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• 01.21.09
  OfCom want to pin three familiar medals on Channel Four’s chest – news, local and digital. Which kind of gets us all thinking… General, Journalism | (2)

  As a tiny green shoot poking up in the shadow of some mighty - albeit swaying - broadcasting oaks, I'm always slightly fearful of wandering into the great 'top-slice' debate. Not exactly my 'patch'. But having once upon a time been shared a dinner table with OfCom at an invite-only do last summer and having now - once - walked the corridors of Horseferry Road on the back of our oh-so welcome 4iP gig, how OfCom, Channel Four and the future of the nation's PSB platforms is still of interest. And we have touched on it before; as I tried to explain ...

  Tagged: 4iP, Channel Four, Newspaper Society, OfCom
  
• 12.05.08
  A warm Friday afternoon welcome to ‘backchat’ – or rather the #NCFC version. A 4iP-funded project suddenly made web flesh… General, Journalism | (10)

  I'm not one for drum rolls; nor after the summer and autumn that we've had, am I much in the mood for popping champagne corks everywhere. A quiet pint in the White Horse in Chedgrave will have to suffice. But, there we go... a 4iP-funded project out of the door and sat there on www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity It's the one that says 'Powered by backchat'; the rolling conversation feed with pictures of our punters; and, me, no more than the badged-up steward in the crowd; with my MFW logo pinned to my jacket; keeping the conversation queue moving along... We are, Jamie tells me, the ...

  Tagged: 4iP, backchat, Channel Four, David Cushman, Emily Bell
  
• 11.12.08
  Lost no longer? That maybe our future lies as the bastard child of old media journalist and new media blogger. A jogger, in short. General, Journalism | (0)

  For reasons that may well become apparent over the next couple of weeks, we've started to put a lot of thought and effort into this idea that the future of journalism might have something to do with the art of stimulating and sustaining a conversation. We've been round this block before; as have others - we've even proposed an idea that, say, Channel Four could become this 'House Of Many Conversations'... if we could only just give all those passionate niche communities that gather around www.channel4.com/lost a 'voice'... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=166 It's actually quite interesting poking our nose round that little Lost community - they ...

  Tagged: Channel Four, Lost
  
• 06.25.08
  Not sure which is better viewing – BBC versus Channel Four over the missing millions or the Newspaper Society versus the BBC over their threat to the ‘plurality’ of news General, Journalism | (2)

  This is always well worth watching - the Newspaper Society versus the BBC. Almost as good as Channel Four versus the BBC over where are they going to get their missing £150 mill from... from BBC Worldwide, says Channel Four, that's a nice little earner... Yes, it is. Get your grubby mits off, says the BBC. Besides, you sure you actually need this £150 mill? Couldn't you make a few more savings instead, says the lean, mean fighting machine that is the BBC... OK, OK... how about we give you a few of our local news clips. And that little desk in the corner ...

  Tagged: BBC, Channel Four, Johnston Press, Newspaper Society, TrinityMirror
  

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