Category: Media

  • Last week’s media news today!

    I’m a week behind (blame recent sleep deprivation) but there were some really good articles in last Monday’s Media Guardian. David Liddiment, who used to be in charge of programming…

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  • All rise…

    I’m judging Milverton Wallace’s European Online Journalism Awards again so, if you’ve been short-listed, this is your opportunity to invite me to travel to your beautiful city and put me…

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  • Britain’s biggest flow chart magazine?

    What’s a flow chart? “A method for showing how information flows around a system using stylised boxes and arrows which show the direction of flow?”. “A pictorial summary that shows…

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  • Radio stars

    To unlovely Shoreditch via lovely Liverpool Street Station with its disfiguring retail warts (the station concourse and train shed remain beautiful but only if you hold up your hand to…

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  • Word out (but not up)

    Word is a worthy and probably doomed attempt to tackle books, cinema, music, art… everything really… for literate middle-brows in one monthly magazine. It’s the first project from the stellar…

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  • Tait on Puttnam’s rebellion

    Richard Tait in FT Creative Business on the likely parliamentary clash over media ownership rules and the so called ‘Murdoch Clause’. Written before Lord Puttnam announced his intention to oppose…

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  • Guardian.jpgTotal Information Washout

    This week’s Bowbrick at Large in The Guardian is about the broken dreams of the Internet advertising business. For about ten minutes back in what we’ll one day remember as…

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  • Digital radio’s revenge

    Top media analyst Mathew Horsman says Cinderella media technology DAB may yet thrive but it could do so at the cost of the 3G operators. You need to subscribe to…

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  • Barry Cox on broadcast

    The third and fourth of Barry Cox’s lectures on the future of broadcasting, as reprinted by The Guardian. The third concerns the failure of competition in digital TV in the…

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  • Attention Deficit Cinema

    Waldman advocates tearing a century of movie culture into bleeding chunks and playing the whole lot back in no particular order – a sort of Attention Deficit Cinema. Personally, I…

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