Posted by: RFM on: September 3, 2009
Apparently, you shouldn’t let the word “constructivist” in the title put you off this.
You can download a PDF of the book if you follow the link.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Public Trust in the News: A constructivist study of the social life of the news.
Posted by: RFM on: August 29, 2009
Delivering the prestigious MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, James Murdoch (youngest son of Rupert – wonder how he got his job?) has attacked both the BBC and Ofcom, complaining that they’re stifling the media market in the UK.
James Murdoch hits out at BBC and regulators at Edinburgh TV festiva.
The [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 26, 2009
Er, no.
Roy Greenslade: Will star journalists lure subscribers to online papers? |
Media |
guardian.co.uk
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Posted by: RFM on: August 24, 2009
Here are a few stories I’ve been sitting on for a while:
Mountains Out Of Molehills | Information Is Beautiful
Newspaper ABCs. This is an interesting story. Although newspaper circulation figures have been steadily falling anyway, a lot of figures have been artificially inflated by means of the inclusion of “bulks”: giveaway copies you might find on [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 9, 2009
Other veteran Murdoch-watchers claim the fact he has chosen to flag up his plans for the best part of a year suggests he is uncharacteristically nervous about the step he is about to take. He usually takes the opposition by surprise, cutting the cover price of the Times or the Sun to 10p to boost [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 5, 2009
A few stories worth a gander:
1. Guardian Media Group ponders the future of The Observer, among other things. The venerable Sunday newspaper has an average net circulation of around 400,000, around 200,000 less than the Sunday Telegraph and a whole lot less than The Sunday Times, which has an average net of over 1.2 million [...]
Posted by: RFM on: July 16, 2009
Barber made a distinction between “crafted” journalism and blogs “largely based on opinion rather than established fact [and] becoming increasingly influential in setting the news agenda”. “Bloggers have broken important stories and will continue to do so,” he said.
But he said they “do not operate according to the same standards as those who aspire to [...]
Posted by: RFM on: July 6, 2009
Today in class we discussed one of the most fundamental questions linked to the impact of new media: how has new media affected the newspaper industry, and can it – or will it – survive that impact?
Some historical background is useful here.
The last time that newspapers were in the business of news – that is, [...]
Posted by: RFM on: June 29, 2009
The next day he was still dead, but somehow deader than the day before. He was all over the radio and papers. The TV had clips of Thriller on heavy rotation, which seemed a tad inappropriate, what with him playing a decomposing corpse in it. If Bruce Willis died falling from a skyscraper, I doubt [...]
Posted by: RFM on: June 20, 2009
Repeating an unsourced report in the Wall Street Journal, all the major news sources, including the BBC, are saying that Steve Jobs is recovering from a liver transplant and is expected to return to work at Apple soon.
According to John Gruber, odd rumours (that he’s refused to repeat) have been circulating for a while. Most [...]
