News

July 22, 2020• Media, News

News Subscriptions – and the Lack of Alternatives

I’m a bit of a news junkie. I always have been. I read a newspaper each day – and spend a lot of time online reading lots and...

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,...