Link: Younger, Heavy Online News Consumers are Not Newspaper Readers, According to comScore Plan Metrix. OK, so the fact that young people DON’T read newspapers these days sounds like research from the School of the Blinkin’ Obvious (SB0) at the Faculty of Not Rocket Science (FNRS), but read on…. The research from ComScore shows that […]
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Flat Earth News debate (London College of Communication – 6/4/08)
The ethical issues raised in Flat Earth News by Nick Davies were debated at the London College of Communication and here are a few notes [more analysis to come]. Davies doesn’t pull his punches when it comes to ‘naming and shaming’ those journalists who he believes have poor ethical standards. Davies reserves no less than […]
Will loyalty cards save the newspaper industry?
London’s Waterloo train station is fast becoming the latest battleground in a bloody tabloid circulation war. A few weeks ago vendors were selling the The Sun newspaper in the rain. This week we saw the boys and girls of the London Evening Standard inviting commuters to sign-up to a loyalty card scheme. Unfortunately, neither effort […]
Alastair Stewart: Graduates from Bournemouth and Cardiff are “worth nothing”
ITN newsreader Alastair Stewart attacked journalism education at the IRN awards last month (Press Gazette 27 April 2007) Stewart, who studied at Bristol University and has an OBE for services to broadcasting, advised students to follow a non-journalistic degree course and do “real practical journalism”. He said: “It’s heartbreaking the number of people turning up […]
Why read The Independent newspaper?
Charles Arthur, former technology editor, launches a lengthy and stinging attack on cutbacks at the newspaper. I remain loyal to the The Independent for the following reasons: (unfortunately the list gets smaller each day..) It courageously opposed the Iraq war at a time when prestigious newspapers in the UK and the US were shamefully misleading […]
