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Links for 2008-06-03 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-04 07:00:00 Bill Clinton's critique of the Vanity Fair piece about him starts strong and then collapses - Jack Shafer "His many questionable business dealings, all gathered here, make for an eye-opener for those who haven't followed his adventures since the final days of his administration." BBC warned on overpayments to stars - FT.com "The BBC was told on Monday it might be overpaying its leading radio DJs and news presenters and should consider reducing salaries because the ?talent? had nowhere else to go." 'Sky News' crew jailed in Zimbabwe "3 South African men arrested on a Zimbabwean highway and found in possession of ?illegal? television equipment bearing logos of Britain?s Sky TV were jailed for 6 months each on Monday." Blogs vs mainstream media - Bad Science Bloggers 1, MSM 0: ??Miracle cure for children? stories are news; ?miracle cure lacks evidence of efficacy? stories are not.? Dore: the media’s miracle cure for dyslexia - Bad Science Make th... More About: Links , 2008
McClatchy vs. Scott McClellan on the road to Iraq
2008-06-04 00:17:00 In case you bought into Scott McClellan’s claims that the US media failed to ask questions (of - erm - Scott McClellan) in the run up to war with Iraq (echoed by odd bedfellows like Nick Davies here in the UK), Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay at McClatchy have posted an impressive rebuttal. Here’s what happened, ... More About: Road , On The Road , The Road
The value of live?
2008-06-03 19:20:00 This from Jon Fine, quoting a 50-something news exec (my itals): The economics of content are totally compromised. For me, the best example of it is Madonna moving from Warner Brothers to Live nation. Because she knows that she can get more income from an event company than a music label. That?s because there is something perishable and valuable ...
The case of the disappearing Reed Elsevier blog
2008-06-03 11:08:00 The Telegraph reports today that Reed Elsevier is packaging up an HP deal (ok, a loan) for potential buyers of Reed Business Information. The fate of RBI is a matter of academic interest to business watchers and - well, academics - but if you actually work there it’s a little more interesting. Like, ‘your livelihood’ interesting. So, a while ... More About: Blog , Case
Links for 2008-06-02 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-03 07:00:00 A new model for news consumption Story resolution is key. Sports and entertainment deliver on that (these stories have a beginning and an end). News do not do that. Scott McClellan's book proposal - Politico.com "The public holds the national media in low esteem. I think there are several reasons why, and I intend to write about them in some detail while discussing ways the media could improve their image." Why Jonathan Ross is worth the money - Telegraph Michael Lyons: "[L]et's be clear: the public puts news at the top of its list of the BBC's priorities" - hence the cuts? More About: Links , 2008
CNN?s iReport - ?I Report for CNN?
2008-06-02 21:30:00 Guardian columnist Jack Schofield (a kind of digital Jack Hargreaves for people of my age) writes about CNN’s iReport . Yes, any excuse to dust off this Jon Stewart classic:
The BBC and presenter pay
2008-06-02 18:50:00 So the BBC is cleared of paying too much for talent. Great word. Let’s try two older ones - public servants. The BBC is a public service broadcaster, so the standard by which its salaries should be judged is the UK public sector. The Prime Minister makes getting on for £190k. The Lord Chief Justice makes £230k. The Chief ... More About: Presenter
Links for 2008-06-01 [del.icio.us]
2008-06-02 07:00:00 We can't be trusted - if you can believe that | Media | The Observer If trust is a potent factor for good or ill, you'd expect to see lack of trust clearly reflected in bitter sales figures. Google News tips, tricks? - Lost Remote TV Blog Read the comments... Indian media struggling to fill jobs - livemint "Journalism education in India has been an underpaid and not-well-regarded profession, often attracting those who opted out of newsrooms or were too old to be active journalists." More About: Links , 2008
Great unequal contests of our time: BBC vs. Google
2008-06-01 15:31:00 Martin Belam writes one of those blogs I read so religiously I almost never bother to pass on what is actually written. Let me make up for it. Here is Martin addressing Ed Roussel’s piece on the Guardian PDA blog (itself a kind of Christmas footie match given the Comment is Free/My Telegraph trench warfare): I’ve watched time ... More About: Google , Time , Contests , Great
Sexism on BBC News
2008-06-01 10:20:00 The number of women reporters on the BBC’s flagship 10pm news broadcast is down. How so? Pernicious bloke-ism by the programme’s editor, Craig Oliver? Well, if you only pursued a strategy of putting on air the BBC’s editors - its best journalists - you would pack your running order with: Nick Robinson, Politics Robert Peston, Business Mark Easton, Home Affairs Justin Webb, North America Jeremy Bowen, ... More About: News , Sexism
The death of TV reviewing: an explanation
2008-05-31 10:43:00 Why is TV reviewing dying on its knees? The Daily Telegraph has just bid farewell to its TV reviewer. Is television no longer worthy of criticism? Buzz. Dumb question. What actually has happened is that reviewing has been bypassed altogether. Take Channel 5’s Strangelove: Married to the Eiffel Tower*, a programme which featured women who claimed to ... More About: Death , Reviewing
