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Newsweek RIP?
Tweet All you need to know about the background to Newsweek’s decline and likely fall (with links to other commentaries) from Marion Maneker’s Goodnight, Gutenberg blog at Slate. This debate is known...
View ArticleWeekend miscellany: Assange, Kenyan corruption, why is sport so huge, the...
Tweet I’m increasingly finding, as this blog finds its feet, that I reach the end of the working week with a bunch of links which I’d like to pass on but which don’t require much comment or...
View ArticleIn memoriam Norman Macrae
Tweet I was poised to write a highly serious post about the creeping tendency towards ideas about state subsidy for news organisations when I took a look at The Browser and fell across an long,...
View ArticleJay Rosen Q & A on political reporting
Tweet A quick link to an exceptionally clear exposition of the thinking of NYU professor Jay Rosen about political journalism. Rosen has for years been developing a case against the “neutrality” of...
View ArticleWebdeath (3)
Tweet By far the best look at the forces pulling the world wide web in a new direction (a.k.a. the debate about “webdeath”) comes from The Economist here. Background to this in previous posts here and...
View ArticleShould states subsidise news media?
Tweet I listened a few days ago to a lecture devoted to arguing that the economic crisis of news media in America is so bad that the government should be giving journalism direct financial support....
View ArticleHari: act of contrition for the weekend
Tweet A couple of months ago, I wrote a post here about the Independent writer Johann Hari which made a mistake. Time to rectify that. Two days ago, Hari handed back his Orwell Prize and published a...
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