Politico: The British press’s Obama complex
Sunday, 27 September 2009, 23:48
"Stories about the special relationship … have been a staple of British media since the Cold War and have shaped the way Brits see the world, said Nicholas Cull, a U.K. native who directs the masters program in public diplomacy at the University of Southern California. 'British people come here and they’re surprised that America has special relationships with a lot of countries,' he said. 'It’s rather like finding out that you’re father is a bigamist. I found it to be a very strange experience to find that the story that I’d heard growing up wasn’t necessarily so.'"
New York Times: Paper Is Still the Medium, in Britain, for the Big Scoop
Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:05
"[In the United States], blogs like Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, TechCrunch and TMZ regularly break big stories. There are few equivalents in Britain. Conservative bloggers like Paul Staines and Iain Dale have sizable readerships, but scoops still mostly appear on paper. While Fleet Street is as hypercompetitive as ever, its relationship with blogs is more symbiotic than the parallel connection in the United States, where bloggers portray the 'mainstream media' as the enemy or, worse, an irrelevance."
Design Issues: Putting Government Data online
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:22
Tim Berners-Lee: "Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data. Start with the "low-hanging fruit". Whatever else, the raw data should be made available as soon as possible."
Design Issues: Putting Government Data online
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:22
Tim Berners-Lee: "Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data. Start with the "low-hanging fruit". Whatever else, the raw data should be made available as soon as possible."
Wired.co.uk: Crunch time for British newspapers
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 05:50
Peter Kirwan: "[Many] of our wilder ideas about what’s happening to British journalism have emerged, by osmosis, from the US. … In some ways, however, the US newspaper market is different from ours. … In terms of sheer awfulness, the numbers reported by some of America’s metro newspapers outstrip anything we’re seeing in the UK. … In the US, debt has become a problem in ways that still seem exotic from a UK perspective. … Locked into a US-style patchwork of local monopolies, Britain’s regional chains have spent the last six months watching their print-based ad revenues melting into thin air. … The stakes are not quite so high – yet – for Britain’s national press."
New York: Did Toby Young Plagiarize Passages From the ‘Times’ For ‘How to Lose Friends & Alienate People’?
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 16:03
Toby Young: "I don't think it's a sort of mealy-mouthed or weasely defense to say that the standard that British journalists are expected to hold themselves to are not as high as the standards that some American journalists hold," he explained. "We're a little less precious about this kind of thing." (via Romenesko)
Monday, 14 July 2008, 19:51
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"American journalists … regard themselves as members of a respectable profession – like lawyers or bankers. Their British counterparts generally prefer the idea that they are outsiders."
Thursday, 14 February 2008, 10:54
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Brian Cubbison of the Syrcuse Post-Standard takes up my challenge for an American journalist to respond to the Iain Martin’s criticism of American headline style. Must read, funny stuff.
Saturday, 12 January 2008, 09:06
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Roy Greenslade: "The situation is very different in Britain, of course, where there has long been a division of content between national papers and the regional press. Our local papers already focus on what’s happening in their areas. That’s their raison
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 16:42
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A important case with major implications for US journalists sued under English libel law is working its way through the US courts, but few people are paying any attention to it…
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 16:38
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"New York [state]’s highest court decided Thursday a state law can’t help a Manhattan author block a libel verdict brought against her in [the High Court in] London by a Saudi billionaire over her book ‘Funding Evil’"
Saturday, 8 December 2007, 11:38
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"Russell Baker from Amazon … was tight-lipped about when the device is likely to go on sale in the UK but suggested that it would come here eventually – unlike the Sony Reader."
