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Category: Mainstream Media

  • First UK use of Twitter on live TV?

    Did the first use of Twitter on live TV in the UK happen this morning? These tweets by ITV presenter Phillip Schofield certainly suggest so: I did tune in to “This Morning” for a few minutes after catching the first…

  • All eyes on Washington

    Unless you disconnect yourself today entirely from anything audio-visual, you won’t be able to miss the inauguration ceremony of incoming US President Barack Obama. While he will become the 44th President of the United States when he takes his oath…

  • Some journalists’ fascination with Twitter

    Both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph published stories about Twitter yesterday. As a way of bringing this micro-blogging / text chatting / social network / service to the attention of a wider UK public, both papers have done…

  • FT stays in the pink

    The Financial Times is about to re-launch FT.com with a new look and feel, as the screenshot above indicates. My instinctive reaction to the new look: A much more attractive layout, making good use of white (er, pink) space I’d…

  • A (one-off) future for print

    What an interesting experiment. This morning, a four-page printed newspaper called The Manual was distributed to London commuters at a number of locations in the city. Just 150 copies were printed with each one numbered so making the complete print…