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Networked Journalism
I’m trading City University, London for City University, New York to attend Jeff Jarvis and Dave Cohn’s heroically organised Networked Journalism Summit. I’ll be talking about our modest efforts and looking forward to hanging out with people who understand the concept rather better than me. Jay Rosen has already posted some of his thoughts: Division…
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Roger Ailes, the Jackie Mason of news
I can’t help myself. I have great admiration for Roger Ailes. Take a look at these clips that didn’t make the cut from a Wall Street Journal interview transcript: WSJ: Your best friend and longtime colleague, Chet Collier, died recently. What are some of the things you learned from Chet – either about the television…
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John Simpson: wrong and right about TV news
From John Simpson: All the signs are that British people are simply becoming less interested in the world around them. Once upon a time, we used to think that this kind of isolationism was something particularly American, like high levels of crime, the possession of guns and wide-scale drug addiction. Americans weren’t interested much in…
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Losing Kaplinsky
A source close to Natasha Kaplinsky tells MediaGuardian that she’s trousering £1m a year to join five. BBC insiders reckon Kaplinsky’s loss was the real reason Peter Fincham quit. Five’s news supremo Chris Shaw hammers the keyboard on behalf of the MediaGuardian fairly regularly, so you’d think they’d get a quote off him – but…