Record radio ratings – still a relevant medium
As Queen’s song Radio Ga Ga said in 1984 “You had your time, you had the power you’ve yet to have your finest hour”, and it seems as if that might be true. The publication of the latest Rajars show...
View ArticleInjunctions get tabloids all of a twitter
Under all the debate about the role injunctions are having in stopping the press talking about celebrities indiscretions there in an interesting sub-text about what place the media – in particular...
View ArticleEconomic times force daily paper switch
Having battled falling circulations and the digital revolution this week’s news from the daily Torquay Herald Express gives a new warning to regional newspapers. Northcliffe has decided to cease daily...
View ArticlePR evolves for the digital audience
One possible subtitle for this week’s business and media news could be “a dose of commercial reality”. On the high street Thorntons, Jane Norman, Habitat, TJ Hughes and Kitchens Direct are all either...
View ArticleIs News International still a bit Old Skool?
Within minutes of James Murdoch sounding the death knell on the News of the World, the twittersphere was crackling with the rumour that The Sun would become a seven day a week title. The evidence...
View ArticleMurdochs meet their phone hacking nemesis
The Murdochs – father, Rupert, and son, James – face Parliament today to answer for the phone hacking scandal that has dominated UK media coverage in what is normally the so-called “Silly Season” of...
View ArticleLow take up of magazines’ digital editions
Hidden away in the latest ABC issued last week were interesting facts relating to digital editions of magazines. With the growth, in particular of tablets and e-readers, you would have expected it to...
View ArticleTechcrunch Time for Media Future
We’ve often talked about the demise of dead wood and ink (and sometime of its resilience) on this blog. What then of the fortunes of the natural successor to newspapers; online media? TechCrunch...
View ArticleNLA v Meltwater dispute may hit Newspapers
A copyright dispute between Meltwater and the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) comes to a head today when the UK’s copyright tribunal sits to consider whether Meltwater’s users will need to pay a...
View ArticleOnline Viewers Switch on to Public Speaking
A guest post by Tom Maddocks of Media Training Associates In the era of the TV news ‘soundbite’, the idea of a long political speech appeared to most of us be very old-fashioned, something that would...
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