Category: Mainstream Media

  • The news is dead; long live the news

    There’s much talk these days with various opinion and predictions of an unclear future for the newspaper business. We’ve seen some pretty radical events in recent months, notably in the US – the Chicago Tribune’s Chapter 11 filing last December,…

  • Is there any surprise trust is so low?

    You could see the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph on the newsstand from 50 feet away: The ministers and the money. Whatever your political stance, it must surely be apparent to anyone that something in Westminster…

  • The Time 100: Personal insights

    I’ve been reading through the 2009 Time 100, a list of the world’s most influential people as Time magazine describes it, published last week. It certainly is a fascinating read. These are influential people, unquestionably so. The list of world…

  • Get the WSJ on your iPhone

    I used to be a paying subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, one of only two newspapers whose online content I’m willing to pay for (the other being the Financial Times). When it came to the toss a few years…

  • The tipping point for UK political blogs

    Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger…