Jim Marshall argues that newspapers still retain their potency for reporting and commenting on major news stories, despite those who suggest that newspapers are doomed. But this brings with it a responsibility which has greater significance and accountability in today’s ‘multi layered’ world of media – if newspapers are going to continue to be a gateway medium what they say has to be true.
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Yahoo has made a millionaire out of 17 year-old app developer Nick D’Aloisio with the purchase of his news summary app, Summly – and although Raymond Snoddy says it’s great that news is being made more accessible via mobile devices – it’s a little less good that quality, journalistic content is being turned into convenient bullet points.
The BBC’s descent into ‘tough’ urban programming continued with Tuesday evening bringing even more suffering for the Butcher family, as down-trodden matriarch Bianca decided to shop her son Liam to the fuzz.
New research from BBC Worldwide shows the increase of tablet penetration in households across the globe – however, television still remains a firm first choice when it comes to multi-screening.
The Daily Telegraph is set to launch a metered paywall for its website following a successful trial of the system.
Richard Marks of Research the Media has a confession to make: after years of extolling the benefits of Big Data in audience measurement he must now admit that he was wrong to use those two little words. Here is his apology – as well as a call to action.
With approximately 323 million hours spent accessing online video content each month, the UK population is spending an increasingly large amount of time on the web, with YouTube responsible for the majority of video requests.
The final debate at last week’s Media Playground has perhaps prompted the biggest reaction. Already two Newsline columnists have responded in writing about some of the issues the debate threw up. Here we report on what was one of the liveliest sessions of the day – looking at some of the biggest issues facing media research today.
The return Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, after a four year absence, proved that the pint sized Geordies are still the nation’s favourite light entertainment presenters.
Monday night saw small town crime thriller Broadchurch (ITV, 9pm) continue its confident stride through Monday’s prime time slot as the European-influenced slow-burning drama reached the halfway mark.
