Peter Bale - curated media and journalism news - boom, disinformation, SLAPP, and more
Not a bad analysis though it could do with more sourcing to analysts, including Greg Piechota at INMA who has done a great deal of work on the spike in subscriptions and interest in news driven by events, especially Ukraine and over the past two years, coronavirus.
She gets it right here with the cynicism. Mulvaney was part of a team of inveterate and outrageous liars in the White House with their "alternative facts" and toxic approach to serious media.
I am doing a project on Newsrooms for INMA and thought some of you might like this roundup of findings from a set of "master classes" we did recently with some excellent people from across the media industry.
I covered this before and I have some sympathy for the idea we aren't storytellers, as seductive as that might sound.
Cultural vandalism of a precious national asset in the UK. Public interest does not mean state-owned for American readers. C4 is publicly owned. There is a difference. Dorries and this government will pull the wings of this butterfly as surely as they will clip the wings of the BBC.
One of the most powerful journalistic uses of satellite data that I've seen. It is becoming a critical area and was pioneered by Bellingcat and Storyful but is being taken further by so many people, it's brilliant.
It seems hard to believe anyone would buy this nonsense but people do and of course Russian audiences are saturated with it.
It may set a global standard but it may also be unworkable which seems to be the take of my friend and perhaps the most sensible analyst about this topic, Benedict Evans. He Tweets at @benedictevans.
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Good piece on how the legal threats to journalists in the UK run far deeper than the cases we see making it to court. It is a critical issue for editors to consider the merits of a story and whether it is worth going through the hell of a story that could provoke a case. It is vital to have legal protection against SLAPP but that is unlikely in the UK.
I thought Richard was absolutely right to challenge these ridiculous restrictions which are sadly typical of some of the jumped up flunkies with whom the royals and politicians surround themselves with.