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Diagram of a blog by Paula Scher
From Paula Scher.
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Ofcom – useless or toothless?
The silence over job cuts at ITN is a reminder of: the lack of political will to take public service commitments seriously and the failure of the the regulator. My personal experience (disclosure: I left the company in 2004) is that ITN is an incredibly tightly run ship. It doesn’t generate profits to pay for…
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Content – more burger than king
I spent yesterday at the BBC in Manchester talking to some interesting people, many of whom want to build businesses providing content of one kind or another. So I gave my gloomy look at the content creation business, pointing to Monday’s supply squeeze at ITN, and Scott Karp’s post on NBC Universal/News Corp deal, and…
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The declining price of broadcast news…
ITV has just spun out a new deal with its news supplier, ITN. In case you don’t understand the oddness of British TV news – ITV doesn’t have its own news division, it contracts the news out – and has done for fifty years – to a company it 40% owns. According to the headline…