Medias

The citizen marches on

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:54:36 +0000

Yet more doom and gloom for the journalism industry. The citizens are going to overtake us all, unless we're local that is and that's a warning from a journalism professor at my old uni City no less. Yikes!

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Work, it'll kill ya

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:43:39 +0000

This has nowt to do with journalism apart from providing a wonderful use of statistics.

Writing about the increasingly hazardous Italian workplace, Beppe Grillo declares that in Italy "work is now worse that AIDS" and that "Unemployment is a problem but in compensation it protects us from an early death."

Genious!

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Video steals the show

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:37:04 +0000

URL: Blog the Vote

Online video. So now. Or is it? Everyone in media circles is talking about it but does anyone really know why?

A friend of mine at Forbes.com tells me that they have been able to monetize the video content with great success but as far as newspapers are concerned is anyone actually producing compelling content?

Hope to provide some answers in next week's Press Gazette.

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War on your screens

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:35:20 +0000

URL: Do not ignore Iraq

Yet another broadcaster, this time Jon Snow, adds to the growing discontent being voiced over the lack of attention being given to Iraq.

I have a story in this week's Press Gazette on that very matter in which ITN's Bill Neely, Channel 4's Dorothy Byrne and CNN's Nic Robinson vent their spleens on the deplorable state of foreign news coverage in Britain.

But who really is to blame - is it the MoD for denying access, the journalists and editors themselves who do want to put themselves at risk but are also in search of higher ratings and sexy stories or the public themselves, many of whom would prefer 3 minutes on the latest Big Brother scandal over bombings in Baghdad?

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Geek watch

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:41:08 +0000

For media folk it's becoming increasingly clear that the geeks shall inherit the earth. But where to they get their information? Well a good starting place is to check out which sites were most visited to check out live-blogging of Steve Jobs' keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco earlier this week. Hitwise reckons Endgaget.com wins hands down.

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Are You Beautiful?

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:33:16 +0000

Hip NY magazine, Paper has launched an innovative way of finding a subjects. In yet another development in the craaze for UGC, the publication has asked readers to post clips on YouTube to explain why they should be featured in the magazine's Beautiful People Issue:

It's our yearly chance to pay tribute to the fresh, up-and-coming faces of the world of art, fashion, film, design, media, music and performance.

So I know you're media but the question is, do you qualify? You've got until 1 March to figure that out.

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MySpacers address the nation

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:35 +0000

MySpace has launched a headline grabbing contest for its users called “MyState of the Union,” allowing users to submit videos that express their views on where America presently is and where they think it should be going.

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Online video biggest story for media in '07

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:36:01 +0000

Online video has the potential to be the biggest positive story for media companies in 2007, so says Peter Chernin president and chief operating officer of News Corp.

Speaking at the media and telecommunications conference in Las Vegas he admitted that he was less covinced by all the hype surrounding user-generated video, he did not believe advertisers would embrace this medium.

Watch this MySpace...

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Can I tell you a secret

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:28:46 +0000

This could be career suicide but feel the need to share. I don't read newspapers every day. We'll I do but I don't think the Evening Standard really cuts it as required reading in journalistic circles.

As someone who spends a minimum of three hours a day commuting, I can't think of anything worse than struggling to read a paper, tabloid, berliner or broadsheet as I travel.

My commuting time

But if you're fearful that your reading the ramblings of a complete ignoramus, fret not. For me it's all about the RSS - news relevant to you that arrives on your desktop as it happens.

It's a tool that I can't live without, which is why I'm puzzled to see the news that 2007 is apparently the year in which this all goes mainstream. To be honest, I thought it was already!

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So is the BBC 'anti-politics'?

nobody@vox.com(hackette) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:37:57 +0000

URL: So is the BBC 'anti-politics'?

Barely a week out of the headlines for his "grandstanding" at a White House press conference, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson has posted an uncharacteristically long blog entry where he answers criticisms made against the organisation by Steve Richards.

Richards, who Robinson is keen to stress is a chum, has taken umbrage at the BBC's lack of depth and analysis when it comes to dealing with political stories.

It's a point that has oft been raised, most recently by Tony Benn in his fantastic "interviewin the interviewers" documentary produced by Mentorn for Channel 4.

But two read big journalistic beasts of British politics battling out this issue that normally goes on behind the scenes, in public is fascinating.

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