A local TV revolution begins in Grimsby

In the video the Daily Politics discusses Local TV. It sounds like an odd place for a revolution in TV to start, but Grimsby in the north east of England is where it is all kicking off.  This is the home of  Estuary TV  one of 19 local TV stations to launch in the UK. […]

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Predicting the future (based on the past)

John Naughton (2010) observed that living through today’s media revolution is like being a resident of St Petersburg in 1917, in the months before Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. It’s clear that momentous events are afoot; there are all kinds of conflicting rumours and theories, but nobody knows how things will pan out. […]

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Legal issues to do with user-generated content

Andy Chatfield writes: In the same way that ISPs play no part in the authorship of journalism on the websites they host, editors cannot anticipate what readers will publish in the ‘comment’ fields widely available on their web pages. Swift and wide-ranging interaction with readers is one of the fundamental benefits of publishing on the […]

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Your Users are Not Like You…

We must understand that our users are not necessarily like us and this has always been the case in media publishing. David Randall of the Independent writes in The Universal Journalist (2000) that journalists ‘often inhabit circles and have lifestyles, habits and tastes that are far removed from those of their readers’. They may be […]

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