No one but a fool ever wrote but for money. So said Dr Johnson, but what happens to writers in a recession, when no one can afford to pay them? The FT reminds us that Franklin D. Roosvelt was astute to this problem during the Great Depression. He went so far as to set up [...]
So farewell, then, Jim Beresford. You were once on the Solicitors’ Roll. And you had a Practising Certificate. But following a novel approach to litigation for miners suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, you have been struck off. You cry foul, saying you did nothing wrong, and add: “That’ll be £23,273,256 in 2006 alone, thank [...]
It would be nice to comment on some positive news for the newspaper industry, but sadly it just gets worse and worse. Click here to learn of yet more woe, this time from across the pond. As the FT’s John Gapper writes, “On Monday, the Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los [...]
Who’d be a journalist? Only those with a compulsive need to flirt with disaster, if a report by Deloitte in the Financial Times is to be believed. Apparently, the industry outlook for 2009 has “gone from difficult to ‘impossible’, as newspapers and magazines, already weakened by the rise of online advertising and falling readership, experience [...]
It’s official: text-speak is now part of everyday English. As lexicographer Jonathon Green, editor of the recently published Chambers Slang Dictionary, tells today’s Telegraph: “What we’re seeing is the influence of technology coupled with current events and, inevitably of the young, who in many cases drive language. It’s focused on this world of mobile phones [...]
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