Category: Journalism

  • Print and online strategies: a UK perspective

    So another account of the state of newspapers from a thoughtful British news exec, Chatham House rules. The key themes and claims (my thoughts in itals):

  • News channel showdown: BBC News vs. Sky News

    I have been meaning to post for a while on the impact of Freeview on Sky News viewing. Freeview launched in November 2002, offering a set-top box for viewers who didn’t want Sky.

  • Is there anything special about online newspapers?

    Ryan Sholin – host of this month’s Carnival of Journalism – has a question: “What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” What does special on the web look like?

  • An evening with a TV news legend

    Nick Owen interviewed Stewart Purvis last night, with Stewart talking through some of his favourite pieces from a career that spans over thirty years in journalism. It isn’t putting it too strongly to say that Purvis is the single most influential British TV journalist of that time (not that he’s in pipe and slippers –…