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Posts Tagged ‘jack roberts’

The First Newspaper Domino to Fall? Sunday Sport Publisher in Serious Financial Difficulty

MUM GIVES BIRTH TO 8 POUND TROUT 

LONDON BUS FOUND BURIED AT SOUTH POLE

LORD LUCAN SPOTTED ON MISSING SHERGAR

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 7, 2009 4:29PM | 4 Comments »


Is Andrew Keen a Reformed Doomsayer, or is the New Year’s Hangover Still Raging?

You can’t keep a good curmudgeon down. Andrew Keen, net polemicist, newspaper columnist and author of Cult of the Amateur, kicks off another year

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 5, 2009 2:12PM | 1 Comment »


Cast From Telegraph Starship, Outgoing Literary Ed. Describes Redundancy as Like “Having a Birthday”

Yesterday was my birthday (please send cash, not presents, Dear Readers), so I felt some empathy for poor old Sam Leith, The Daily Telegraph

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 5, 2008 1:58PM | 1 Comment »


German Tabloid Bild to Unleash a Mighty Legion of Citizen Journos With Help From Lidl

Yesterday we posted on how ‘Citizen Journalism’ (CJ), the darling of neophyte media pundits the world over, will receive a shot in…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 4, 2008 3:55PM | 4 Comments »


Felix Dennis Cackles Again, Baits “Multi-platform” Print Rivals On Their Online Ad Failures

Yes, it’s that man again… Last week we told you how Felix Dennis totally played Wall Street private equity hotshots Quadrangle, having

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 3, 2008 2:00PM | 2 Comments »


HuffPost Raises Stacks of Capital, Paving Future for News Media?

The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that The Huffington Post, the liberal news blog/web aggregator the Observer described as ‘the most powerful

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 3, 2008 12:11PM | 2 Comments »



Peaches Geldof To Redefine the World of Independent Publishing With Fake-Real Mag

Last week we reported on how New York’s media class was laughing long and hard at train wreck It-girl Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 1, 2008 3:21PM | 6 Comments »


Simon Heffer Attacks Telegraph Staff Over Poor Speling

Life as a Telegraph staffer isn’t exactly a bundle of joy right now. Let’s recap: after more than two years of overly drawn out bloodletting, Will

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 28, 2008 8:11PM | 1 Comment »


ITV Succumbs to Google “Parasites,” In Denial About Imminent Lobotomy

Oh dear. The UK’s biggest commercial TV station today bowed to the inevitable, and announced a deal with Google that will

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 28, 2008 5:22PM | 2 Comments »


Felix Dennis Cackles, Having Sold Private Equity Goons Quadrangle a US $250 Million Hospital Pass

The Bearded Dwarf rides again. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Alpha Media, the publisher of Maxim and music magazine Blender,

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 25, 2008 12:08PM | 8 Comments »


Bob Geldof Mocked From Margate to Melbourne, as New York Roasts Peaches

The Geldof family appear to be shifting into self-immolating transcontinental hyper-drive.

After causing civic offence by describing Margate as “

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 21, 2008 3:05PM | 6 Comments »