Media: Fox News brings Rupert Murdoch vast profits and huge reach in the US, but has the channel become a monster out of his control?
Read full article...A new year always offers the possibility of new hope. Surely, after the worst 12 months for the media in modern history, things can only get better in 2010. The recession will recede. Confidence will return. Advertising will pick up.
Media Analysis: Every year in newspapers is a year of crisis. It is true of what we report about the world and, increasingly in the last decade, true of what we live through within our own trade
Media analysis: If anyone wanted a demonstration of a media feeding frenzy, then the treatment of Tiger Woods since his car accident has been a classic example
AT the World Congress of Newspapers in Hyderabad, India, it has been impossible to escape the sense of change.
There was a time, so long ago that the memory only comes back to me now in dreams, when Granada TV's regional news programmes were vital viewing. They were brilliantly presented, and had the ability to set the agenda because their reporters produced stories of real note and even indulged in investigative journalism.
Is it possible to save traditional media companies in the face of the twin threats of a digital revolution and the recession? That question has not only been asked with increasing urgency over the past couple of years, it has stimulated plenty of answers too.
It is time for journalists to rebuild a relationship with politicians. This sounds crazy after the expenses debacle and in view of the daily drip-drip of poison administered to MPs in newspapers on a daily basis.
Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be cheerful
Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities
It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence
It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence
Plan to charge for online news is raising doubts about his leadership
I admire Andrew Marr’s work as a broadcaster and writer. He combines political sophistication and a deep knowledge of his subject with an almost boyish enthusiasm
Imminent deal could be a major fillip after years of under-reporting of local law courts and councils
Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers by suggesting the ban on product placement could be lifted
To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance to the O’Reilly family, most notably its patriarch, Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly
The final sentence of James Murdoch’s speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival was hugely significant: “The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit"
Our commentator argues that, after his own experience in court, Sir David Eady is a threat to press freedom
The disgraced former Downing Street spin doctor, Damian McBride, broke his silence on Monday by giving interviews in print and on radio in an obvious attempt to rescue his reputation
Swap your pad in London for one in Paris, New York, Rome, Barcelona… the new way to travel in 2010.
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