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Links for 2008-05-27 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-28 07:00:00 Al Neuharth Reminds Everyone That Newspaper Margins Are Better Than Most Businesses, But Take A Look At What Print Is Having To Do "The most tried and tested way of reducing costs is, of course, to reduce headcount, and newspapers, from the very famous to the not so famous, are busy doing exactly that." Egypt ups the pressure on satellite TV programming / Move comes after Arab League approves restrictive guidelines "The government doesn't like what Al-Jazeera says in their broadcasts, but at the same time it won't shut down their office," said Gohar. "They bother people like me because I give Jazeera the technical facilities they need to broadcast." Yemen preparing new law to allow private broadcasters The Ministry of Information in Yemen is preparing a law allowing the broadcast of private television channels and radio stations, said the Minister of Information, Hassan al-Lawzi. Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are C... More About: Links , 2008
?Warming up? Gordon Brown
2008-05-27 21:56:00 Gordon Brown is struggling in the presentational department. On 1 May, BBC 5 Live's Nicky Campbell told him right out about "that lack of human connection that you have." (listen from 1:39) [Non-UK readers - imagine your political chief taking this verbal slapdown?] So how can Gordon get that "human connection"? Perhaps by taking a leaf from ... More About: Gordon Brown , Gordon
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2008-05-27 07:00:00 The Wars We Choose to Ignore - NYTimes.com "Hollywood producers who had hoped there would be a public interest in cinematic perspectives on this war [Iraq] have been similarly punished." FT.com / World - Al-Jazeera English tackles staff disquiet "One senior insider, who declined to be named, says inadequate employment laws in Qatar have allowed the channel to function with an ineffective administration system and incompetent managers." Carnival of Journalism: The Reporting Instinct 'The moment your reader - your customer - starts thinking "I know most of this already" when your newspaper or magazine lands on their desk, is the moment your fate is sealed.' The True Story of a Bogus Blog - AdWeek "...as advertisers clamor for viral marketing approaches, the Hunter fracas serves as the latest illustration of how a buzz-seeking stunt may backfire." More About: Links , 2008
News channel showdown: BBC News vs. Sky News
2008-05-26 14:18:00 I have been meaning to post for a while on the impact of Freeview on Sky News viewing. Freeview launched in November 2002, offering a set-top box for viewers who didn’t want Sky. The argument was that these viewers had an innate antipathy to Sky, hence they were more likely to pick the BBC as their ... More About: Channel
Links for 2008-05-25 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-26 07:00:00 Op-Chart - Misreading the Arab Media - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com Rather than being the enemy, most Arab journalists are potential allies whose agenda broadly tracks the stated goals of United States Middle East policy and who can be a valuable conduit for explaining American policy to their audiences. Scramble for African TV news THE TV news broadcasting industry in SA and beyond is investing millions of rands to increase the scope of operations radically, not only in SA but across the continent, in spite of the weakening global economic outlook. The Future of Marketing in the Age of Social Media ~ Cooler Insights Marketing as entertainment...entertainment as marketing... Kevin Myers autobiog reviewed "The transition from ordinary routine, Catholic morality or Protestant propriety, to intrigue, violence, and nervous hedonism was clearly a liberation for a lot of people." More About: Links , 2008
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2008-05-25 07:00:00 The prospect of an asteroid strike wiping us all out looks rather unappetising Forget collapsing advertising revenue models for a while, and comfort yourself that something much, much worse may happen... Research into Islamic terrorism led to police response A masters student at the University of Nottingham who was arrested under the Terrorism Act under suspicion of possessing extremist material was studying terrorism for his dissertation, Times Higher Education can reveal. More About: Links , 2008
Is there anything special about online newspapers?
2008-05-24 10:54:00 Ryan Sholin - host of this month’s Carnival of Journalism - has a question: “What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” What does special on the web look like? Not a lot like the product of many local newsrooms. Hardly a ... More About: Newspapers , Online , Special
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2008-05-24 07:00:00 Time Warner Cable Spinoff And Those NBC Universal Rumors NBC Universal doesn't have a publishing division. Time Warner doesn't have a broadcast TV network. It's still a ways off, but mark my words, execs at both companies are thinking about it. News Corp to move Wall Street Journal from financial district Figurative and literal: "The business daily's news staff will move to the company's headquarters at 1211 Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan." Exeter bomb blast: a case study in online coverage and social media « Gary Andrews More About: Links , 2008
Italian public service broadcasting 2
2008-05-23 09:28:00 Last night I did a panel debate with Angelo Petroni of Italy’s public broadcaster RAI, moderated by Endemol’s Andy Ward on the future of mass media in Europe. The setting was the genteel and fading grandeur of a house in Belgrave Square, which suited the theme perfectly. So what did I learn about Italian telly? The board ... More About: Public Service , Public , Service , Broadcasting
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2008-05-23 07:00:00 Robert Picard on newspapers "[Newspapers] are carrying enormous debt and have no believable plans for future growth and development. As a result, investors are demanding cost cutting, debt reduction, strong returns, and high dividends so they can recoup their investments." Simonsays: Review of Charlie Beckett's Supermedia Supermedia is an optimistic and positive book outlining how the media can enhance its forces-for-good using the internet. Iran snapshots "[My speech] t was greeted with press reports suggesting the BBC wanted to dominate Asia, that I had in some way belittled Iranian broadcasting and that I had changed my speech at the last moment in defiance of the ABU and organisers." More About: Links , 2008
Italian public service broadcasting?
