It’s the sort of reporting that makes you feel better. Jason Booth’s almost poetic comentary on a recent trip to Puerto Rico inspired by Hunter S Thompson’s novel The Rum Diaries soothes over you, an effect due as much to its delivery as its content.
Retracing the steps of the fleeing Gonzo journalist, Booth escapes the media hubbub of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘journalism’
May 11, 2009
Escape to Puerto Rico, Hunter S Thompson style
May 11, 2009
An open invitation – journalism’s new futures
For the past year and a half I’ve been running a (more or less) monthly session where I gather together hot young talent working at the top levels of British journalism. The sessions are made up of journalists, producers and editors working in print, radio, television and online.
The ‘gatherings’ have ground to a halt after a [...]
January 27, 2009
Boycott Buy a Newspaper Day
Don’t buy a newspaper, support online advertising instead!
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 [...]
October 21, 2008
Katy Perry DID kiss a girl
Stop the presses, forget the credit crunch, dismiss concerns about global warming!
The breaking news story of the day? Californian songstress Katy Perry has admitted in a candid interview with OK magazine that she, yes, really did kiss a girl and, yes, she did like it.
What on earth is the world coming to when that counts [...]
October 20, 2008
Network news – inside the dragon’s den
Back on the day shift and the joys of the morning editorial meeting beckon.
Each morning at an hour long meeting takes place in which the programme editors of the news bulletins thrash out what news you the viewer will consume.
It’s a bit like the Roman gods; they decide what stories the correspondents will cover, where [...]
October 13, 2008
Even online advertising is doomed
In the second quarter of 2008, the online revenue of the Newspaper Association of America was down 2.4 per cent compared with last year, to $777 million.
This is the first year-over-year drop since the group began measuring online revenue in 2003.
Maybe it’s time to bail on the media game in the UK and start farming cocoa and nutmeg [...]
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 [...]
October 1, 2008
Sarah Palin, former journalism student, can’t name a national newspaper?
Sarah, Sarah. You sure do give journalism students a bad name! How can you not be able name at least one newspaper that you read on a daily basis? At least lie and mention the one paper’s website you come across while surfing Google News.
I don’t want to diss Palin on [...]
September 30, 2008
Reuters Journalism Fellowship, Oxford
Enough of these frivolous postings Zoe!
To redress the balance between the vacuous and the worthy, here’s the text behind an address I made last Saturday at the Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme’s 25th anniversary event at Oxford University.
I took part in a Moral Maze style debate (yes there is more to be than blogging about boys). The topic was “Good journalism [...]
September 16, 2008
Credit Crunch or Monetary Meltdown
Ok, ok! My hands are up!
I know that as a member of the media I have no leg to stand on when complaining about the incessant flood of credit crunch news. I’m the first to admit that my trade is seriously culpable of pouring petrol onto the financial turmoil that we’re in.
That said, the prospect of having to face [...]
