adrian monck

Tag: UK journalism

  • Licence fee fallout

    Something I wrote for Press Gazette: Ever seen the balloon dance? It goes like this. Unattractive naked man has three balloons that move from one extremity to the other to cover his embarrassment. BBC One is a bit like that. The balloons are news bulletins. What would happen if you popped them? Now the deal…

  • Panorama – quick reax

    Before you shed any tears for the BBC‘s Panorama, remember the old one wasn’t exactly fantastic. Under Mike Robinson no one in sport was safe, be it the Jockey Club or Sam Allardyce. We never saw the expose on drinking and darts players. I had to bale out of an engaging Dispatches to watch, and…

  • Quoting Harold Evans

    In case you wondered where the quote comes from, it’s from Sir Harold Evans’ memorial address for reporter David Blundy (1945-89). It’s worth reading in full:

  • News: "a really expensive, exhaustive exercise…"

    Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It’s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story — a…