BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | yesterday
... instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web. As Adrian Monck points out , this is really just another chapter in the ongoing soap opera about the culpability of journalists for the state of journalism today. Shafer is inspired by Pablo Boczkowski’s 2004 book Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers and I have in my hand...
currybetdotnet (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
A few days ago I was tagged by Adrian Monck with a blogging parlour game meme - " The One Blog I Read That You’ve Never Heard Of ". As it is time for my annual round-up of my favourite blogs, I thought I'd include the response in here. The blogs that I nominated in 2007 and 2006 featured, amongst others, Adrian Monck himself, AndyDickinson.net , Davblog , Diamond Geezer...
Media SITREP (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
... side of the Atlantic to last through to the launch of the paperback next year.” Beckett also liked Adrian Monck’s Can You Trust the Media , calling it” the most honest book about journalism, (‘no you can’t and you never could,’ is his answer)” and Adaptive Path’s Subject to Change . Beckett’s own book, SuperMedia was included on several lists, as was Charlie Leadbeaters’ We Think...
Lloyd@work (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
I’ve been tagged by Adrian Monck and the swine’s given me a question I realise I can’t answer: what’s the one blog you read that no-one else does? I’ve swallowed the temptation to say “yours, you dog,” but frankly having consulted Google Reader I’ve realised my tastes are tiresomely mainstream. The only vaguely edgy thing [...]
The Democratic Society blog (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Here, at Adrian Monck’s blog, is Jeremy Greenstock’s thought-provoking roundup of the recent Ditchley conference on the media and democracy. A couple of paragraphs from the conclusion (but do read the rest): In short, we found ourselves concluding that there were still huge strengths in the media industry, though more in the modern than in the [...]
charliebeckett.org (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
... Greenstock (who used to be HMG’s man at the UN amongst other things). Read his report here on Adrian Monck’s blog where he also has links to reports by Jeff Jarvis and Richard Sambrook . This is what Sir Jeremy had to say about media literacy on our behalf: “The themes of quality and “media literacy” came into our discussion, suggesting that government, the private sector and individual...
Rosenblumtv (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
This just in, courtesy of our friend Adrian Monck WUSA Moves to One-Person News Crews By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 12, 2008; Page C01 The march of technology and the shrinking economy are beginning to take a toll on the traditional means of television news-gathering: the TV news crew. Under a new agreement reached this week with [...]
charliebeckett.org (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
... assumptions, but it proved that people still care about the quality of journalism in the UK. Adrian Monck wrote the most honest book about journalism, Can You Trust The Media (no you can’t and you never could is his answer). Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes Everybody was more convincing than Charlie Leadbeate’rs We Think, but both helped advance the forward march of networked media. Freshest...
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... few survivors. — David Sullivan writes a defense of Tony Ridder and a requiem for a better day. — Adrian Monck wonders if newspapers can grow their way out of their problems by boosting online audience share. — Mark Luckie has buying hints for those shopping for journalists. In many cases, rent money would also be welcome.
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
— Adrian Monck is writing a series of posts on the interplay between journalism and democracy. In this one, he discusses the alternative sources of information for citizens. — Bill Densmore (and others) are reporting from their meeting in Missouri around the Information Valet Project. — James Gleick argues the book-publishing industry should go back to the [...]
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... can tell, no one. The task of distilling this ocean of data continues to fall to the individual. — Adrian Monck has a worthy retort to this piece in CJR decrying “Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information.” Monck: “Attention…is not scarce. It is a constant. It’s just managed in ways that readers of the Columbia Journalism Review may find disappointing.”...
