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- Charging for comment
On the Editors’ weblog, the director of the World Editors’ Forum, Bertrand Pecquerie, writes…
"I consider an opportunity was missed in the struggle for the newspaper industry to reinvent a new business model. And I hope this missed opportunity will serve as a lesson in other countries as in the US.
What’s the issue? It seems rather [...]
- Judging the student media awards
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Judging the awards, originally uploaded by Steve Bowbrick.
Steve Bowbrick and I were judging the web bit of the Guardian’s student media awards in the Ivy last week… here’s me trying to use a pen [...]
- The cost of football
Ticket prices for one adult ticket, plus one child, for the next home game from today’s Observer (with one addition - see if you can guess where)
Chelsea £90 Birmingham £60.50 Newcastle £56 Portsmouth £52 Everton £46 Real Madrid £28.60Swindon Town, currently third bottom of the damned League One table £28 Bolton £26 Valencia £24.80 Crawley [...]
- Berliner? Ich bin Holzfäller und das ist fein, I’d say
Berliner finally arrived late on Sunday night. I took this picture during the photocall at the new, hanger-like London print plant that evening, just as the whine of the presses was increasing after they achieved "saleable copy". It was a wonderful sound.
Indeed, the whole place is impressive, built in record time, and the papers its [...]
- Farewell to the broadsheet
The future arrives on Monday. And it even looks good on TV.
- Gadgets, gadgets, everywhere
Keith Stuart hits the nail on the head over on our Gamesblog. Namely: in a serious development for bank balances the geek world over, it’s turning into a very good year for consumer electronics. Which gadgets to go for?
My list wouldn’t be quite as games-centric as Keith’s, but it’s still quite long, growing, and [...]
- Press Gazette on the new Guardian
More pre-launch stuff on the new Guardian, which appears on Monday. This time, from Press Gazette:
“Alan Rusbridger is gambling £80m of his employers’ cash, his own job and those of his staff and the future of a 184- year-old liberal institution on changing The Guardian to a format never before used by a UK national.”Indeed.
But [...]
- Katrina’s political impact
It’s only a week since I was expressing surprise that the BBC was burying the imminent landfall of Hurricane Katrina in its bulletins. Now, of course, we know it wasn’t just Auntie getting its priorities all wrong - so were politicians at every level in the US. The truth is, even at that point seven [...]
- Unprepared
It’s clear we don’t yet know the scale of the disaster to hit the Gulf Coast, because it’s still getting worse. There are images of countless lost souls wandering the streets, of anger, confusion, bodies, terrible grief and - now - random explosions and raging fires. Watching the coverage, it looks like there are more [...]
- Guardian names the day
And it’s all terribly exciting.
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