Category: Media

  • The Future of News Media

    To the Westminster Media Forum to talk about The Future of News Media. Hopefully, for the students, there is one. With charter review complete and the licence fee about to be set, no-one from the BBC is in attendance. But with a huge percentage of the jobs in broadcast and online news being in said…

  • EasyJet and Today

    Had to blog Greg Wood‘s interview with the CEO of low-cost airline EasyJet on Today this morning. Harrison PRed mercilessly for EasyJet. You can listen to him here. It was obvious Greg had spent much less time and money preparing for the interview than Harrison. There’s an asymmetric war going on, as our military pals…

  • Sound and fury…

    According to Manchester University’s Piers Robinson – that’s him on the right – British media coverage of the Iraq War was not “autonomous in its approach to the official narratives and justifications for the war in Iraq.” Good work Piers! That should render your findings fairly inaccessible. Want more? Coverage of the war was narrated…

  • Al Jazeera English

    A small bar near Grays Inn Road has hosted a succession of farewell drinks over the past weeks and months. I was in for a small reunion, but soon former colleagues began popping up for a double whammy – another leaving do. ITV News has been a great recruiting ground for Al Jazeera English. Senior…