Why Amazon’s Kindle MatchBook service is a step backwards in owning digital media. When Amazon announced MatchBook just over a week ago, I thought that the market leader in e-reading had solved the final piece of the digital media puzzle. There are two problems with having media on digital devices these days: the issue of converting physical stuff you already …
Should the News of the World hacking scandal and Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB takeover bid have been connected?
This was originally submitted to Roy Greenslade as part of my MA assessment in Journalism & Society (a module on media history, structure and ethics). Through News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch is the world’s leading newspaper proprietor. His company is also the largest pay TV owner and stood to grow larger still if its bid for BSkyB had been approved. That …
Civil Sin
With 20,000 words left to write for April 26th and having just handed in my dissertation about six hours earlier, I should be either celebrating or furiously scribbling away the last double-spaced, footnoted pages of my degree. However, like the aspiring journalist I so crave to be defined as, instead I sat down in front of BBC One’s See You …
Crossover
This was originally posted with my application for MA Broadcast Journalism at City University, London as an original critique on a television programme within a 200-word limit, along with another one on a radio programme, on 14th March 2011. Wish me luck! Panorama: Smoking and the Bandits Date: March 7, 2011 Length: 29:00 First broadcast on BBC One, then made …
Perfect Stranger
This was originally posted with my application for MA Broadcast Journalism at City University, London as an original critique on a radio programme within a 200-word limit, along with another one on a television programme, on 14th March 2011. Wish me luck! From Our Own Correspondent (FOOC) Date: March 10, 2011 Length: 28:18 First broadcast on Radio 4, then made …
Tomorrow: don’t go out before you’ve read the paper (I’ll let you read it online)
This was originally posted on August 19th 2010, in the Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists blog-ring after I was asked to contribute to journalism.co.uk’s August Debate. As I sit in my dressing-gown at my laptop at midday, with umpteen tabs open in Firefox, I often find myself the brunt of my housemates’ ridicule. Who am I? Am I some sort of …
Homesick at Space Camp
Sorry. I’ve slipped even further behind on updating. But this time, I have an excuse, because I was actually doing things. I went to Cyprus, which was fine. Relaxing, reading my pre-University reading list, sun, sea, sand… I went to see underOATH at The Astoria, but really went for the support band, Envy on the Coast, who I met after …
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