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Can political ads save commercial TV news?
In the US presidential elections in 2008 just over a billion dollars will go into ad slots in local newscasts. It’s a spend that’s second only to car ads (in case you wondered what was more important to Americans than politics – it is driving). I think there’s a lesson here for UK television news.…
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Britain’s Top Ten Journo-Bloggers
Yes, shameless list-porn. Buoyed up by hitting 300 subscribers in Feedburner, and approaching 30,000 unique users I was hit by an attack of vanity (over-compensating for my plummeting Technorati ranking) and decided to try and list the top 10 UK j-blogs. Pride, of course, always comes before a fall. So, I followed Martin Belam’s Herculean…
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ITV: Michael Grade’s "Midas" touch
Michael Grade. The scorecard so far: 1. Hires Dawn Airey “I started my career there [ITV] and I worked there for just under 10 years. Whether or not I end my career there, who knows?” 2. Brings back News At Ten “Maybe ITV are pandering [to Ofcom to get CRR changed], but if they think…
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Chipwrapping
Martin Belam has been engaged in some online heavy lifting to create Chipwrapper. It’s a custom search that just returns results from major UK news sites. What’s to like? As Lloyd Shepherd points out, Martin has created something that wasn’t there before. To express it in genuinely clunky terms – it allies online distribution with…