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Al Jazeera English
2008-05-14 15:36:00 Parsons out, Burman in… May 14, 2008 - Doha, Qatar: The Al Jazeera Network today announced that it has appointed Tony Burman as the new Managing Director for the Al Jazeera English channel. He will build on the success of his predecessor Nigel Parsons who will assume the position of Managing Director of Business ... More About: Al-Jazeera
Visualizing the News
2008-05-14 11:09:00 Absolutely love this from Neoformix. It’s a data visualization app called News Spectrum. Go and have a play. More About: The News
Meet the new blog?same as etc. etc.
2008-05-14 10:46:00 So it’s a change of design (goodbye American Typewriter) and farewell to Blog ger (much loved). I’m slowly updating the blogroll so if you haven’t appeared yet, then yes, it is just me being slow. Also there may be some problems with screen res (Crappy screen resolution! Another great reason to subscribe via RSS!). Thanks for dropping by ... More About: Meet , Facebook , Twitter
Links for 2008-05-13 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-14 07:00:00 The worst show on a cable news network is still The Journal Editorial Report. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine Synergies - sometimes they sound better than they watch... Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR Media Matters runs the numbers on the talking heads... Aljazeera English expands reach in Philippines "Aljazeera Network today announced that it has closed, in recent weeks, five distribution agreements in the Philippines - where the reach of Aljazeera English now tops 500,000 households." BBC Knowledge Magazine launches in US | Media | guardian.co.uk Maybe they'll buy the Tribune...! More About: Links , 2008
Links for 2008-05-12 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-13 07:00:00 In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time? - New York Times Usage of TV is steady - linear viewing is on the slide... Newsosaur on the Tribune If you can imagine your mortgage payment tripling at the same time your take-home pay is shrinking, then you can understand the financial pain forcing the Tribune Co. to sell Newsday. Mike Caulfield » Blog Archive » If a Columnist Calls a Tail a Leg… "The death of information literacy?" The WaPo gets a lesson in internet research... 'Al-Jazeera is not an Arab news channel' | Jerusalem Post Riz Khan: His main gripe is with the notion that Al-Jazeera English can be explained away as an "Arab channel." Much Relief as Murdoch Gives Up on 'Newsday' "The only losers...will be consumers and advertisers on Long Island, where a single conglomerate will now have a near-monopoly on local media." Arab Media ...it inevitably looked to many in the Arab world that BBC Arabic TV was conceived as... More About: Links , 2008
Supermedia
2008-05-12 18:49:00 My colleague and chum, Charlie Beckett launches his new book Supermedia - and like all good Web 2.0 publishing (me excluded) you can try before you buy. Have a look here for a taste of what Charlie is saying - review to come.
Links for 2008-05-11 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-12 07:00:00 ‘New media doesn’t break stories. It draws on content of old media. I place highest value on breaking stories’ - IndianExpress.Com Joseph Lelyveld on all sorts - e.g. Rupert Murdoch - "he does to tend to cheapen what he owns." Voice of Middle England takes aim at Middle India | Media | The Observer The Mail arrives in india... U.S. firm accused of Baghdad atrocity is flying high - International Herald Tribune Blackwater is back to business as usual. The State Dept cant cope without em... As markets emerge, newspapers find growth - International Herald Tribune The FT is about to launch in India... More About: Links , 2008
The information war in Iraq
2008-05-11 17:42:00 Andrew Exum has an interesting account of how the U.S. Army did hearts and minds in Iraq five years ago… In the fall of 2003, I was an officer in the U.S. Army, leading a special operations unit in Iraq. When I inquired as to what psychological operations resources I had at my disposal, I was given ... More About: Information , War in Iraq
Can You Trust The Media? reviewed
2008-05-10 09:53:00 Please forgive the shameless self-promotion but Can You Trust The Media ? picked up a review at the Guardian. Phone-in voting scams, dodgy trailer editing, silly-season reports of great white sharks cruising off English beaches - the media apparently has a problem with trust. How to win it back? Wrong question, says Adrian Monck: trust is something that ... More About: The Media
Links for 2008-05-09 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-10 07:00:00 Pew’s journalism center is right to take comedian Jon Stewart’s Daily Show seriously « The Future of News Jon Stewart?s show is just like the mainstream media, only more entertaining. It may not fit Modern Journalism?s definition of news, which requires a serious, authoritative, quasi-scolding style, but who gave them the right to define what news is? More About: Links , 2008
Off topic: Voting on TV - a basic problem
2008-05-08 15:00:00 Channel 4?s Grand Designs Live, is built around asking viewers to vote on three properties. Here is the problem: the first property featured has a massive advantage over the last property in terms of motivating people to vote. [Updated] Two three four nights out of three four five, the first property featured has won… Can Channel 4 ... More About: Topic , Basic , Problem , Voting , Cloud
Links for 2008-05-07 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-08 07:00:00 New York Times and the media, five years after the Blair fiasco - MarketWatch "Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news organizations, coupled with expanding consumer choices, prompts slashed newsroom budgets..." says cheery Ken Auletta Husband dies after appearing on Wife Swap - Telegraph A voluntary participant writes: "The TV company has an image of you they want to portray and they goad you into behaving how they want you to behave." How do you measure a blog’s success? « Online Journalism Blog A lot of ways, is the answer. But missing is the amount of grief you get from your family for blogging... Journalists are like elk hunters "[He] compares journalists with elk hunters, they don't hate the elk, but they don't have very much sympathy for the dead elk either." WSJ Plans Closer Ties With London Times; May Offer Business Tools | paidContent.org Last week, The Times said it w... More About: Links , 2008
The future of investigative journalism?
