Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

During the recent UK elections, The Guardian took to using a rolling-blog style of article to keep readers up-to-date with all the latest news around the campaign: in the frantic days during which the Tory/Lib Dem coalition came into being, they felt (I assume) that this was the best way for them to present this [...]

If you read the media pages in any of the broadsheet papers you’ll undoubtedly read about the dire straits many local media groups find themselves in. They’re dropping like flies in the US and they’re not doing much better over here. Generally the causes listed for this situation are the internet, whether it be Craigs [...]

The Guardian: The Scrooge Of SEO?

I am, as anyone who knows me would tell you, a massive fan of The Guardian. I get the paper delivered every Saturday (as well as The Observer, its sister paper, every Sunday). I have its Tech section set-as my homepage on my laptop at work as well as on my Mac & PC at [...]

Via Stephen comes this “so true it’s scary” guide to Daily Express journalism from b3ta.

I was idly browsing this afternoon and ended up on NME. Looking at the site of a magazine that, as a teenager, I bought religiously, made me think of a magazine I bought religiously for much of my 20s. The magazine in question was The Face, the genre-defining style magazine launched by Nick Logan in [...]


Obviously everything on this site is the opinion of me, Ciarán Norris, and no-one else, including my employers and anyone else I know. I guess that it's probably obvious, but thought I should probably make it explicit. Anyway, enjoy!