The transfer window seems to have opened early in the world of British sports journalism. There have been major moves at The Times and The Athletic. On Wednesday, Henry Winter announced he had been made redundant from his role leading football coverage at The Times. It seems, on the face of it, a bizarre decision […]
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Tuesday’s newsletter was all about the phenomenon of daily news podcasts. Paid subscribers were treated to insights from Dave Hamilton from BackBeat Media (who sells advertising for The Addition) and Tom Merritt from “Daily Tech News Show” (which I appear on roughly once a month). They are very much worth reading. I was also in
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The Addition Podcast is back! This week, guest Kelly Guimont joins host Charlotte Henry. They discuss Jon Stewart’s revelations about Apple, tech companies becoming media companies, the most streamed shows and more.
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Most media outlets, certainly the major ones, have to be multimedia offerings. Newspapers need to provide videos, games and… podcasts. Daily news podcasts have become particularly popular. The New York Times and The Times newspapers are among those that offer such a product. Then there is “The News Agents” from Global and Persophonica. It was
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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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In today’s newsletter, I looked at the renewed focus on the funding of the BBC. A new expert panel on the issue and changes to the cost of the licence fee have been announced. I contacted the corporation whilst writing the story. However, I had to send it out before they responded. They have though
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Channel 4 published a summary of its investigation into what was known about the allegations around Russell Brand on Thursday. It found “no evidence to suggest that there was knowledge within the channel of the allegations contained in the Dispatches programme about Russell Brand’s behaviour while he was a presenter on Big Brother’s Big Mouth
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