I finally got round to watching Google CEO Eric Schmidt's MacTaggart lecture on youtube. The annual lecture, in memory of the pioneering and innovative writer, producer and director James MacTaggart, is the showpiece of the Edinburgh International Television Festival with previous speakers including ...

For a while it has felt like nothing could get in the way of News International. Even Vince the Cable couldn't stand in the way of the takeover of BSKYB. Miraculous forces seemed to step in by bugging him saying that he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch. The Empire once again seemed to find a way ...

BBC Journalist Andrew Marr openly admits that he is "the last of the news romantics" but he recently posted: "I am on the edge of replacing paper newspapers with electronic versions for my iPad and phone; of accepting that I hardly ever wait for a conventional ...

All over the world a brand new divide is being created. Those who have access to the free flowing information of the World Wide Web and those who don’t. This is not what British Computer Scientist Tim Berners Lee had in mind when he gave the biggest money maker of all time away for free. And it’s not just ...

The digital revolution in which any interesting organization can generate their own content and stream it online should have been a boon for think tanks. But it’s been a while coming. When I worked in policy wonkery ten years ago, I would often listen to ...

This is why the future of news is bright. People that never used to tune into the 10 o clock news are now automatically hit by important headlines when they log onto their email in the afternoon. The logistics have also been taken out of the operation as you can click on cnn.com rather than go to the shop and buy a ...