Category: Journalism

  • Talking about Rupert Murdoch

    Mark Bowden talks about his excellent Murdoch piece over at the Atlantic. Talking about your piece is cynically considered one of those ways to squeeze the last bit of juice out of editorial. But it does also allow you to address issues that couldn’t be expanded in the original. I think it works better with…

  • Google, privacy and ‘the record’

    When should or shouldn’t you alter the record? Should you take back the news? After the Westminster Media Forum (2, 3, 4) here’s a US take from the news frontline with Mike Orren, of Dallas-Fort Worth website Pegasus News:

  • Don’t quote me: AP – US$2.50 a word to bloggers

    Boy, has AP picked a lousy battleground in the online war. If you want to know what it regards as fair use of its material, take a look at its price menu below (and – ok – you’ll have to squint).

  • TV News: more pseudo than post-modern?

    Renaissance VC Fred Wilson thinks we’re living in a pseudo-modern – although he prefers the term ‘participativist’ – era. Even the news can’t escape!