Rhetoric and facts
An interesting week to visit the US with some historic mid-term elections producing the biggest vote against a sitting President for more than 70 years. There’s been plenty of analysis of the results...
View ArticleShrinking World
The Media Standards Trust has a new study published into the delcine of international reporting in the British Press. “Shrinking World” estimates that in parts of the British press, foreign coverage...
View ArticleThe State of American Journalism
Alan Mutter – a former newspaper executive,Silicon Valley CEO and academic at Berkeley Journalism School has renewed the call for american journalism to abandon any pretence at objectivity. “It’s time...
View ArticleAre Foreign Correspondents Redundant?
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford is publishing a study I’ve written on the future of International News. Downloads or purchasable here. Here’s the introduction: Foreign news...
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Chinese diplomacy
There’s been much discussion and speculation about the visit of China’s leader, President Hu Jintao to Washington this week. Just what was discussed in his talks with Barack Obama in the White House? I...
View ArticleEdelman Trust Barometer
Last week was a big week in the Edelman calender: the publication of our annual Trust Barometer. Our CEO Richard Edelman has written up the headlines and changes here. Among the many intriguing results...
View ArticleMedia Literacy
By far the best book on journalism I read was “The Elements of Journalism” by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosentiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in the US – part of the Pew Center. When I ran...
View ArticleManaging a many layered crisis
What happens when your firm’s operations are hit by not one physical disaster but three in quick succession? And the CEO is on the other side of the world, far removed from the centre of operations?...
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Drawing back the curtain on News’s Wizard of Oz
The freeing of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by an Italian court this week revealed some awful gaffes by the media trying to rush to judgement. Numerous outlets, on hearing the word guilty...
View ArticleDigital Disruption of Power
I recently chaired a discussion at Chatham House, the international affairs think tank, on how digitization is revolutionising our world. It started with an interview with Heather Brooke, the...
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