Hysterical woman – also a Spanish government minister – ruins AP copy
I don’t mean to sound over emotional – it’ll just be the hormones acting on my smaller female brain – but I’ve got a problem with a report yesterday from the Associated Press about Charme Chacon, the...
View ArticleJournalism in Africa: Kenyan government relaxes communication laws
Dennis Itumbi reports for Journalism.co.uk from Nairobi on the media in Kenya: The Kenyan Government has bowed to pressure from media owners and dropped plans to outlaw cross-media ownership and...
View ArticlePolice attitude to the press will improve says Home Office
The UK Home Office will try and improve relations between the press and police, the National Union of Journalists reported yesterday. In a statement on their website the NUJ welcomed news that the...
View ArticleBBC News: Women’s Institute to report sex ads in local newspapers
Harriet Harman, the UK government’s minister for women, will ask the organisation to seek out ‘sleazy adverts’ and complain to editors of the papers carrying them. Harman is concerned in particular...
View ArticleMediaGuardian: Government could relax local media ownership rules
As part of his Digital Britain report to be released later this month, Lord Carter, minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, is expected to recommend relaxing ownership regulations in...
View ArticleCMS2009: @DigitalBritain on Twitter but you won’t find @LordCarter
As MediaGuardian’s MediaMonkey has already noted and @journalism_live tweeted, the UK minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, Lord Carter, does not Twitter, and he has ‘no real...
View ArticleNISNews.nl: Netherlands media minister employs 60 ‘government journalists’
“Media minister Ronald Plasterk is making 60 young journalists government employees. They will work however for commercial daily newspapers,” reports NIS News. Full story at this link… (via EJC)Similar...
View ArticleJon Bernstein: A telling tale of the twittercrat who wasn’t
So the government is not seeking another Twittercrat after all, ‘someone (…) paid to teach the [it] how to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Bebo’. On one level this is a shame. Take this...
View ArticleBBC faces attack from both sides
“At a time when the government’s Digital Britain report has argued that the licence fee should be ‘top-sliced’ and shared with the BBC’s competitors, the corporation finds itself unusually short of...
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