Archive for the times
What to make of the paywall figures from The Times?
PR Week has a piece on today’s figures from The Times and Sunday Times, including this from me: Mark Pack, head of digital at MHP Communications said: ‘In order to make full sense of these figures we need to know how they break down between people making a one-off payment for 24-hour access, people buying [...]
My letter in today's Times
Sir, I am surprised that Boris Johnson believes a strike ballot with less than 50 per cent turnout does not have enough legitimacy to count. After all, his own election was also based on a turnout of less than 50 per cent and he did not decline taking office or waive exercising any of his [...]
Key facts on how The Times pay wall is working
A useful set of statistics about how the pay wall around The Times and The Sunday Times is working out has been pulled together by one of my research whiz colleagues at work, Katrine Birk. Although the published data from News International has been fairly limited so far, there is data that can be extracted [...]
Is the problem that people don’t want to pay for news or don’t want to pay for newspapers?
Each round of newspaper circulation figures makes grim reading for anyone trying to balance the books at a newspaper. Month after month circulation is dropping away across the board. The usual explanation is that newspapers are suffering because so much free news is now available online, and there is certainly a large degree of truth [...]
My campaign highs and lows
On polling day The Times ran this piece from me: Campaign high point: Receiving a phone call out of the blue on a Saturday afternoon from a tabloid journalist normally doesn’t herald good news. But on Saturday 17th April it was someone ringing to check when the Liberal Democrats or their predecessors had last come [...]
A polite round of applause directed towards The Times
I wasn’t expecting that.
The Times has reported its latest opinion poll. It has reported the changes in party share of the vote.
And then Peter Riddell has said,
These shifts are within the margin of error
Why’s that impressive? Because nearly every opinion poll only shows changes within the margin of error (you’ve usually got to look over [...]
How The Times has left me worried I’m hallucinating
Here’s the email I’ve just sent to The Times. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out I’m hallucinating and saw 175 mentions of Christmas where in fact there were none.
I’m really confused.
In your story “Christmas lights switch-on ceremony renamed ‘Winter White Night” (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6915007.ece) you report that, “Christmas will not be Christmas in Dundee this year. All [...]
Media news from Bournemouth – and our media at its very best
A round-up of more media coverage from conference here in Bournemouth:
Nick Clegg faces backlash over weakened pledge on university fees
Richard Dawkins condemns British libel laws
Lib Dems are a ‘radical party of power’ says Nick
Nick Clegg tries to talk his way out of trouble after call for ‘savage’ cuts
David Laws: You Ask The Questions
And finally, something [...]
Bank chiefs should be disqualified – Clegg
Today’s the start of the party’s spring conference, and to mark it Nick Clegg has given an interview to The Times in which he makes this eye-catching proposal:
Directors who were running the banks Northern Rock, HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bradford & Bingley when they were rescued by the taxpayer should be disqualified from [...]
