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2 February has set aside as Buy A Newspaper Day in the US.
Just last week, French president Nicholas Sarkozy announced a €600 million package to prop up France’s ailing newspaper industry.
The proposed measures include free newspaper subscription for 18 year-olds, paid partly by the government and partly by [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘crisis’
January 27, 2009
Boycott Buy a Newspaper Day
October 10, 2008
Picturing a downfall – financial markets in freefall
Can’t get your head around why people keep going on about this crisis? To be honest after the hell of the past week I was getting kinda bored of it too until a friend mailed me this:
Kinda makes you think again eh?
October 10, 2008
Financial crisis on a global scale
The fruits of my labours today (in addition to surviving the hangover from hell). Wanted to embed some stills, maybe I’ll get round to that later.
Today really was the day that it hit us just how out of control the financial meltdown really is.
Despite all of the measures by governments around the world, the markets [...]
October 10, 2008
Credit crisis craziness
Apologies. I’ve been under the radar this week. Blame it on the day shift and the relentless credit crisis content I’ve been churning out for the website each day.
Slightly worried that thousands of people are reading advice written by me on finance. If only they could see my bank account.
The Wire – season three has [...]
October 2, 2008
Playboy seeks banking bunnies
Forgive me for failing to support the feminist cause with this post but I was amused to read that help is on hand for bankers hit hard by the recent financial turmoil. The good Samaritan is an unlikely one.
Playboy magazine is offering current ad former employees of the financial world money to appear in its [...]
October 1, 2008
Journalism in global crisis
Following on from my post yesterday, the issue of a journalistic crisis appears to be as much of as an ongoing story as the financial crisis.
In today’s Corriere della Sera, Marco Pratellesi, editor in chief of Corriere online, blogs about Italian journalists suffering from a cultural crisis and a rupture between generations. Apparently the same issues are rocking [...]
