On Sunday, the World Darts Championship begins again at Alexandra Palace in London. The 18-day-long competition is one of the best sporting events of the year. No, American readers, I haven’t gone mad. It’s true! Christmas officially starts the first time you hear that music. It is hard to explain why to anyone outside of […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need for the WSL to get more competitive if it is going to maintain media interest. This weekend was very illustrative. The managers actually like to emphasise how difficult the league is. Tottenham’s Robert Vilahamn called the WSL “crazy competitive” in a press conference on Friday. Chelsea boss
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New British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy made her first appearance in front of the House of Commons committee shadowing her department today. Ahead of that, told The Guardian that British TV has a “major problem” with diversity and that this was driving people to streaming services. “We’re seeing people
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It’s a Tuesday evening in early December and I’m in church. This, for various reasons, is not exactly a regular occurrence for me. There is no service taking place though. Instead, the congregation is here to worship the stars of their favourite podcast. On a stage positioned near a lovely Christmas tree, Carl Miller, the
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In the The Times, Martyn Ziegler reported that the rules that prevent football being in shown live in the UK between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday might finally dropped. Thanks goodness for that – it has been a bug bear of mine for a while. We’re probably going to have to wait until 2028
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The BBC is, once again, talking about itself. This time, Masterchef host Gregg Wallace (pictured on right) is in the spotlight. It follows a string of allegations about inappropriate conduct against him. Furthemore, the TV chef posted an unpleasant video, dismissively describing his accusers as “middle-class women of a certain age”. Now, the Beeb has
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I don’t normally make a habit of making the newsletter about me, but today I must. I have resigned from the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). It has become a hostile environment for Jews, and I can no longer be a part of that. (Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve had to leave an
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As I’ve written before, women’s football in the UK is growing as a media proposition. It’s why a mega new deal was announced recently. There is no doubt that the BBC and Sky have been drawn in by both the Lionesses phenomenon and the growing quality of the teams at the top of the Women’s
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In the last couple of weeks, and the last few days in particular, there has been a huge amount of buzz around Bluesky. The social media app looks reassuringly like Twitter in “the good old days”. It is the latest beneficiary of the anti-Elon Musk/Donald Trump backlash, with the number of users shooting up. A
Bluesky Now Matters to the Media. So it Matters. Read More »
You can read about the politics elsewhere, and I’ll doubtlessly discuss it with my co-host Emma Burnell on this week’s House of Comments podcast episode. Here, though, I want to look at the media coverage and reaction to Donald Trump’s victory yesterday. One thing to note, is how fractured the coverage was. Firstly, there was
Trump Wins, the Media Loses. Again. Read More »
