An ambitious challenge if ever there was one. I set myself the task of re-creating the BBC News Web site.
My first point would be that I don’t want to create something that is completely different. I just wanted to do something that, had I been asked to re-create the site, would make an impression.
The BBC [...]
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BBC News Web Site: How I’d Have Done It…
YOUR NEWS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE
I don’t know if you are familiar with the Your News strand on BBC News. It is a magazine-style, twenty-minute-or-so-long programme designed to showcase some of the more interesting stories sent in to the BBC via the Web and the phone. Each week the presenters are sent to a city in the UK and report [...]
MURDOCH’S RULE: SKY NEWS VS. FOX NEWS
Our favourite Aussie granddad Rupert Murdoch has told a House of Lords Communications committee review that Sky News could be more popular if it emulated its American counterpart Fox News a bit more.
Most people are aware that a rule exists for UK news broadcasters regarding impartiality. Broadcast news must remain so, meaning political bias is [...]
Death of the Free Web
French President Nicolas Sarkozy today announced the formation of a new Anti-Piracy body, designed to combat the illegal sharing of media content on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in the country. This isn’t a surprise; the French government has been brokering a deal with the country’s media companies over the past months with the aim of tackling [...]