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Category: Mainstream Media

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • Making FT.com compelling

    London-based publishing conglomerate Pearson – owner of the Financial Times, among other companies – announced its half-year financial results this morning. Market watchers seem pleased with Pearson’s performance. One item in the press release caught my eye: […] FT.com benefits…

  • Podcasts boost radio listening

    One of the reasons I often hear as to why podcasting took off in the US is because of the poor choices available from radio. Homogenized content and script-reading presenters wherever you listen are among the anecdotal statistics thrown about.…

  • Insights and sharing at the FT

    I visited the Financial Times headquarters in London yesterday, part of a group of six bloggers who met with some senior FT editors and reporters for an informal get-together to talk about FT.com, blogging, journalism and anything else that took…

  • All rights reserved at AP

    Reading a Reuters story on their website, I noticed something that highlights to me what’s at the heart of the problem with the Associated Press. These two international news agencies seem to be poles apart in their philosophy about content…