2008-05-07 19:23:00 The future of investigative journalism? Books, according to ex-WSJ Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine. Pearlstine doesn?t believe the newspaper business model will support the kind of long-form, investigative journalism that many of the top reporters and editors have spent their careers pursuing. Case in point: the Washington Post?s recent 17,000-word, four-part series on IED?s in Iraq. Great story, ... More About: Journalism , Future , The Future
Courage and impotence in journalism
2008-05-07 10:04:00 There is an exceptional and very poignant post from a sacked Chinese journalist translated and reproduced at the China Digital Times. I am afraid of other people praising me as a brave newspaperman, because I know I am full of fear in my heart. I did write some commentaries on current affairs, and edited some articles ... More About: Journalism
Business bad. Journalism good.
2008-05-07 09:46:00 Jon Friedman has a walk down ethics lane today, prompting Ken Auletta to come out with this distinctly non-counter-intuitive take on why ethical lapses occur. (And in the words of the song - ?Stop me if you think you?ve heard this one before.?) ?Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news ... More About: Business , Journalism , Good
Links for 2008-05-06 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-07 07:00:00 Media Passes on Times Pentagon Piece | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) No one bought the NYT story... More About: Links , 2008
Links for 2008-05-05 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-06 07:00:00 Peter Wilby: The mob power of the commentariat | Media | The Guardian Though the British press prides itself on its variety of opinion, the range among established commentators is actually quite narrow and, frequently, they all charge together in the same direction. That is why politicians treat them seriously. Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In - New York Times The journey beyond print is uncertain and perilous, but the experience of I.D.G., the world?s largest publisher of technology newspapers and magazines, suggests that it can be done. U.S. magazine wars prove a bonanza for celebrities - International Herald Tribune "People.com briefly doubled its usual number of online readers when it featured Lopez's twins, with about four million viewers in a single day. That kind of traffic can translate into more advertiser interest..." All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times Stunning info-graphic from the NYT... FT.com / World - Repton Dubai bla... More About: Links , 2008
Two views of ITV
2008-04-22 10:19:00 James Murdoch bought ITV shares for 135p not too long ago. Now, you and I can pick them up for about half that.Murdoch didn’t exactly buy them hoping them to make a quick buck. But now he has moved to Wapping, how does one of his papers cover the ITV story? Dan Sabbagh plays a pretty straight bat laying out the territory in the Times: On fundamentals, ITV is expensive, even at these superficially bombed-out levels. The shares trade at 14 times earnings, a premium to European peers, and there are real worries that the high street advertisers on which ITV depends will start to rein in advertising as the economy tightens.That has not happened yet, but economic sentiment is so poor that the worry is that dependence on retail advertising is a weakness waiting to be exposed, rather than a strength.However, most quoted European broadcasters cannot be bought, because they are tied up with a strategic investor; ITV is the exception. For that reason alone, ITV, with its unique dominance of ... More About: Views
Wall Street Journal M.E. to Resign - TIME [del.icio.us]
2008-04-22 09:44:00 Sources at Dow Jones & Company Inc. say that Marcus Brauchli, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal , is submitting a letter of resignation, with his departure to be announced as early as Tuesday morning. More About: Time
Off topic: The Billionaire’s Vinegar
2008-04-22 01:45:00 There now follows an advertising announcement on behalf of Benjamin Wallace, who has the story of a very expensive bottle of plonk.THE BILLIONAIRE’S VINEGARThe Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of WineSlate calls it “terrific.”Food & Wine finds it “riveting.”GQ says it’s “what everyone will be talking about.”The Billionaire’s Vinegar is available now for pre-order, and will be in bricks-and-mortar bookstores everywhere as of May 13.You can catch up with Benjamin here:NEW YORK: May 15, 21, and 22PHILADELPHIA: May 18WASHINGTON, DC: May 20SAN FRANCISCO: June 1, 3, 4 and 5BOSTON: June 9 and 10SONOMA: July 16For times and venues, see his website.The answer to all those Father’s Day gift conundrums... More About: Topic
