Monthly Archives: December 2009

NewsNow ditches Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mirror

*Breaking* UK news aggregator NewsNow is pulling links to many of the UK’s biggest national newspapers after failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA). The NLA had threatened NewsNow with legal action if it did not change the way it does business or

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Posted in Journalism, Newspapers

BBC Five Live 1, ITV 0

By all accounts Newcastle United’s two-nil away win at Coventry on Wednesday night was a turgid affair. Regardless, well done BBC Radio Five Live for making it the station’s live commentary on a night of Champions’ League football. By my

Posted in Radio, TV

How Tiger and Obama became golf’s bogey men

In an effort to extend the shelf life of its products, the magazine industry uses cover dates that bear little relation to the point at which the publication is produced and available. And thus the January issue of Golf Digest,

Posted in Magazines

Climate change consensus: try this for size

Journalism by committee is usually to be avoided but, despite itself, a leader article published today in 56 newspapers across 45 countries – and in 20 languages - is surprisingly cogent. And readable. (My New Statesman colleague George Eaton has pulled out the

Posted in Journalism, Newspapers
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Previously, I was digital director / deputy editor at the New Statesman, the multimedia editor at Channel 4 News, launch editor of Channel 4 FactCheck, editor-in-chief at Directgov and editor-in-chief of silicon.com.

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