We Name the Editor of The Sun on Sunday
When Rupert Murdoch announced the imminent launch of The Sun on Sunday, he didn’t name the editor. We’re naming him as Dominic Mohan, the editor of The Sun on every other day of the week. It’s not a trick headline (OK it is… a bit), it points out something that’s all to easily missed after...
The Stone Roses – Guardian Readers Bite Back
A function of the social web is that journalism, is fast becoming an interactive form. Most of us of a certain age spotted that The Stone Roses had announced at a press conference they were reforming and our reactions were mainly good, some bad, others indifferent. Step forward one Sam Wolfson a journalist who writes...
Wünderful Stuff from Müller
We don’t often embed ads at PR Media Blog but this is wünderful. From Müller and our friends at TBWA.
Murphy Knocks Out Sky in TV Pub Brawl
A ruling on the activities of a tiny pub near Portsmouth looks set to have huge implications for the market in sports rights in the media. Karen Murphy, the landlady at the Red White and Blue in Southsea used a Greek set-top box to show Premier League matches. They found out and took her to court, because...
Techcrunch Time for Media Future
We’ve often talked about the demise of dead wood and ink (and sometime of its resilience) on this blog. What then of the fortunes of the natural successor to newspapers; online media? TechCrunch along with Mashable has been at the forefront of this evolution. Focusing on technology news it has carved a powerful niche since it was...
Cosmo for Guys Launches with Ipad Head Girl
The relentless march of the digital magazine continued with today’s launch of an iPad male version of Cosmopolitan called CFG: Cosmo For Guys. To herald the launch an imaginative bit of film called Ipad Head Girl dropped on Youtube. The link to the magazine is clear if you stick with the video passed the minute mark....
Is News International still a bit Old Skool?
Within minutes of James Murdoch sounding the death knell on the News of the World, the twittersphere was crackling with the rumour that The Sun would become a seven day a week title. The evidence seemed to stack up when it emerged that someone had registered the domains sunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.co.uk a couple of days...
Why Kelner was ousted at The Independent
There will be those that speculate that Simon Kelner’s ill advised defence of Johann Hari’s questionable journalistic style was behind his demise at the paper he has edited for a dozen years. They’d be wrong. In fact its more likely that Kelner already knew he was leaving when the #interviewbyhari meme struck and by defending Hari he...
