The FT had an interesting piece on the newspaper industry on Saturday. There was “plenty of evidence to support the theory that newsprint will be finished in a generation”, wrote Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, from the “cash-strapped Boston Globe… carrying front page advertising” to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s ongoing slide to closure. Edgecliffe-Johnson also cited the publisher of [...]
The BBC’s decision not to broadcast a charity appeal to help the stricken people of Gaza rebuild their homes is baffling. How, we wonder, will it report the matter, now that it has engendered such controversy and been signed off for broadcast by ITV and Channel 4? There’s more on the BBC’s lamentable failure to [...]
So hello, then, Jonathan Ross. You are back, after three months on your sofa, Where you ate a lot of crisps. It is good to see you again. But we’re not sure that Andrew Sachs and Georgina Baillie agree.
There’s a fine piece at Plagiarism Today headlined ‘5 Stupid Copyright Questions That Aren’t‘. Its author, Jonathan Bailey, ably demystifies much of the confusion about copyright, a 300-year-old notion which critics say needs a makeover if it is ever to cope with the online, social media world. We’ve added some of our own copyright questions, [...]
A couple of weeks ago, the FSA decided to end the ban on short-selling that it introduced last September. We predicted that the ban would be short-lived, and so it was. Just as predictable are the calls to ban short-selling again. Not entirely remarkably, there appears to be “disturbing anecdotal evidence” that hedge funds are [...]
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In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).