Will More Media Bring More Creative Opportunities
The question is worth asking because hundreds of thousands of people work in creative industries and millions more wish they could. Understanding creative urges will help us understand where niche media is headed.
Creativity has to be about difficult truths.
A few days back I sat with Julian Castagna, winemaker. Julian used to shoot adverts for TV. [...]
What Kind of Blog is This?
To explore further where the media industry is going I started this blog. I work in the media industry. I’m not convinced that mainstream media does the good job it claims to. In fact my own experience of it has been a story of moral compromise. I only came back into journalism and TV [...]
About the Dying Days of Old Media
I wanted to come back to that debate about standards and about vested interests. Old media is dying out for a simple reason. No, not necessarily because blogs are great and technology is outpacing all of us. The reason is about a decade ago old media organisations stopped paying media professionals a living wage.
It is [...]
Blogging for Who?
So a few words about who this blog is aimed at. It will evolve but my first priority is to understand changes in the visual media as they effect people like me, a journalist who needs to make a living from writing but who also believes that the public debate, the dialogue, is stronger than [...]
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