Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

The right hemisphere…

The right hemisphere…

THERE are some people out there who know less about World Cup football than I do. This picture proves it. I stumbled across it within five minutes of reading this column earlier today in which Matt Greenough reflected: South America has always existed in my mind as an exotic, fantastic, slightly dangerous and almost unreal [...]

The mad, maddening world of advertising

The mad, maddening world of advertising

Advertising, so long the main funder of the content we do like, is changing. And nobody really knows what the new business models will look like

What should a Journalism MA for the 21st century look like?

What should a Journalism MA for the 21st century look like?

The MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University has been hailed as the most forward thinking course of its kind, even the future of journalism. Here, its originator argues that its innovation comes predominantly from the students

Is there anybody out there?

Is there anybody out there?

David Cameron has been installed in Number 10. But who won the media wars that this General Election provided? And do we care?

Forget The West Wing: it’s Radio Time in Britain

Forget The West Wing: it’s Radio Time in Britain

The leaders’ debates were bad democracy and worse television. But is it the shows or the scripts that need changing?

Easter Gifts from the Daily Mail

Well, sort of. Take 2 minutes and 47 seconds out of your Bank Holiday and enjoy this little ditty. And if you still need a laugh, this Facebook group on the Daily Mail and cancer should oblige. My particular favourites are: Being a Woman Being a Man Candle-lit dinners Flip Flops Shaving Working Quite how [...]

No more who, what, where, when, why

No more who, what, where, when, why

The media continues to grapple with fundamental changes in news consumers’ expectations. But, individually and collectively, journalists need to be responding in ways that embrace the changes and show that the old ways are dead

Bring this Barry boy back home

Bring this Barry boy back home

Gareth Jones broke a worldwide story when he reported on the Ukrainian famine in the new Soviet Union of the 1930s. Now that his importance is finally being recognised, it is important that people in Wales get a chance to discover his work

Built by migrants, not druids

Built by migrants, not druids

“National identity” is the foundation myth of most hostility to immigration. It is particularly egregious in Wales, a country that would not even exist but for the mass migration of the industrial revolution, and which bears such responsibility for today’s population movements

Lights, camera, opportunity

Lights, camera, opportunity

Technology is supposed to change our lives, but can new media developments really make a social and economic impact on poorer parts of Wales? A new project based at the University of Wales, Newport aims to find out

Jonathan Ross’s salary is none of our business

Jonathan Ross’s salary is none of our business

The debate of how the BBC remunerates its star attractions betrays the intentions of commercial media, and a desire to end public service broadcasting

Left reeling

Left reeling

IT MUST be hard to be a journalist and try to remain fully impartial at times. No matter how much painstaking care the BBC and others take to get the details of allegations concerning Gordon Brown’s ill-temper right, they cannot help but to shorten it to “Brown Bullying row” during news summaries. For Labour’s people, [...]