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A collection of 75 posts
Malayala Manorama and the flooding of Kerala
Kerala in India has been hit by devastating floods over the summer. A years ago I was over there, working with the journalists who are now covering the tragedy.
Quartz obsesses over Victorian newspapers
Quartz‘s daily Obsessions e-mail is a rather wonderful thing, in its randomness. Some days, the e-mail gets deleted unread, because I have neither the time nor the inclination to read the subject on offer, and some days I devour…
Newspapers are becoming magazines, and the New York Times is leading the way
The New York Times has redesigned the opening spread of the print edition to make it more of a digest of everything the outlet is doing across all media. So, yes, that include capturing the best of its journalists’ tweetstorms…
The danger of an over-simplifying culture
Seth Godin: The bestselling novel of 1961 was Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent. Millions of people read this 690-page political novel. In 2016, the big sellers were coloring books. Fifteen years ago, cable channels like TLC (the “L” stood…
The end of presidential access journalism in the US
David Remnick writing for the New Yorker about Trump’s meeting the the US press: “But he truly doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment,” the source continued. “He doesn’t. He thinks we are supposed to say what…
Reach of print newspapers falling fast
Just 31% of Brits get their news from print newspapers And that’s down from 40% a year ago. Worryingly, there’s a rise in those who don’t follow the news at all.…
Malcolm Coles on predictability and cat GIFs
Stealing the punchline from Peter Yeung’s interview with Malcolm Coles of The Telegraph: There’s no way I’d have predicted the end of 2015 at the beginning of the year, so I’ve no bloody idea what’s…