2008-05-22 10:59:00 Tonight I’ll be at the Italian Cultural Institute talking about the European media with Andy Ward of Endemol and Angelo Maria Petroni of RAI. Petroni is an interesting character. He’s a conservative sociology professor who was affiliated with Silvio Berlusconi. He was appointed to the board of Italy’s public service broadcaster, RAI, in 2003 by the ... More About: Public Service , Public , Service , Broadcasting
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2008-05-22 07:00:00 Management headcount saving at the Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com Thomson goes from publisher to EIC Con artists and journalism's not so bright future | The Australian "I no longer permit any unnamed sources or single-named sources to be used in stories, having encountered too many prostitutes, homeless people, anorexics, drug addicts, dealers and webcam girls with amazing stories to tell set in improbably lively scenes More About: Links , 2008
An evening with a TV news legend
2008-05-21 18:44:00 Nick Owen interviewed Stewart Purvis last night, with Stewart talking through some of his favourite pieces from a career that spans over thirty years in journalism. It isn’t putting it too strongly to say that Purvis is the single most influential British TV journalist of that time (not that he’s in pipe and ... More About: News , Legend , Evening
A scene from home?
2008-05-21 08:59:00 From the New Yorker, of course, with thanks to Mike. More About: Home , Scene
Links for 2008-05-20 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-21 07:00:00 BBC journalists take up 'Gandhigiri' to protest changes - ExpressIndia.Com Several journalists from South Asia working in the BBC World Service have staged a unique floral protest against recent changes that they believe will affect the quality of journalism produced by the 75-year-old broadcaster. TV news networks squabble over Asian disaster coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk "A number of reporters are also operating inside Burma. But don't believe everything you see on television!" The Real Source of Gladiator Politics "We see viewership minute by minute," he said, hurriedly (the commercial break was about over). "When you really go after each other, we get a spike." Burma vs China: disaster attention on blogs Attention around Myanmar jumped from around 0.03 % of blog posts to 0.34 %; for China the jump is from 0.78 % to 1.12% - i.e. 0.34 % of blog posts as compared to Myanmar's jump of 0.31 %. CEO Blogs "I got a phone call from a CEO looking... More About: Links , 2008
Twitter as a news resource?
2008-05-21 00:25:00 Jeff Jarvis writes on the newsgathering potential of Twitter , and I see a problem: Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as “earthquake” ... More About: News , A News , Resource , A-News
Riffing on trust
2008-05-20 18:55:00 Some of the latest reactions to Can You Trust The Media? Peter Preston “Trust just got busted” Martin Belam “Can You Trust A Media Blogger?” Steve Borriss “Trust in media is about credibility not truth, placing journalists at a disadvantage vs. bloggers” Philip Young “Trust and Flat Earth News” Neil Henderson
Links for 2008-05-19 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-20 07:00:00 Peter Preston: Media trust just got busted | Comment is free | The Guardian Can You Trust The Media? reviewed by Peter Preston. Anchor Away: Television: The New Yorker It costs CBS $7m a year to run its Baghdad bureau, which does sound like a lot of money?until you realize that Couric makes about $15m a year and, last year, Moonves made close to $40m. More About: Links , 2008
Links for 2008-05-18 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-19 07:00:00 The best things in life aren't things - Juan Giner No more stuff. I hate this new magazine?s paradigma: readers love things. Sorry, but they love dreams. Russia Today, a Channel With an English Voice - New York Times ?We want to develop into a really trusted name that people turn to because they want to know what?s going on in the country.? West Wing: The Media's Mini-Truths - SPIEGEL ONLINE Gabor Steingart with the obligatory election coverage jeremiad - has there ever been an election more obsessed with trivia and less concerned with policy? Hmmm? Let me think! More About: Links , 2008
The UK Defence Ministry and public information
2008-05-19 01:05:00 How good is the UK Defence Ministry (the MOD) at releasing information to the public? Let’s look at its news releases for 13 May, 2008. Army launches ‘The Pipers’ Trail’ 13 May 08 - History and Honour - British Army Army Officer survives Taliban grenade attack 13 May 08 - People In Defence - Ministry Of ... More About: Information , Public
Links for 2008-05-17 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-18 07:00:00 Barack Obama, “Yes We Can”: A PowerPoint Deck | shmula "To test my hypothesis that PowerPoint as an information medium isn?t the best, I decided to completely do Barack Obama?s "Yes We Can" speech injustice by putting it into PowerPoint format." More About: Links , 2008
The origins of ?Churnalism?
