Category: Media Ethics

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Published: 01 March 2009

WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR NEWS

By Andrew Currah

Published by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford.

Andrew Currah deserves to be commended for providing an insight into the rapidly-evolving world of online journalism.  He fears the clickstream of consumption for news and information will be used increasingly to shape the content of websites to the detriment of editorial values and the wider public interest.  In the multi-media hubs of newspapers which are investing heavily in digital output, the most popular stories are indicated on visual display screens.  Real-time feedback is already beginning to determine the allocation of news room resources. 

 

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Published: 11 February 2009

Self-regulation “rules ok” was the general consensus when internet industry experts were invited by the Westminster Media Forum (11.2.2009) to consider whether online content regulation was the only practical solution to the task of “taming the wild web”. Media companies and internet service providers argued that the “huge reduction in child abuse images on UK sites” demonstrated the effectiveness of a co-operative approach between industry, government and consumers.

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Published: 28 January 2009

In a lecture to students at Brunel University (27.1.2009) Nicholas Jones set out the challenges which journalists will face as newspaper groups expand their audio-visual online output and compete head on with established broadcasters.  Newspapers like the Sun and the News of the World are showing how the Murdoch press is joining up the dots.  News International’s purchasing power for exclusive video material – and the skill of its journalists in manufacturing news – can dictate the running order of newsrooms across the multi-media environment.  Newspaper groups are determined to maintain their influence in a digital age and are demonstrating how they can command the agenda not just in the press but in television and radio and online journalism as well.

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Published: 13 December 2008

 

British media proprietors and regulators seem confident they have made sure that the UK’s development of online television will remain out of reach of interference by the European Union.

Internet services which are considered to be "television-like" could face control under the terms of the European audio-visual directive which takes effect as from January 2009. But the British newspaper owners – backed by the Press Complaints Commission and Ofcom – believe that the rapidly expanding audio-visual output of their websites will escape European control.

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Published: 26 November 2008

Nicholas Jones explained in a speech to the Hansard Society (27.11.2008) why the growing migration to the web will change the British political landscape come the next general election.

 

When I was invited a couple of months ago to give my thoughts on the “Changing Political Landscape” who would have thought that I would be talking to you in a week when the Westminster waters parted and we saw opening up the clearest political dividing lines for a decade or more between Labour and the Conservatives. “Let battle commence” seemed to be the cry of both Alistair Darling and George Osborne. We are firmly on the countdown to a general election which will eventually offer a clear choice between spending our way out of the recession with higher public debt or by curbing state expenditure in order to limit the size of that looming tax bombshell.

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