Published on July 15, 2011 · 11:52 am UK
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The announcement this morning that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned provoked near-universal applause on Twitter, from what I could see in my content stream. It was also reported in mainstream media around the world, illustrating quite clearly how significant this is beyond the UK. This and related events today look like the result [...]
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Published on July 13, 2011 · 6:21 pm UK
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Last week, the focus was on the News of The World and phone hacking, culminating in the newspaper’s final edition on Sunday July 10. This week, attention has shifted dramatically as events have moved up level by level to embrace the ultimate owner of the British newspaper, News Corporation, in a genuine crisis that could [...]
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Published on July 10, 2011 · 6:41 pm UK
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I’ve been reading through the News of The World today. It’s the first time I’ve ever bought this newspaper – and the last time, too, as this was its last edition. The closure that concludes 168 years of newspaper publishing is a sorry end to a popular tabloid that consistently served up the type of [...]
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Published on July 7, 2011 · 6:06 pm UK
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in Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Society, Web, Workplace
It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the News of The World (NoTW). After 168 years of publishing, this Sunday, July 10, is [...]
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Published on May 22, 2011 · 8:36 am UK
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in Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Politics, Social Media, Society, Technology, Trends, Twitter, Web
A story that has been headline news in the UK’s mainstream media every day for the past week is that concerning a Premier League footballer who’s suing Twitter in a legal challenge. [Events have moved significantly since this post was published - updated information at the end of the post.] The court proceedings, launched in [...]
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Much of the UK went to the polls today in a mix of national and local elections. Elections for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly are being held, as are polls in 279 English councils. And there is the national referendum on the so-called Alternative Vote system where voters will [...]
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I didn’t listen to Today on BBC Radio 4 last Wednesday and hear Mark Borkowski’s reported comment that the Alternative Vote (AV), on which we have a referendum on May 5, has created "a great yawn across the nation." Yet that reported comment sums it all up for me. Another leaflet came through the letterbox [...]
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Politicians in Canada are embracers of social media, it seems, and now they’re being actively encouraged to use social channels from within parliament. According to a report by Journalism.co.uk, the Canadian House of Commons has issued MPs with Blackberrys and encouraged them to tweet and post messages on Facebook during their parliamentary work: According to [...]
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After nearly three weeks of protest in Cairo and other cities across Egypt, the end came quite quickly on Friday night so that, today, the country no longer has Hosni Mubarak running things and instead has the military in charge, at least for the time being. The BBC has a pretty good analysis that makes [...]
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Published on February 6, 2011 · 6:03 pm UK
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in Communication, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Politics, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Twitter, Web
The role social media has played in the unrest in Egypt that has occupied our TV screens for weeks is a subject of many opinions. What’s pretty clear if you pay attention to Facebook and Twitter is that communication channels like these have played a significant role in enabling people to connect with others, whatever [...]
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