2008-05-18 01:05:00 Nick Davies has put ‘churnalism’ on the map, but where did the word first appear? Thanks to the miracle of Nexis, you can go back to the beginning of the 1990s to find it in yet another media jeremiad, this time from the late Boston Globe columnist, David Nyhan. When trash appears as news (May 2, ...
Wade of the Wall Street Journal
2008-05-17 16:16:00 Okay. The Wall Street Journal speculative fun keeps on coming. Nick Denton dishes his rumour in the comments after Dealbreaker outs it: Nick Denton at 03:05 PM on 05/16/08 Reply by Email * @Phyllis Nefler: Rebekah Wade . But, yes. That was the rumor I was hearing. Interestingly, she was mentioned earlier in the year as a ...
Off topic: The spam version of Three Kings?
2008-05-17 16:01:00 Remember this story? BAGHDAD, Iraq–One hundred million U.S. dollars, and almost 90 million Euro?s, have been recovered from Baghdad in the area secured by the 4/64 Armour, 2nd Bde, 3rd Infantry Division. According to 3rd ID Provost Marshal, the funds were discovered between April 23 and 26. The unit found a total of 31 containers, which ... More About: Spam , Topic , Kings , Version
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2008-05-17 07:00:00 CBS's Anthony Mason is a master storyteller - MarketWatch "When he was ready to move to Philadelphia, he was prepared to demand an annual salary of $13k. The station manager cut him off by telling him, 'Legally, I can't pay you any less than $30k.'" More About: Links , 2008
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2008-05-16 07:00:00 BBC journalists oppose offshoring to Indian sub-continent "Journalists from south Asia working in the Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Sinhala sections of the BBC World Service here have launched a campaign to protest against offshoring of programming to the Indian sub-continent." Another CBC lefty takes the leap to al-Jazeera - Full Comment The take on Tony Burman's appointment from the Canadian right... ITV group revenue hits £492m | Media | guardian.co.uk Titanic captain - iceberg helping to support ship... Tim Berners-Lee Wins a Knight News Grant | Epicenter from Wired.com "The basic idea is that free text searches, and even conscientious post-publication tagging, don?t go nearly far enough to give a story that granular context which separates the wheat from the chaff." John Robinson on Newspaper readership "It has been an open secret for the 30-plus years I've worked for newspapers that some of us do not read much of the paper at all. That... More About: Links , 2008
Lewis of the Wall Street Journal?
2008-05-15 22:05:00 Portfolio speculates on an outside candidate for the Robert Thomson deputy role at the Wall Street Journal : Lewis has many qualities of Murdoch’s ideal candidate: business acumen (he made waves as a deal reporter for the Financial Times in the 1990s), impatience for change (the youngest editor of the Telegraph ever, he has focused on dragging ...
The press lords
2008-05-15 19:53:00 The House of Lords celebrity media mud wrestling inquiry comes to a fitting end on Tuesday, 20 May. According to the press release, the House of Lords Communications Committee will wrap up their inquiry into media ownership and the news by hearing from Lord Rothermere, Chairman of Associated Newspapers and Sly Bailey, Chief Executive of Trinity ... More About: Press , The Press
How trust helps kill newspapers?
2008-05-15 18:22:00 I don’t often get HTML envy, but Roger Black has a damn fine looking blog. And he has a few thoughts on one of my favourite current themes - trust. More than a profession, the newsroom was convinced that journalism was a public trust, which implies that the public was somehow complicit in this. Journalists believed ... More About: Newspapers , Trust , Kill
Links for 2008-05-14 [del.icio.us]
More articles from this author:2008-05-15 07:00:00 New Breed of Business Gurus Rises - WSJ.com Meet the new breed! Sorry - no women, or Asians. New role for Parsons at AJ Nigel Parsons, previously the Managing Director of Al Jazeera English, has been named the new Managing Director of Business Acquisition and Development by the Al Jazeera Network. Positive Thinking vs Skepticism in the Markets "I subscribe to the adage: 'Be trustworthy to all and optimistic in all your dealings, excepting those of a financial nature.'" How low will the Washington Post go? Like delivering to people who no longer subscribe low? Media firms outperform global peers - livemint analysis of the financials of 37 publicly traded companies in the Indian M&E sector shows that gross profits from core operations, or EBITDA, grew 31% in compounded terms between 2003 and 2007. Channel 4 programme 'Undercover Mosque' wins £100,000 from police who wrongly accused them of faking footage | the Daily Mail Should've been more... More About: Links , 2008 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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