Category: News

  • As Andrew Grant-Adamson has pointed to the Indy‘s blog drought, here’s a piece from the AJR on blogs and newspapers.

  • Crunch Time

    In case you wonder what the book link on the right is all about – here’s an interview trail I just did with video journalism guru David Dunkley Gyimah. Hopefully it explains it all a little. We did it at BAFTA, which has just announced it’s dropping current affairs from its roster of TV awards.…

  • Academic interest

    One of the smartest and most sensible social scientists writing about journalism and the news is Michael Schudson. He has a piece in the Cuadernos de Información (N°19, 2006) which is published by the Communications Faculty at Santiago’s massive Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It’s called The Anarchy of Events and the Anxiety of Story…

  • A second look at Second Life

    Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with – well, there’s no way to say this delicately – animated flying penises.Second Life – let the backlash begin. Back in December, the Second…