Uncovered: British journalists who are spooks

While it might be difficult to identify precisely the impact of the spooks (variously represented in the press as “intelligence”, “security”, “Whitehall” or “Home Office” sources) on mainstream politics and media, from the limited evidence it looks to be...

TextTime revolutionizes editorial workflows

"Until today, texts have traditionally been measured by word-counts, character counts, lines, inches or centimeters. These units are standard at magazines, newspapers and websites, but for podcasts or video productions they are pretty much useless.Converting text lengths into...

ITV to merge regional newsrooms

"Broadcaster ITV is hoping to reduce its number of regional newsrooms from 17 to nine by merging some services. The broadcaster aims to save between £35m and £40m a year to invest in programmes with the closures, but must get permission from regulator Ofcom. The London,...

What Ails The CDC

"Staff turnover, morale problems and charges of mismanagement couldn't have come at a worse time for the guardians of U.S. public health. Julie Gerberding was still a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2001 when someone started mailing...

NY Times shocked that Hewlett Packard set to spy on newsrooms...journalists d...

The news, on the face of it, is alarming. One of the world's most powerful corporations doing a feasibility study on "embedding" spies in the Wall Street Journal and CNET.Industrial spying within the news business is, however, as old as journalism itself. There are very few...

Iraq Freedom Day

This day marks the third anniversary of when the (residents) of Baghdad (spontaneously) toppled Saddam's statue.

truth in an abstract sense

A wake-up call to anyone who thinks they are seeing balanced discourse.