Links for 2008-05-30 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-31 07:00:00 Michael Crichton's 1993 prediction of mass-media extinction now looks on target. - By Jack Shafer "The biggest change is that contemporary media has shifted from fact to opinion and speculation." Newspaper Vet Malcolm Finds Blog Religion with 'Top of the Ticket' | PBS "Journalism was a place where people who wanted to learn the rest of their lives went to work" Zimbabwe: 'Sky' Trio Appear in Court Bennet Hassen Sono, Resemate Chauke, and Simon Maodi, jointly charged with Craig Mark Ram Edy (42), a Bulawayo resident, were remanded in custody to today. Kevin Marsh on context "'News' is what it is: a semi-ritualised set of snapshots of a small sector of our common lives. No more, no less." Trust is bad for democracy - Charlie Beckett "With growing economic wealth and development people become more sceptical (or Skeptical as they say here in Boston) and that actually leads to greater self-expression..." More About: Links , 2008
Making sense of Twitter for journalists
2008-05-30 09:37:00 I know there’s nothing like being late to a party, but if you’re still wondering how to make sense of Twitter , then let me share a couple of tips. You need Twhirl - think IM interface - an RSS reader and Tweetscan. Then you can set up custom searches on Tweetscan, dump them into a reader, and ... More About: Sense , Journalists
Links for 2008-05-29 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-30 07:00:00 Nepalese democracy, a harbinger in the Arab world "We in the Gulf - and the larger Arab world too - constitute the last bastion of absolute rule. I predict that within this generation we shall see intrinsic changes to how our countries are governed by the sustained introduction of democratic systems." Culture of spin costs UK police £39m | jamesrb.co.uk "The police spend nearly ten times more on PR - what they want us to know - than on Freedom of Information - what we actually ask to find out." PressThink: What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press Rosen on McClellan: a pathetic character who had no power, no in-in-the-loop knowledge, no respect from key players in the Administration, no talent for improvised explanation under the lights, and no problem being made to look like an ass in front of the Prosecutors open inquiry into possible spying by Deutsche Telekom - IHT "Reinhard Kowalewsky, a journalist... More About: Links , 2008
Scott McClellan flow chart
2008-05-29 22:55:00 Very funny take on the Scott McClellan saga from 23/6 [HT: Jay Rosen tweet]. More About: Chart , Flow
What The Papers Say - RIP?
2008-05-29 22:10:00 I met the team the team behind What The Papers Say up in Manchester before Christmas, helping to sift through the list for their annual awards. WTPS was a charming, old school production helmed by the very decent Ged Clarke, and nestled alongside the Tonight with Trevor. It brought to mind the days in broadcasting ...
Democracy, markets and the BBC
2008-05-29 11:27:00 I have frequently found myself talking to reform-minded individuals in the Middle East. Many like the idea of democracy. They admire it. Personally they are liberal, progressive, secular. And yet the closer they are to power - or when holding office - the more they concede that the time is not yet ripe. Their work is too ... More About: Markets , Democracy
Links for 2008-05-28 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-29 07:00:00 Goldman Sachs sees gloom for newspaper industry Bank speak for gloom: "The head-wind created by mid-to-high single digit pro forma revenue declines means that even the best managed company will have a difficult time posting positive earnings comparisons" Lies, damned lies, and SEO - Newsosaur "The steady pollution of the web with phony and malicious info-junk could turn an awesome resource for humanity into little more than useless, time-wasting digital flotsam." Lousy weather boosts UK TV viewing - FT.com "Commercial television enjoyed its best April in five years with an increase of 10.2 per cent in viewing hours over 2007, while commercial impacts ? the number of times one adult watched a full 30-second advertisement ? increased 13.5 per cent." Belgian newspapers want $77M from Google "Belgian French-language newspapers said Tuesday they want search engine Google to pay up to euro49 million ($77 million) in damages for publishing and storing the... More About: Links , 2008
Scott McClellan?s book reviewed on twitter
2008-05-29 00:10:00 Scott McClellan?s book, summarized: ?I totally didn?t know I was lying those 630,000 times.? Matthew Baldwin [HT: Charles Arthur] More About: Book , Scott , Twitter
Print and online strategies: a UK perspective
2008-05-28 12:08:00 So another account of the state of newspapers from a thoughtful British news exec, Chatham House rules. The key themes and claims (my thoughts in itals): Protect print ad and subscription revenues and readership (claim = resilience/loyalty of core readership). The slow decline scenario. Grow online revenues and audience (claim = potential for growth and more growth). Still awaiting evidence ... More About: Strategies , Print , Online , Perspective
Poster power in the 21C
2008-05-28 09:04:00 Author Stew Friedman had to drum up an audience at Google HQ. Did he Twitter? A Facebook event perhaps? Gmail? Nope. So, in this definitively 21st century work environment, how do you grab employees’ attention to entice them to attend a one-hour session with an author talking about his new book? This was the challenge for ... More About: Power , Poster
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
Links for 2008-05-26 [del.icio.us]
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
Links for 2008-05-24 [del.icio.us]
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
Links for 2008-05-23 [del.icio.us]
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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