Thoughts of Nigel

I recently took part in Manchester Open City afternoon. The project involved photographers walking around Manchester capturing images that g...

It is difficult to understand the motivation behind Israel's attack on the aid flotilla this morning. For those that haven't heard t...

This blog started back in the autumn of 2006.It was really a way of keeping up with the media news and gossip as I began my journalism degre...

One of the concerns of Linkedin must surely be the easy collection of data and contacts for someone to steal . As the register reports An e...

Now here is a heartening news story about regional titles going hyperlocal. It comes from Poland courtesy of Editors weblog and the village...

Pew's annual state of the media report was released yesterday and once again for followers of media statistics it doesn't make part...

Quite unbelievable that the Daily Express has reverted to having a Diana story on its front pages. Quoting the results of a new book,the pa...

According to an exclusive in the Times this morning,Labour wants to promise five guarantees in its manifesto aimed at winning over a sceptic...

I,ve met Joseph Stashko a couple of times now. He is a student at Uclan who along with his colleague Andy Halls is working on a new hyperlo...

Reuter's new handbook warns journalists not to be over reliant on social media for news gathering purposes. Its latest guidelines warn ...

The big digital news of the day is the launch of the Conservative manifesto on technology which aims to make the British government the most...

RTL may be satisfied with its results but the news that it has halfed the value of Channel 5 television in its blance sheet will raise worri...

This morning's Daily Express takes a pot shot at the Welsh broadcaster S4C. A WELSH language television channel funded with £100million...

The latest results are out this morning for Johnston Press. The regional newspaper publisher has reported that operating profit fell to £71....

Many of the papers report on the case of how a father was allowed to continually rape and abuse two of his daughters over a 35-year period. ...

“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the internet." That's the opionion of Google's chie...

The fallout from the Ashleigh Hall murder case is continuing this morning.As mentioned in the previous article, the Mail leads with the sto...

Facebook is getting a fair amount of crititism led by the Daily Mail this morning which reports that Facebook was accused last night of put...

Rupert Murdoch's attention has now turned int seems to the Middle East as today he launched an attack on the unliberal attitudes of the ...

A local authority in the north-east of Scotland has become the first local authority in Scotland to publicise details of who is making Freed...

News of a great new initiative from the Liverpool Daily Post in the run up to the general election. It has launched Liverpool Party Central ...

Praise indeed for the Southport Visiter which has stepped in to provide a temporary home for the town's Library. Hold the front page r...

This morning's FT carries news of one of the latest surveys of advertising spend from America which predicts that US online advertising ...

Mothers betrayed says the headline in the Sun as it refers to the latest on the Jon Venables story and yesterday's news that a convicted...

More conjecture on what will happen to the BBC if the Tories win the next election comes from this mornings Indy. Media editor Ian Burrell i...

In the current online-only business model, true investigative journalism is unsustainable. That's according to The Business Insider who...

Allegations in the papers this morning that the MOD is planning a gag on the media reporting bad news from Afghanistan ahead of the general ...

The Independent leads with the story that Labour has been accused of rushing through huge contracts before the election to safeguard the pa...

According to the Sunday Times ,damning reports on the state of the NHS, suppressed by the government, will reveal a neglect of patients’ nee...

Yesterday's wrap around cover for the LA Times certainly came close to the boundaries of what is advertsising. It featured the face of J...

Gordon Brown's appearence before the Chilcott committee is the main subject for some of the papers. The Times claims that Former command...

Results out this morning for Trinity Mirror confirm the continued impact of the advertising downturn on local papers. Reporting its 2009 pr...

Quite an unexpected cricketing coup for ITV. The Independent station has just announced that it has picked up the rights to the IPL and ITV4...

When i first started this blog around the end of 2006,so many of the tags were to do with citizen journalism and user generated content. The...

An interesting prespective over at Media Shift which asks if journalist's photos from Haiti are an invasion of Privacy. Michelle May ,wh...

Lord Ashcroft,what did Jon Venables do, and the death of Michael Foot are the main themes this morning. According to the Telegraph ,Jack Str...

Hyperlocal is the thing now and for the past couple of months,myself and fellow Manchester journalist Louise Bolotin have been working on t...

One of the killers of James Bulger is back in prison and the tabloids this morning cover the story intensely. Jon Venables, now 27, was lock...

So the news is out. The BBC's Mark Thompson has announced plans to scale back its £3.5bn a year operations,pledging to the public that t...

A survey of of magazine web sites by the Columbia Journalism Review has shown that there are varying standards between the print and online...

Since the dawn of reporting,journalists have come under scrutiny for how much of their copy is fact or fiction. Today's Independent loo...