Video-Audio
Posts about video and audio
Radio broadcasters face digital dogfight with internet
Radio has always confused media futurologists and defied the sceptics. The sound-only medium survived the conquest of TV…
Is this little Swiss company the future of newspapers?
What’s wrong with newspapers? We could spend the next year struggling to answer the question, while traipsing through…
Rupert Murdoch in London and on the edge
The hype runs deep. But Wednesday and Thursday this week really could become the most humbling days of…
Murdoch ‘swan song’ as natives threaten trad media
As the UK’s chatterers await the launch this weekend of The Sun on Sunday, be prepared for a…
James Packer wins casino bets – and heads back to media?
James Packer is the most famous man in Australia. He’s the 44-year-old businessman whom Aussies variously admire, despise,…
Will Abu Dhabi be a media capital – or end up in flames?
Abu Dhabi is a country on a mission. To become the oil state that built itself a real,…
Stand by for (gulp) the post-Murdoch media world
It’s time to use the past tense. Rupert Murdoch was the original international media mogul. Before him, there…
UK readers will miss Rupert Murdoch (honestly)
As predicted here and variously across the planet, Rupert Murdoch is in the fight of his life with…
The power and vulnerability of Rupert Murdoch
This has been a big, bumpy month for the Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corporation, marked by: UK Government approval…
Gina Rinehart may soon be world’s richest person – and is into media
Australians frequently refer to their nation’s “two speed” economy, which emphasises the commodities boom that has kept recession…