TheMediaBriefing
Keep up to date with my articles for TheMediaBriefing here (or the RSS feed is here).
I also upload video interviews with media movers, shakers, big cheeses and so on to YouTube, the channel for which is TheMediaBriefing.
paidContent:UK
All my paidContent work is here and all the posts syndicated to Guardian.co.uk are indexed here. But here are some specific examples…
Interviews
Newspaper economics
Press Gazette
News
- The People ‘s sports editor fired for financial irregularity
- Murray Morse joins Daily Sport as editor-in-chief
- NUJ could share office with broadcasting union Bectu
- Npower uses stalker law to ban photographers from beauty spot destruction
- The arrest of Milton Keynes journalist Sally Murrer
- Shiv Malik vs Greater Manchester Police
Interviews
- Ted Jeory, East London Advertiser – the man who gave up a big-money job in the City to chase exclusives for his local paper
- Roger Alton, editor of The Independent – just after he left The Observer, he was on sparkling form.
- Alan Jones, editor of Uncut - on his (sort of) involvement in the murder of John Lennon.
- Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger – on how The Guardian, Observer and Guardian.co.uk will work in future.
- The BBC’s Robert Peston, the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles and The Daily Mail’s City editor Alex Brummer - on reporting the recession.
- Daily Mirror associate editor Matt Kelly – on the Mirror’s retro/modern new look.
- Sunday Times executive editor Tristan Davies - on The Sunday Times’s retro/modern new look.
Technology features (print only!)
- February 2010 – “Don’t worry, be appy” – the rise of newspaper smartphone apps
- March 2010 – feature on paywalls
- April 2010 – Reporters’ Guide to the General Election – a sponsored supplement I wrote, commissioned and edited.
Liveblogging
Sponsored supplements
- March 2010 – Reporters’ Guide to the General Election (pdf link)
Journalism.co.uk
Interviews
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-interview-incisive-media-global-ceo-tim-weller-on-new-ownership-structu/”>Incisive Media CEO Tim Weller on the company’s split and its future</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-emap-raise-the-paywall-in-next-few-weeks/”> Emap CEO David Gilbertson on charging for B2B content online</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-julie-meyer-interview-in-progress/”> Ariadne Capital CEO, Spinvox investor and Dragons’ Den inhabitant Julie Meyer on her investment philosophy</a></i>
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-interview-peter-bazalgette-on-why-cash-is-king-in-the-web-economy/”> Peter Bazalgette on TV, investment and start-ups</a></li>
Newspaper economics
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-as-readers-flee-papers-ask-those-left-to-pay-more/”>Newspaper circulation goes down, cover prices go up – some media number crunching</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-freebie-metro-planning-up-to-30-lifestyle-layoffs/”>Metro makes 30 regional redundancies</a></li>
<li><a>Why Murdoch has lost faith in free</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-why-ridding-and-murdoch-cant-stop-talking-about-pay-walls1/”>Why Ridding and Murdoch can’t stop talking about paywalls</a></li>
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Media appearences
Academic work

