31 March 2014 12:00 AM
Launching a television channel is a big deal. When Channel 5 did it in 1997 they booked the Spice Girls to sing a Manfred Mann classic in reverse: “1-2-3-4-5”. Fifteen years earlier, Channel 4 had launched with a different form of Countdown – the quiz of that name, then hosted by Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman, which is still on air 32 years later.
30 March 2014 08:47 PM
The taking of offence has become ubiquitous in modern life but, argues Richard King, it is democracy that suffers when sensitivity is allowed to gain the upper hand
24 March 2014 12:52 PM
The media column: Recruiting 60,000 user authors shows LinkedIn means business in the publishing world, says co-founder Allen Blue
24 March 2014 12:50 PM
Morgana Robinson is one of my favourite comedians and one of the most acerbic commentators on the inanity of most British popular television.
24 March 2014 12:50 PM
Almost four years after The Times blocked free access to most of its website with a paywall, 70 per cent of the public would “not consider” paying for digital news content, according to YouGov research commissioned by the London Press Club.
17 March 2014 10:40 AM
The media column: You can no longer protect your source like you used to
17 March 2014 10:38 AM
News that Jon Snow had become trapped in a lift created a flurry of interest online last week, only for some disappointed social media users to discover that the stranded victim was the silver-haired bicyclist from Channel 4 News.
17 March 2014 10:37 AM
As one of the most high-profile left-wing figures in Fleet Street, the Daily Mirror’s Kevin Maguire has been all over the news channels of late, following the deaths of Bob Crow and then Tony Benn.
09 March 2014 04:28 PM
The media column: The relaunch of ‘Newsweek’ as a print magazine shows there’s an appetite for long-form journalism
09 March 2014 04:20 PM
Could a BBC Korea Service work?
04 March 2014 04:07 PM
How could something as visual as film end up being most effectively championed by a show that primarily exists in audio, let alone one that goes out on a Friday lunchtime?
04 March 2014 03:57 PM
Television journalists got an insight into their futures with the resourcefulness of Joe Tidy of Sky News after his camera became water-damaged in the floods last month.
02 March 2014 04:38 PM
The media column: Mosaic's launch on Tuesday shows there is space for science coverage
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