February 16, 2020• News
Update Private Eye sums all of this up succinctly: I’ve never watched Love Island. It’s not my kind of programme. Likewise, I...
April 3, 2019• News
In March last year, Apple bought the digital magazine service, Texture. Texture’s business model was relatively straightforward – users...
March 25, 2019• News
Great Northern, who operate the trains on my daily commute, have just introduced some brand new Class 717 rains. These have been long in...
November 2, 2018• Internet, News
I’m something of a news junkie, and I spend a lot of time reading stories on a reasonably wide range of news sites. I pay for a...
November 11, 2017• News, TV
In the last few days, both Sky News and CNN have become tangentially embroiled in ongoing media takeovers. In both cases, there could be an...
July 28, 2016• Media, News
Recently the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its annual Digital News Report, authored by Nic Newman. If...
February 29, 2016• Media, News
Well full marks for bravery. The New Day really is a different offering to the rest of the national news offering. It’s Trinity...
December 31, 2015• Internet, News
There’s no two ways about it. Comments are broken. By that I mean, commenting systems on nearly any site that drives a large amount...
October 9, 2015• News, TV
A couple of years ago, I moaned on this blog about the growth of streaming video in place of satellite links in news programmes. In short,...
May 22, 2015• Media, News, Radio, TV
Ofcom, the UK broadcast regulator, carries out an awful lot of research, most of which it publishes on its website. But people are lazy,...
December 31, 2015• Internet, News
A Comment-Free 2016
There’s no two ways about it. Comments are broken. By that I mean, commenting systems on nearly any site that drives a large amount...