Archive for November, 2007

Morrissey

 
I don’t know how many of you will be fans of The Smiths, or their former front-man Morrissey. For the uninitiated, The Smiths were one of the most influential indie bands of the 1980s. Their very-English, very-dry, beautiful and haunting songs were and are the soundtrack to many people’s lives in England.
 
But even if you [...]

From The Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/journalism-no-place-for-one-hit-wonders/2007/11/20/1195321743207.html?page=1
“An Australian journalist at one of the world’s most respected technology publishers says he was retrenched because his stories were not generating enough website hits.
It is one of the first cases where the firing of an Australian journalist writing text articles has been linked directly to the number of hits – [...]

un-full disclosure

Passing this along from the Times political blog …

November 16, 2007,  12:54 pm
Questions about Carville and CNN
By Julie Bosman

There are very few political analysts more closely associated with the Clintons than James Carville, who was a key adviser to Mr. Clinton in the 1992 campaign.
So it’s no surprise that Mr. Carville’s appearance on a [...]

This media-on-media story adds another dimension to the Pakistan power struggle.
“The crackdown had been long coming. Three months earlier, in March, GEO-TV’s offices were the scene of a defining moment for the journalists in Pakistan’s independent television news business—when their struggle against government restrictions itself became news, and helped them glimpse their untapped potential [...]

TV Writers on Strike

What would it be like for news writers/reporters to go on strike?