Dive into the archives.
- Charles finally gets his InDesign
I laughed when I saw this post from Charles. All true, although I’m afraid, Charles, that it was more than three years ago when we were sat in that hall in Berlin.
- Is that really Musharraf on the Daily Show?
… and yes, it was, in one of the most surreal television episodes of the year. Jon Stewart, carefully serving tea and twinkies, asking in question number one: “So… where’s Osama bin Laden?”
I’m not sure what’s more surreal… a controversial sitting President appearing on a book tour in the US, or a controversial sitting President [...]
- What’s wrong with the Scottish media?
The Scottish media are in crisis, reports Iain MacWhirter. From downsizing at BBC Scotland to the imposition of a Portsmouth’s local newspaper editor as boss at the Scotsman - a role that “used to be one of the pillars of Edinburgh society”, notes MacWhirter - things are looking bad.
“The decline of great national papers is [...]
- Thought for the day: innovation
Sage advice from Steve Yelvington:
The guys from Innosight often advise us to separate innovative projects from the mothership. And they have a simple prescription: Be patient for scale, but impatient for profit. You need to discover whether a project makes business sense (i.e., can generate some sort of a profit) before you try to make [...]
- Why I delete more blog posts than I publish
Over here, Euan Semple welcomes Richard Sambrook, the BBC’s Director of Global News, to the (public) blogosphere, noting that he’s been writing a must-read internal blog at the Beeb for some time now. And Euan also notes that it’s “no mean challenge” for Richard to decide what to put out here, in the “wild”.
Euan, as [...]
- Reverse spin
Something new on Guardian Unlimited today… 360-degree photographs by Guardian photographer Dan Chung, with audio commentary by Guardian journalists.
Such images are, of course, nothing new. But in the hands of a news photographer they turn into something more than mere eye candy.
Dan’s down at the Lib Dems’ annual conference in Brighton, and has [...]
- Islam vs Christianity
At this difficult time I find that the twin powers of Youtube and the Daily Show are very helpful in finding a path through the maze, and arriving at a rational conclusion to the whole debate.
- The trouble with BBC TV news
Respected former TV journalist (and ex-MP) Martin Bell uses Comment is free today to launch a broadside at the BBC’s Six O’Clock News, which he describes as “a parody of something between Down Your Way and Nationwide”.
“Yesterday was a busy news day. A British tourist was killed in Jordan, and more British soldiers died in [...]
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