Despite having to cover the lives of other people, journalism is a rather introspective industry. Journalists love talking about journalism. I write this newsletter, for goodness sake! But there is something unique about films about journalists and journalism – the tone they tend to take and the mystique that they build around our industry. I’m […]
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One of the first things many of us learn when we get into journalism is to personalise big issues. Tell a story. You often hear journalists express how they want to “tell peoples’ stories” or similar. It is hard to process the big numbers and the big picture, but we can all latch on to
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This week, John Stewart hosted Lina Khan, chair of the FTC on “The Daily Show”. During a somewhat sycophantic interview, the host explained how Apple vetoed the same conversation when he was making a show for Apple TV+. He also said that the company didn’t want him to do a segment on AI. We knew
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Today marks 30 years of BBC Radio 5Live, the sports and news talk station. It’s the sibling of Radio 4 that’s really into football. I’ve written before that the station often accompanies me for large parts of the weekend – from “Fighting Talk” in the morning (not the same without Colin Murray,) to the football
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Medialand has been gripped by the meltdown at NBC over the last few days. A brief recap: NBC hired Ronna McDaniel to be a contributor on a £300,000 per year contract. She is a former chair of the RNC, essentially leading the Republican’s election efforts during the Trump era. Her hiring led to open revolt
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Should you start a newsletter? I’ve been running The Addition for over two years and it has got me thinking about why a) I enjoy it and b) emails are such a powerful tool. As with podcasts, not everybody needs one. However, there are very good reasons to begin, whether you are in journalism or
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There is a clear moment in tech journalist Kara Swisher’s new memoir, “Burn Book” where she takes the leap into becoming an entrepreneur. “I realized, in short, that I was and would always be a great reporter and a less good employee,” she writes. “Which led me to the obvious conclusion that I wanted to
Media Voices Lessons From The Creator Economy: Owning your work is crucial Read More »
Ever since it launched, there have been discussions about the “originals only” approach of Apple TV+. It has chosen to spend money on (expensive) quality, not quantity. “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a perfect example of this. However, it does mean the service offers a limited content library. That is all well and good
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For a while, it was tempting just to ignore GB News, the British right-wing TV channel. The production was bad, the audience was small. All-in-all, it wasn’t really making much of a difference to anything. Back when it launched in June 2021, there was the distinct possibility it would crash and burn very quickly. This
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For some time, media and tech seemed to play along nicely. Outlets pivoted to platforms and those platforms were more than happy to scoop up and push out the free content. Today, it seems to be an all-out war. We’ve already had the NYT taking on OpenAI in an increasingly bitter legal battle. Now, 32
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