dead tree press. recycling

There is a case for full disclosure by any public body of any document … which would shed light on the disaster and its aftermath.

April 19, 2009

Andy Burnham was not talking about the disaster in Downing Street, but of the Hillsborough disaster. Today, instead of sitting on a sofa with her husband watching a movie or two, Jacqui Smith was hard at work, trying to garner some good publicity before being grilled tomorrow in the  House of Commons over the bungled [...]

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Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!

March 30, 2009

Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from those in the centre of power outwards to the oppressed masses - the news has started coming inwards to the main stream media; independent bloggers reporting on items of local [...]

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It’s the economy, stupid!

February 9, 2009

The dead tree press has commissioned some of its lawyers and senior editors to take a good hard look at current practice in the media - before the committee set up by the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport starts poking around. Lawyers always like to know what the ‘prosecution’ might discover before the trial. They commissioned [...]

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The Devil’s Pact and the rise of the Deviant Journalist.

January 16, 2009

Jay Rosen, a man who had a brief career as a journalist that he wisely curtailed with a decision to study in depth the far more interesting rise of citizen journalism and blogging, has penned an interesting academic article HERE on a matter dear to the heart of all those who closely follow the McCann saga, indeed all [...]

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The dead tree press and the recycling crisis

January 5, 2009

The market for waste paper has collapsed, so the contractors who expensively collect the paper are being forced to put it into storage. Demand for recycled paper, extensively used by the newspaper industry, has plummeted. The price has dropped from £70 a ton to £10 a ton in the last six weeks. The ‘paper mountain’ is expected [...]

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