Category: News

  • Sky News – ‘The Day The Whale Came To London’

    Watching Sky News tonight (8pm), I’m reminded of this famous post: Schedule. Fill. Someone?

  • 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.