This is the final part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. You can also read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five. A full PDF is available here. Now, this lecture said that I would sketch out the two paths that I see journalism taking in the next decade – so here they are:
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This is the fourth part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. You can find part one here, part two here, and part three here. Human capital So here’s person number 4: Gary Becker, a Nobel prize-winning economist. Fifty years ago he used the phrase ‘human capital’ to refer to the economic value that companies
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This is the third part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. You can find part one here, and part two here. The production line has been replaced by a network The problem is that most media organisations still think they are manufacturing cars, and they still see journalists as part of an internal production
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This is the second part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. The first part can be found here. Cars, roads and picnics Throughout the 20th century there were two ways of getting big things done – and a third way of getting small things done. Clay Shirky sums these up very succinctly in terms
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The following is the first part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. The total runs to 3,000 words so I’ve split it and adapted it for online reading. The myth of journalism and the telegraph Samuel Morse was a portrait painter. And he invented the telegraph. The telegraph is probably one of the most
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I’ll be presenting my inaugural lecture at City University on March 3 – the title is “Is ice cream strawberry? Journalism’s invisible history – and conflicted future” For once the decision on what to speak on was entirely up to me, hence the cryptic title (the original title was ‘I’m Not Going To Talk About Technology’). It’s quite a wide-ranging
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