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Category: Mainstream Media

  • NLA wins latest move in ‘pay for clicks’ battle

    Yesterday, the Court of Appeal in London ruled in favour of the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) in a long-running legal battle over licensing of links to content published in the mainstream media. The latest ruling upheld an earlier court decision…

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  • Can they handle the truth?

    Today might be a momentous one in the unfolding drama that embraces News Corporation, phone hacking by journalists, police bribery, corruption and who knows what else as Rupert Murdoch and son James face a Parliamentary select committee investigating events that…

  • Seeing PR sense behind latest News International events

    The announcement this morning that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned provoked near-universal applause on Twitter, from what I could see in my content stream. It was also reported in mainstream media around the world, illustrating quite clearly how…

  • Making some drama from the NOTW crisis

    Last week, the focus was on the News of The World and phone hacking, culminating in the newspaper’s final edition on Sunday July 10. This week, attention has shifted dramatically as events have moved up level by level to embrace…

  • A tipping point sets a milestone for mainstream media evolution

    I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing…