Tag Archives: New York Times

The New York Times has had many fine hours in its long life but one of its finest may turn out to be its crusade (can you say crusade these days?) for truth in the social media-driven era of fake ...

The New York Times is continuing its war on fake news – that provided by governments – with a new Droga5 film detailing the obstacles its reporter faced in Myanmar, investigating the suspected ethnic cleansing of the Royhingya Muslim minority. ...

President Trump is no fan of the established US media (apart from Fox News), especially the likes of the New York Times which he blames for “fake news,” in a typically Trumpian inversion. Doubt that he’ll be approaching Droga5, the ...

Should we be surprised that newspapers – in the case one of the world’s most famous the Washington Post – have become rich men’s trophy assets? The $250m sale by the Graham family of the venerable title to Amazon founder ...

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters ...

Time was when there was a middle market in UK newspapers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express fighting over the millions of aspiring middle class readers who wouldn’t be seen dead buying the Sun or the Mirror, and didn’t have ...

The Daily Telegraph group made £58.9m profit in 2010, 11 per cent up on 2009, nearly 50 per cent if you strip out one-off sales in 2009 of £13m. The surprisingly buoyant figure seems to testify more to cost-cutting than ...

They seem to be a lively lot, past and present, at the agencies now owned by Toronto outfit MDC. A short time ago we had fabled creative director Alex Bogusky (the self-styled ‘creative insurgent’) leaving the business to go and ...

Or so the BBC (and the Financial Times and New York Times) seem to think. Top investment bank Goldman Sachs (the global economy’s version of Paddy Power) has stuck a load of its own money into Facebook stock (or options) ...