Peter Bale - curated media and journalism news - Issue #60
The strategy is to build a narrow audience of passionate followers and then go broad.
Big money going into some smart publishers here. It has worked for BusinessInsider (now just Insider), Politico, and probably Axios. I still find one of the most interesting publishers to be Skift, the travel site by Rafat Ali, probably one of the most imaginative leaders in media.
Had Trump said it he would be under attack and it is wrong of Biden to act this way, even if the chap is an arsehole. The bigger question is that Biden faces immense challenges -- from Ukraine to inflation -- that he may not be coping with given his age and presumably people around him.
See earlier in millions going into the media. The answer is no.
A rare case in the United States where a public figure may actually be able to make a case that she was defamed. It is all part of a serious attack on democracy and journalism but at the same time it also needs to give publishers and journalists to put fairness in their mind for all subjects.
Good analysis and a bit of a swipe at a rather weak pitch from the NYT lawyers that mistakes may have been made but they weren't malicious.
Carole is being bullied and intimidated and harassed here rather than The Guardian itself. It isn't exactly the same but there are parallels with the case against an FT journalist for a book on Putin in which oligarchs ganged up to pitch an immensely expensive case in London.
SLAPP is a really interesting concept and it is true that the UK has very poor effective protection for reporters and publishers against vexatious lawsuits. It is a big issue in the US where some states have much stronger protection -- California for example -- than others.
Good take from Nick that shows it is not just journalists in the frame of those who can tie up ordinary people in legal hell.
She will replace Fran Unsworth, who announced she was leaving the corporation last year.
Very interesting choice in all sorts of ways. People I know who know her are very loyal to her. She did have some big ethical issues to deal with at NBC around "me to" issues that she inherited and I suspect some of those will come back to bite her as the UK media attacks her in her early days.
The president never called concerned parents “domestic terrorists.” But don't tell that to Fox News.
More news from the unreality television news world.
It is interesting the way it is not the BBC but ITV and The Mirror, and weirdly The Telegraph, that have made all the running on the Boris parties story but it is the BBC that is getting the kicking. Boris was never really a friend of media in my mind: other than being quite a good editor of The Spectator. He was a charlatan at the Telegraph and liar at The Times.
See above: this has been slightly superseded by her retracting a little of it but it is the tone that betrays their hatred of one of the few quality British institutions of global reach that they haven't already eroded: City of London, great universities, engagement with Europe..etc.
A small bonus: the newsletter I do for a New Zealand site. Mostly about Ukraine and a bit about Boris.