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David Wooding vs The Guardian: do you think they're talking about the same story?
David Wooding (Whitehall Editor, The Sun): “News of the world cleared by PCC of hacking into thousands of phones to get stories. The Guardian stories were wrong, it ruled.” The Guardian: “The [PCC] report confirms the central allegation made by the Guardian and has not produced any independent evidence of its own to contradict a [...]
I think Carter-Ruck might be changing this quote, don't you?
Look in the top right corner of the screenshot taken just now from the Carter Ruck website (click on graphic for full size version):
Is The Independent going to become our free national newspaper?
Combine two ingredients: The Guardian Media Group is getting out of providing free (bulk) copies of its newspapers in hotels, airports etc with speculation that they will be followed in this by News International, and The latest ABC figures show the Independent and Independent on Sunday increasingly dependent on bulk copies with their paid-for sales [...]
What business models can newspapers copy to bring in more revenue?
Courtesy of Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he wants to start charging for access to online content from News International’s titles, starting with the Sunday Times, the question of charging for online newspaper content or services is very much in the news. Almost all the discussion, however, has been based on the implicit assumption that the [...]
The future of newspapers as it looked in 1994
Back in December 1994 The Guardian ran a piece on “The tomorrow of newspapers” complete with a mocked up newspaper from December 2004. The picture on the right shows the cover, and click on it to see pictures of the other pages. As you’ll see it is very much a magazine look they were predicting. [...]
What’s the significance of today’s Observer editorial?
The Observer coming out today and urging a vote for the Liberal Democrats will have put a spring in the step of many deliverers, canvassers and poster teams around the country, especially when combined with the news of the Telegraph ICM poll putting the Liberal Democrats in second place.
In the past both the sister papers [...]
Guardian mostly apologises to Jo Swinson
From today’s Corrections and Clarifications column in the Guardian:
A further correction to our graphic surveying the expenses of certain MPs: In the category Cheapest claims, we stated without qualification that cosmetics were included in receipts submitted by Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire (23 May, page 6). Jo Swinson has denied claiming for [...]
