Category: News

  • Changing times

    Which subscription-based media group is hiring, hiring, hiring? Expanding rapidly across the globe at a time when competitors are laying off and lying low? The answer of course is Bloomberg, and when your 235,000 subscribers are some of the wealthiest individuals and institutions in the world you can afford to be ambitious. Wandering round its…

  • The professional shame of journalism

    Currently re-reading Primo Levi’s account of his experience of Auschwitz, The Drowned And The Saved. The pages have yellowed since I first read it back in 1987, the year Levi killed himself . We’re not good at reading books by victims. We seem to prefer protagonists, be they vain, wicked or shameless. In the chapter…

  • Betrayed? – some thoughts

    Please see an earlier post for discussion of the problems with the MoD’s approach. The title Betrayed? An Investigation comes from a soldier interviewed by ITV News reporter Emma Murphy. Emma’s package features an extended interview with an unidentified wounded soldier. The two quotes from the soldier (reproduced on the ITV News website) explain that…

  • ITV Gossip 2

    There’s more ITV gossip on Digital Spy. Although word was that a bid was coming together last week, it’s pretty easy to write ‘ITV bid expected’ and not exactly get found out, so no claims of credit here.