Monthly Archives: May 2008
Telegraph.co.uk claims top spot in UK
My former colleague at the Telegraph in London, communities editor Shane Richmond, writes a surprisingly restrained blog post noting that the Telegraph overtook the mighty Guardian in the April ABCe audience figures.
The cuts go on
It seems almost a daily occurrence and perhaps not noteworthy anymore, but here's a round-up of a few job cut announcements made by big news companies in recent days: 1. US journalism union threatens action over Reuters decision to increase its outsourcing of financial reporting to Bangalore, India. 2. Thomson Reuters is cutting 140 journalist jobs, mostly from Europe.
The moral of this *fake* story is: check
your sources
A story did the rounds earlier this month of a Texan teenager who was convicted of fraud after stealing his father's credit card and using it to buy an X-box and the services of two prostitutes. The source was a UK news site called money.co.uk. The story was posted on news sites all around the world, including here in NZ. Only trouble is, the story was a hoax.
This whole internet thing hasn’t caught on as much as we think
Lee LeFever, he who makes those wonderful 'in Plain English' videos, posted a reality check recently about how those of us who spend a lot of time online forget that most people don't.
If you could only keep one news source, what would it be?