Media
The media stories to watch out for in 2010
Posted by Nicole Martin at Thu, 14/01/2010 - 10:57am in Corporate commentary
From the introduction of pay walls to the rise of on-demand television, Media Mandate looks at the media stories to watch out for in 2010:
1) Pay walls - the end of the free model?
Media Insider launched
Posted by Gary Cleland at Tue, 13/10/2009 - 4:10pm in Mandate news
Mandate's media team today launched the first edition of Media Insider - a quarterly look back at the media landscape.
If you haven't received a copy, let us know so you aren't left out in future.
In the meantime click on this link to have a look.
Blame it on the rolling news channels
Posted by Nick Laitner at Fri, 26/06/2009 - 10:58am in
One of the upsides of being a saddo news junkie is when you happen across a genuinely big story as it is breaking. So it was last night, as I was flicking mechanically between Sky News and BBC News Channel as the Michael Jackson story was first coming through, initially as "unconfirmed reports that Michael Jackson has been taken to hospital".
Reuters, Newsweek and the ever shrinking news pool
Posted by Gary Cleland at Tue, 03/03/2009 - 2:44pm in
News that global news service Reuters is confident enough to invest $1bn in its services this year gives an idea as to the direction the media is headed.
Mainstream news providers - newspapers and broadcasters as opposed to wire services like Reuters - will intentionally become reliant on generators such as Reuters to feed them the copy and digital content that form the basis of their news pages.
They save costs by reducing the number of front-line staff they employ - and will focus instead on employing authoritative commentators. They will increasingly explain the news rather than cover it. This is a model that Washington Post-owned Newsweek announced that it would move to this week in a bid to stay its declining fortunes. A recent talk by the Telegraph Media Group's digital editor also confirmed this approach.
When does a credit crunch become a recession?
Posted by Ed Jones at Fri, 16/01/2009 - 9:56am in
On the face of it, Baroness Vadera’s “green shoots of recovery” gaffe appears to be a clear example of a statement delivered by a political or media figure out of sink with the economic realities. But a closer examination of the way the past twelve turbulent months have been reported shows that critics and opinion-formers are very often ahead or behind of the economic curve.
If Baroness Vadera believed she could somehow increased confidenc
A pinch of salt
Posted by Deborah Lewis at Wed, 15/10/2008 - 5:19am in
At a lecture entitled Faith, Morality and the Media hosted by think tank Theos, the BBC's Mark Thompson asserted that most people read the media "with a pinch of salt".
It astonished me that in this multi-cultural day and age, the DG of the BBC would adopt such an Anglocentric view of the attitudes and stance of his audience.
A pinch of salt - that wonderful English expression - how representative is it of UK society?
How many teenagers - tweenagers even, under the age of 10, planning their trip to the next instalment of High School Mu
Don't quote me on this
Posted by Nick Laitner at Tue, 05/08/2008 - 7:10am in
An inspirational quote from Liverpool and England superstar Steven Gerrard, receiving his honorary fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University last month:
“I am very proud to become a Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University.
Tory Boy is back - and this time he's cool...
Posted by Jonathan Lomax at Thu, 26/06/2008 - 10:05am in
Just when it seems that things can't get any worse for Gordon Brown, it turns out that even the voters of tomorrow prefer David Cameron.
The excellent childrens paper, First News, is running an online poll asking who the 7-14-year-old readership would prefer to be Prime Minister. At the moment, Cameron is streaking ahead with 55% while Brown trails on 31% and Nick Clegg is limping along at 13%. All good fun you might think - except that some of those kids will be able to vote in the general elction after next.
O + (N xS) + Cpm/T + He
Posted by Gary Cleland at Fri, 20/06/2008 - 7:23am in
If you were wondering why you had a particular spring in your step this morning, the above equation may explain it.
Today, it appears, is the happiest day of the year, according to Walls Ice Cream.
'What do Walls Ice Cream know?' a cynic (or a journalist) might ask.
Gordon Dispatched
Posted by Jonathan Lomax at Tue, 10/06/2008 - 8:04am in
Great Dispatches on Channel 4 last night, effectively tracing the downward spiral of the Brown Government.
