02.07.08

My overriding ambition as a cub reporter in the mid-1960s was to become a Fleet Street journalist. For reasons I now forget I became convinced that...
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25.06.08

The fact that Channel 4 is the nation's alternative public-service broadcaster is largely unknown outside the media and political elites

18.06.08

Journalists in Britain, whatever the public might think, do not have carte blanche to do as they like

11.06.08

There is never a time when the BBC is out of the news. Take the latest crop of complaints about BBC Worldwide, the public service broadcaster's...
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11.06.08

There is never a time when the BBC is out of the news. Take the latest crop of complaints about BBC Worldwide, the public service broadcaster's...
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04.06.08

James Harding has made colossal errors that could undermine the paper's status and credibility

28.05.08

A week rarely passes without someone in the media boasting about some enormous boost in their internet usage, but I'm beginning to wonder if the...
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21.05.08

Google is a media behemoth on a scale no mogul, not even Rupert Murdoch, can hope to match

14.05.08

The Sun is Britain's most loved newspaper brand and also its most hated newspaper brand. This contradiction, revealed in a Marketing magazine survey...
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07.05.08

Accepting that impartiality is impossible does not negate the effort of trying to achieve it

30.04.08

When Rupert leaves the stage, how will his successors at News Corporation regard the newspapers in their empire?

23.04.08

Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster is, in fact, Britain's biggest broadcasting nightmare

16.04.08

However much I may nod in agreement with fellow journalists who say they despise PR and all its works, I cannot deny that it is part of our media...
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09.04.08

There is a legitimate public interest in knowing how public companies conduct their tax affairs, and they should be open to scrutiny

02.04.08

Is Trinity Mirror's chief executive, Sly Bailey, worth a £793,000 bonus?

26.03.08

There is no reason why diversification cannot give journalism a wonderful new lease of life free from the continual worry about advertising

19.03.08

The media is doing rather well in reporting the crisis of the markets. A pity, then, that the markets are treating the media so very poorly. As major...
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19.03.08

Newspaper companies offering advertisers a range of platforms to sell their wares remain a good bet for the foreseeable future

05.03.08

Some three years ago, the Financial Times seemed destined for the scrap heap - but not anymore

27.02.08

The decision by Virgin Media to appeal against the Competition Commission's ruling that BSkyB must reduce its ITV shareholding, by arguing that it...
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