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How I tripped up on computers - just like my newspaper
Jeremy Vine
We gathered, a small group of us, on the other side of the traffic lights. I wished I had worn warmer clothing - the bright sunshine that morning had misled me. This was a bracing Coventry day, and there was not much of a welcome on other fronts either. Across the road was the office where I ...
Public service broadcasting without public money
Philippa Thomas
is a BBC News correspondent. Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/PhilippaNews">@PhilippaNews</a>
Do we need publicly funded broadcasting? Is it a luxury rather than a necessity, given the explosion of information on the internet? Is it a cash drain we can't afford in this age of austerity? Is it an idea whose time has gone? Put these questions to a Republican member of the United States C...
Do journalists give Apple an easy ride?
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
At 6pm this evening, UK time, Apple will be announcing ... something. The FT predicted on Sunday that it will be a second-generation iPad, but, according to the well-informed Engadget yesterday, "There's really no telling what could happen tomorrow at Apple's little event." So, stand by and...
The fall and rise of Russian media
Stephen Ennis
is Russian media analyst for BBC Monitoring.
On 18 October, the magazine Russkiy Newsweek hit the news-stands for the last time. Over the six years or so that it had been published in Russia under licence from the owners of the US Newsweek magazine, it had built up a talented group of journalists and gained a reputation for feisty, indepen...
Michael Wolff: at the intersection of old and new media
Matthew Wells
contributes to a range of British media outlets from his home in New York.
He's got an influential column in a glossy magazine, but he's also behind a cutting-edge online news aggregator. Michael Wolff admits to biting the hand that feeds him. He's not the most popular media commentator in New York City, but he's been one of the most prescient since the dawn of ...
YouTube nibbles away at big media
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
What are the implications of YouTube Direct? It's designed to help organisations - including broadcasters - solicit and select video material. YouTube handles the hosting of the videos and offers an interface to manage them on a website: "news organizations can ask for citizen repor...
Financial journalism: boom or bust?
Charles Miller
edits this blog. Twitter: @chblm
How well have financial journalists acquitted themselves in the current crisis? Were they too passive - ignoring signs of an overheated, overcomplicated market which, in retrospect, any old fool could see was about to implode? Or too assertive - making too much of early signs of trouble and crea...
