The Death of the Channel

Reports from the media meas­ure­ment company Nielsen have dropped one of the features with which the company is arguably most asso­ci­ated: the idea of a tele­vi­sion ‘channel’.

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My Week in Media

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…

Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly

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Trust Me, I’m a Journalist

Reminiscent of this post, comes a reminder from LexisNexis that tra­di­tional media are much more highly trusted than any of us lot. However, it appears that the US is less trusting of its media — old and new — than the UK. Are we brits more gullible than the US, or is American media

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More Everything

A report at FT.com sums up a recent survey by Jupiter Research. The amount of time devoted by Europeans to web use has, for the first time, over­taken the time they spend reading news­pa­pers and magazines:

Print con­sump­tion has remained static at three hours a week in the past two years, as time spent online

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