-
How valuable are newspapers? The WSJ has a rough idea. Take the Minneapolis Star Tribune, America’s 15th largest-selling paper, moving nearly 360,000 copies. In 1998, America’s third biggest newspaper group, McClatchy Co., paid well over a billion dollars to own the Star Tribune. On Boxing Day, a private equity firm agreed to buy it off…
-
Crude Journalism
I‘m not used to getting dedications in books, but I am especially proud of getting a mention (albeit barely deserved) in Alao Adedayo‘s Crude Journalism: The History of Alaroye and African Indigenous Language Newspapers. Don’t be put off by the sub-title this is a rollicking good read – like Rousseau‘s Confessions. It tells the story…
-
Pakistan’s Dawn news group is launching the country’s first English language news channel in 2007. They’ve hired an exec from Geo News TV to get it going.
-
Al Jazeera long form
Al Jazeera will launch a new channel, Al Jazeera Documentary, on 1 January, 2007. For the past two years they have run a documentary film festival, the third is coming up this April. Entries can be in either Arabic or English.Al Jazeera already runs stand alone programme strands on both their Arabic and English news…