January 2010
41 posts
Why 3am.co.uk won't be covering Peter Andre's... →
3am (Daily Mirror) making CAN Associates - that’s Peter Andre’s management - look a little bit foolish.
BBC World Service: When mobile internet phones... →
“We’ll thrive without NewsNow. The question is, will they thrive without us...”
– Matt Kelly, Digital Content Director at Mirror Group
BBC News - Daily Mirror blocks NewsNow aggregator
“The abuse of taxpayers’ money to peddle council propaganda dressed up as...”
– Report into council-run papers is ‘a waste of time’, says Trinity Mirror chief | Media | guardian.co.uk
5 Ways to improve your writing and concentration -... →
Experts stunned by swan 'divorce' at Slimbridge... →
I’d love to know what Karl Pilkington makes of this.
WatchWorld’s most deadly place for reporters - BBC World Service
Health Care Conversations - NYTimes.com →
The New York Times has done it again. With quality, unique content like this, I don’t think they have anything to worry about with that pay wall. It will succeed.
BBC News - Teacher smashes throw-in record →
M62 Farm →
Have you ever driven up the M62 and seen a little farm dumped in the middle of its six lanes? Neat slideshow about how it came to be…
“BBC World Service will be broadcasting special lifeline programming for...”
– BBC - Press Office - BBC World Service broadcasts special lifeline programming for Haiti
“For the first time since 1966, there will be no official song to mark...”
– BBC News - ‘No World Cup song’, FA confirms
BBC 'must end obsession with targeting under-35s'... →
This stuff winds me up. ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’ is just harmless fun - and quite entertaining. If anyone touches ‘Pod’ I’m going after them.
Floor collapses at Weight Watchers meeting - Times... →
Shouldn’t laugh…
BBC Sport - Football - Ivory Coast 0-0 Burkina... →
My first match report for the BBC. An important moment for me!
BBC News - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile... →
I think the CEO handles it extremely well…!
“As most of you may know, in October I lost my mum to an awful and very rare...”
– Sadie Geoghegan is fundraising for Autonomic Disorders Association Sarah Matheson Trust (ADASMT) - JustGiving
(You really should sponsor my friend. Every penny really appreciated. G’wan!)
“Enough already. Bad news, bad news, bad news - is that all that you can report?...”
– BBC - Over To You: Whatever the future, it’s still about getting it right
Does he have a point?
“Final ball of the match: LEFT ALONE! LEFT ALONE! ENGLAND WIN THE DRAW - REPEAT,...”
– BBC Sport - Cricket - Live - South Africa v England
Olympic Park to get a 'Henman Hill' - but what to... →
The London organisers want to create a festival atmosphere in the park through public spaces with screens televising the events.
And they are hoping that a landscaped hill next to the stadium will be the life and soul of the party.
The question that this raises is what will this vantage point be called? Of course, it all depends on who becomes the talking point of the London games.
At the...
“The BBC Trust is to conduct a review to assess the accuracy and impartiality of...”
– BBC Trust to review corporation’s science coverage - Press Gazette
“There is room - in fact, a desperate need - for an online, heavyweight...”
– If I were in Scotland I’d be in this guys office tomorrow morning asking for a job.
In fact, I’m pretty tempted to anyway. I wish him every luck in the world.
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ITV prepares to enter The Crystal Maze |... →
“Start the fans, please!” Yup, we have had everything else back on our screens, now the Sun reports that the 1990s gameshow staple The Crystal Maze is to return.
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the...”
– BBC News - BeautifulPeople.com axes holiday weight gain members
“The Guardian understands it concludes the licence fee generates £7.2bn for the...”
– The BBC fires back: report argues that corporation generates £7.6bn for Britain | Media | The Guardian
“Everyone’s been chipping in by doing the washing up, peeling potatoes,...”
– Paul Manson, stranded in the Tan Hill Inn on New Year’s Eve.
BBC News - Guests snowed in for New Year at UK’s highest pub 