Tag: Guardian

  • The Mail on Sunday’s Basic Instinct & A Twitter Takeover

    The Mail on Sunday’s Basic Instinct & A Twitter Takeover

    The Mail On Sunday doubles down on their Angela Rayner/Basic Instinct story, sparking widespread condemnation. How has this incident gone down in the lobby pool that attends Westminster every week? Former political correspondent Jim Waterson tells us about life as a lobby hack. A second sexism story has sparked conversations in the industry, as ex-Radio…

  • The Price of BBC Cuts & Tortoise Turning 3

    The Price of BBC Cuts & Tortoise Turning 3

    Are the problems at the BBC’s We Are England strand the sign of things to come? The Guardian’s Jim Waterson explains. As the newsroom startup raises another £10m, the co-founder of Tortoise, James Harding talks to Matt Deegan about slow news, startups and paid memberships. Elsewhere, Paramount Plus is coming – how does it fit…

  • Episode 90: Guardian Changing Media Summit 2018

    <![CDATA[Olly Mann is joined by delegates at the Guardian's Changing Media Summit in London to discuss some of the key trends in international media, as well as covering the big media stories of the week. On the programme: Sam Baker (The Pool) and Matt Kelly (The New European) discuss the role of a partisan press…

  • Episode 89: HomePod gripes, Sky News pledge & Twitter TV

    <!–[CDATA[Media insight and analysis, with Olly Mann and guests Paul Robinson and Nastaran Tavakolifar. The panel discuss the Guardian's new interactive storytelling for audio, as well as Twitter bringing a new approach to live video. Also on the programme: Murdoch commits to Sky News for another decade, the BBC brings in the big guns to…

  • Episode 83 – Katz Does Countdown

    <![CDATA[Iain Katz leaves Newsnight to take on the top job at Channel 4, former controller Jay Hunt announces she’s off to work for Apple… with careers spanning print to tv to online, what do these appointments say about the way the media is changing? Media writer Maggie Brown and Metro.co.uk's deputy editor Alex Hudson discuss.…

  • Episode 81 – Google caves over paywalls, ITV vs Newsnight

    <![CDATA[Media news and analysis, this week with Jake Kanter (Business Insider UK) and Rebecca Gillie (The Week Online). Google back down over their ‘first click free’ policy, taking pressure off news sites like the FT and The Times – our panel explain all. Plus, who will be the next head of Channel 4? Was Nick…

  • Episode 78 – Facebook Watch, The Week Junior & podcast poaching

    <![CDATA[As Facebook launches a new video service, we ask if this heralds the return of *actual sound* to online video production. Media news and analysis, with broadcaster Olly Mann, Louise Ridley (Buzzfeed) and Matt Deegan (Folder Media). Felicity Capon, deputy editor of The Week Junior, talks to us about the success of the magazine, two…

  • BONUS: Fake News and the Fallout

    <![CDATA[This week, we present a recent debate hosted by the Edinburgh International Television Festival in partnership with ITN (you can find the full video here). Jon Snow (Channel 4 News) welcomes a panel of experts to discuss the most pressing issue of our time: fake news. Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources and their…

  • Episode 59 – Badly burnt by Bake Off

    <![CDATA[With the key talent divided and the audience in shock we ask… has anyone come out of the Bake Off fiasco well – apart from the freshly-moneyed Love Productions? Jake Kanter (Business Insider) sits in for Olly with guests Ash Atalla (Roughcut TV) and Tara Conlan (The Guardian) to discuss the week’s top media stories.…

  • Episode 56: Olympics Coverage & A French Ban On Naming Mass Killers

    <![CDATA[Olly Mann is joined by Jake Kanter (media editor, Business Insider) and radio exec Trevor Dann to discuss the lack of journalists covering Rio 2016, the latest radio ratings and why the French press are refusing to name terrorists. Elsewhere in the podcast, the panel ponder why there’ll be a lull in TV drama next year,…

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