MediaPost: Heavy newspaper readers also turning online in US, says survey
Some interesting US figures from a recent report by The Media Audit, which looks at lifestyle factors and socioeconomic traits in relation to an individual’s media consumption habits. Individuals who...
View ArticleGuyana: Four daily papers and 20+ television stations but a poor standard of...
Regular Journalism.co.uk contributor John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University and the inventor of the Coventry Conversations, now on iTunes U. He was born in Guyana and...
View ArticleEssential journalism links for students
This list is doing the rounds under the headline 100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students… and we’re not on it. Nope, not even a smidgeon of link-love for poor old Journalism.co.uk there. The...
View ArticleMedia Release: David Fordham named Newspaper Society president
David Fordham, chief executive of Iliffe News and Media, has been appointed as president of the Newspaper Society. Georgina Harvey, Trinity Mirror Regionals managing director, has been named as vice...
View ArticleThis is Georgetown but it could be Westminster: journalists hunt in packs...
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV. His last post looked at how summits...
View ArticleAfricaNews: Obama praises Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw...
“US President Barack Obama paid tribute to Ghanaian ace investigative journalist and AfricaNews’ reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his selfless work towards humanity. Obama said the democratic...
View ArticlePR Week: CIPR president on the NLA’s backlink charging plans
The latest response to the Newspaper Licensing Agency’s (NLA) proposals to regulate hyperlinks to newspaper content for commercial agencies and aggregators – this time from president of the Chartered...
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Walter Cronkite: death of America’s ‘most trusted’ news voice
America has lost a top celebrity anchorman, whose news delivery was so influential, he came to be called ‘the most trusted man in America’. He died peacefully at his home, on Friday July 17, at the age...
View ArticleSA president Zuma accepts damages from Guardian in libel case
South African president Jacob Zuma last week settled his libel case against the Guardian and accepted ‘substantial damages’ from the paper, according to Reuters. Zuma began proceedings in March after...
View ArticlePolitico: Bill Clinton will try to secure release of US journalists held in...
The former president Bill Clinton has gone to to North Korea to try and win the release of two women journalists who have been detained since March 17, Politico learned from a Washington source. “North...
View ArticleAcademics threaten Observer boycott: the letters in full
As reported on the main site, a number of high profile figures in business and academia have already, or are threatening to, cancel their subscriptions to the Observer, after the paper – the threatened...
View ArticleSocial and mainstream media join forces to cover Afghanistan election
Rivals currently claim to both be on track for victory in the Afghan elections, in a race watched closely by the world’s media – mainstream, citizen and social. The Guardian, for example, reports that...
View Article‘There is a future for journalism, but it is a very expansive future,’ says...
Glyn Mottershead teaches newspaper journalism at the University of Cardiff. He blogs at http://egrommet.net/ and is @egrommet on Twitter. Journalism will survive – but there’s no simple solution for...
View Article‘Jackass’ tweet raises question of on and off-the-record
Kanye West has apologised (at least four times) to Taylor Swift for interrupting her acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs to tell the crowd that Beyoncé should have got it, while ABC News has apologised...
View ArticleWSJ confirms paid-for access to news on mobile
News Corp’s Dow Jones has confirmed speculation from earlier this week and announced that the Wall Street Journal will now charge for full access to its content via Blackberry, iPhone and iPod touch...
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