Posts Tagged ‘newspapers’
There is something very strange going on with the media at the moment. There is an abundance of reportage of subjects that are either immaterial or surprisingly making the headlines at all. There is also outrageous support from within the industry of the notion of subscribing to news websites irregardless of the reality that a [...]
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I am open to the obvious changes that journalism is undergoing, the Internet has revolutionised how we access our information after all. However, after hearing Twitter rumours about Rupert Murdoch charging readers to read online news sites, I brushed the idea aside thinking nothing of it but a scheme that would go no further than [...]
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Tags: BBC, death of print, Guardian, Independent, information, iTunes, Journalism, News, newspapers, online, pay, pay for news, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, The Times, website
An A – Z of Journalism
I wrote an A- Z of cycling in a previous blog about a year ago after reading Boris Johnson’s hilarious A-Z of cycling in the Times. I think its time some of the great industry of Journalism was quantified alphabetically. A – Alcohol. Self explanatory in these straitened times. B – By-lines, without one of [...]
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Tags: alcohol, Alphabet, editors, humour, jobs, Journalism, newspapers
