Articles: November, 2008

Sustainability: behind the buzzword

November 20, 2008

How can we trust a corporation’s protestations of environmental friendliness if that corporation has nowhere defined what it means by “sustainability”?
As Spada’s White Paper on trends in Environmental Reporting points out, all too often a precise definition of some of the terms which appear in corporate reporting is missing. Nowhere is this more glaring than [...]

Two statistics and the right-thinking person

November 20, 2008

What is a ‘right-thinking person’? For defamation lawyers, a right-thinking person is an abstract entity whose task it is to determine the natural and ordinary meaning of words.
British National Party members might prefer another definition, but they bring us to our first statistic. The names and addresses of 10,635 BNP members are in the [...]

Spada Environmental Research on CNBC

November 19, 2008

Just two days after launch, Spada’s latest white paper is already sparking debate. Click here to see Spada MD Gavin Ingham Brooke on CNBC’s Squawkbox this morning discussing environmental reporting issues.
Alternatively, you can copy and paste the following link into your browser:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=932948563&play=1

Red letter day for Web 2.0?

November 19, 2008

Curiously, many people in the media remain unaware of what is meant by the term ‘Web 2.0′. Not so, the British Government. As the HM Treasury website proudly says: Be the first to know about the Chancellor’s speech and the Treasury’s Pre-Budget Report summary, wherever you are. Text PBR to 83377 (standard rates apply) to [...]

Of law and monsters

November 19, 2008

There’s a nice piece at Hold the Front Page by media lawyer Tony Jaffa, of Messrs Foot Anstey, in which he sums up the key legal topics debated at last week’s Society of Editors conference. Perhaps chief among them is the spectre of the press losing its self-regulatory status, but data protection, freedom of information [...]

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