News, formerly of Newsnight leaves an empty editor’s chair. Wouldn’t Gray be the best person to fill it? And the fact that Gray would not for one moment take that seriously, tells you everything…

  • The informed citizen

    As the intellectual battle to provide business models for journalism continues, so that the informed citizen can carry on being – well – informed, I thought you might like to see the latest from my favourite American sociologist Michael Schudson on journalism and democracy. And whilst I was looking I came across this burst of…

  • Robert Peston’s sources

    To hear Robert Peston‘s account of the financial crisis you might wonder where he gets his information. He is a terrific reporter and seeker-out-of-scoops. But at what point does a journalist with really cut-glass sources stop being a journalist and start being – well – a cypher?