Bloomberg Buying 'NYT'? Don't Hold Your Breath [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 23:26:00 "I know nothing about the production of a newspaper. I know something about reading it. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I don't. I buy it everyday retail. But I am not going into the newspaper business" More About: Buying , Bloomberg , Breath , Hold
Business Daily Africa - Superstition threatens scientific growth in Africa
2008-04-21 22:48:00 Rampant and increasing belief in pseudoscience is endangering progress in curtailing scientific ignorance in developing countries. More About: Business , Daily , Africa , Growth , Superstition
Retired generals - not the neutral fence-sitters we all thought...
2008-04-21 21:16:00 The day’s big media story belongs to David Barstow and his epic NYT story, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, on the Bush administration’s hearts and minds campaign.Yes, retired generals on army pensions and with a lifetime of military service turn out not to have been the neutral thumb-suckers we all assumed they’d been transformed into when they took the network shilling.OK, so that is a bit mean given the weight of material Barstow has assembled.Still, Terry Heaton is unimpressed and throws in George Creel’s illuminating 1920 account of life running the Committee on Public Information - the Pentagon propaganda machine in WW1 - the modestly titled How We Advertised America.In case you don’t have a copy, here is Creel explaining his mission in terms that even Torie Clarke might find a tad over-enthusiastic: What we had to have was no mere surface unity, but a passionate belief in the justice of America’s cause that should weld the people of the United States... More About: Thought , Fence , Generals
Off topic: Signs the global economy is tanking
2008-04-21 20:28:00 So you know times are bad when the Harvard Business Review starts asking potential entrepreneurs to check their health insurance before cutting the corporate cord: Take the case of my brother who was 55 and a former CEO when he took early retirement. To his great chagrin he discovered that he couldn’t find health insurance. A millionaire several times over, Mike had the money to pay whatever premiums a health insurance company might ask. The problem: he had pre-existent conditions – diabetes and high blood pressure. No one in the state of New Hampshire would touch him.Millionaires without health insurance. Always good to come across a previously ignored political demographic in this election year... More About: Economy , Global , Signs , Topic
GASP! The Pentagon “used” the media! [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 20:23:00 Having just finished George Creel’s 1920 book, How We Advertised America: The First Telling Of The Amazing Story Of The Committee On Public Information That Carried The Gospel Of Americanism To Every Corner Of The Globe, the idea that the Pentagon would More About: Media , The Media , The Pentagon
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Ethiopia severs ties with Qatar [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 19:38:00 Al-Jazeera recently broadcast a series of reports from the Ogaden, to which the Ethiopia n government took great exception, describing them as propaganda films for a terrorist organisation. More About: News , World , Africa , Qatar
Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland - ITV bid? [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 18:37:00 ITV shares rose 3.9 percent on May 25 after a report said BSkyB might swap its 17.9 percent stake in ITV for control of Channel Five... More About: Ireland , Bloomberg
Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper War | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com [del.icio
2008-04-21 09:21:00 The fight could escalate in unknown ways if billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ends up acquiring the Times. As NEWSWEEK has learned, top associates of the onetime information executive are encouraging him to do just that. More About: Business , Newsweek , Newspaper
How to make your video editing easier « Mastering Multimedia [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 09:14:00 The way you shoot your story will either lead to an efficient edit, or a nightmare... More About: Video , Multimedia , Editing , Make , Video editing
China Media Blog » Hail to the elite? : Aggregated China Media News &
More articles from this author:2008-04-21 09:09:00 "Does anyone else find the weekend Australian gabfest for 1,002 of the country's best and brightest disturbing?" Yup.. More About: News , Media , China , Blog , Elite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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