Category: News

  • The ‘5 things’ thing

    With thanks to Martin, the ‘five things’ thing… Born in the house my grandparents rented from the council. Once hired Lara Logan… Paul Smith gave me my Paul Smith T-shirt. I took a call from an IRA bomber – codeword? ‘Marigold.’ Five journalists I worked with have been killed in Iraq. Matt, you’re tagged. Charlotte,…

  • In Web 1.0 Amazon-style, YouTube are apparently planning not further forays into the digital borderlands but a back to the future approach – YouTube Mulls Linear Channel.

  • Another changing of the guard. This time former BBC man Chris Cramer, of CNN International, has emailed staff to announce he’s stepping down.

  • Clive Jones

    Michael Grade has saved his first salary with the departure of Clive Jones. Not one to mince words, in closing the ITV News Channel Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was “a bleeding sore”. Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through ITV‘s ranks without stopping at ITN.…