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APOLLO FACT OF THE DAY: NEARLY HALF OF NEWS OF THE WORLD READERS HAVE STOPPED BUYING SUNDAY PAPERS
The Slate website, bastard child of the Washington Post, is an embarrassment of riches – but the best thing about it is their weekly political gabfest – forty minutes of inside-the-beltway discussion of politics and personalities. It works because of the chemistry with the panel. David Plotz, editor of Slate, is ...
If I had to choose one magazine to take to a desert island, it would probably not be one of the celebrated giants published in New York - Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, or Harpers -but the Atlantic. Its refreshingly outward looking focus reflects the fact that its origins ...
Arun Purie launched India Today magazine in 1975 as a strategic move to keep the printing press busy in a time of emergency. It is probably the fact that he is still the Editor that the magazine has retained such a distinctive style. So many global magazines have chopped and changed to keep pace with technology ...
When it was launched last October, i, the Independent's new cheaper sibling, felt like a last hurrah. For a while the full price Indy had been selling below 80,000 copies a day, putting it in the same circulation league as the Manchester Evening News. Staffing had been cut beyond the level where ...
When Tina Brown, former Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, launched the Daily Beast in October 2008 she said that it is not an "aggregator" - meaning it will not merely collect stories a la Yahoo News, but will "sift, sort and curate" the web every day, combining some original stuff with links to other sites' content ...
National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded, and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover ...
The FT have launched the latest incarnation of their Saturday supplement. A few star features that have been running for years have been given a reprieve - including the brilliant Undercover Economist, Miss Moneypenny and the widely ripped off First Person column. Otherwise it is year zero. FT magazine ...
It seems no other dead-tree newspaper has embraced the digital era as fully as the Guardian. Alan Rusbridger had great foresight in understanding the extent to which the internet was going to change news forever by investing early and widely in online. Critics would say that, with the largesse of the Scott Trust ...
Wired Magazine is an example par excellence of what a difference solid art direction can make. Launched in March 1993 it reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. It had a strong start but seemed to coast through most of the noughties. Then arrived a man that changed the way we look at ...
I first heard Charlie McElwee talking about China's climate change policy on BBC radio 4's 'The World at One' in the run up to the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks. I remember clocking at the time that he was the first person I heard on the airwaves discussing China's green agenda that wasn't either ...
Monocle has ruled the roost in terms of launches since it published its first issue on 15 Feb 2007. I think a lot of people, including Tyler Brule, were waiting for Tyler Brule to top Wallpaper magazine. Among his many misfires was Spruce Magazine - a terrible Wallpaper fashion spin off. But it is now generally agreed ...
VentureBeat is now the place to find out where innovation meets money. Since starting in 2006 it has of course been serving up the usual stories about Apple upgrades or Nintendo’s latest interactive game but it has a real sense of “breaking news” with ...
There are many podcasts I listen to now but if I want a quick political fix then there is only one. Guardian Politics maybe unapologizingly left leaning but it hovers way above the competition. All Guardian podcasts have learnt from the US so they sound light and fresh rather than just the highlights of a news programme ...
Left, Right and Center is a weekly half hour of public radio coming out of Los Angeles which does what it says on the tin, Tony Blankley, columnist on the Washington Times and former staffer for Newt Gingrich, Matt Miller,senior fellow at the Center for ...
Treehugger was recently bought by the Discovery Channel for a rumoured $10m. Just shows what can happen when you put a bunch of clever students together.
Treehugger began as an MBA class project five years ago and says it now generates enough ...
If you want a no nonsense approach to business news then radio 5 live’s Wake Up to Money is the answer. It’s quick and breezy approach skims across a whole range of stories covering all the key facts whilst getting across both sides of the argument. Its two main presenters hold the key to this. Mickey Clarke is ...
If you want your IT news story to be really read then put away the phone numbers of those Trade magazines. A real hit is now considered to be blog site Techcrunch. This website is another one of those trailblazing blog sites which joins The Huffington Post and Guido Fawkes – beating the official news websites at their ...
Millionaire socialite Arianna Huffington may have married oil millionaire Michael Huffington, a family friend of the Bushes, but don't hold this against her. She is extraordinarily smart. She moved to England at the age of 16 and attended Girton College at Cambridge University where in 1971 she was ...
The FT slogan "No FT, no comment" would soon become meaningless if it didn't embrace the internet and provide the very latest comment. Hardhitting Alphaville was therefore launched to give traders some freshly squeezed news in the morning. If you're a finance professionals working in hedge funds ...
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Are independent political blogs a lasting part of the media furniture? Or are they a noughties phenomena ...
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Columnists are playing a much greater role in news analysis. With so many staff cuts (Times and ...
The Slate website, bastard child of the Washington Post, is an embarrassment of riches – but ...