Inside Media
Newsflash: it's time to face up to disfigurement
Five's lunchtime bulletin is to radically test prejudices about the looks of newsreaders, reports Ian Burrell
Matthew Norman: Online can be a bamboozling term
Reflecting on a week of unrelenting excitement even by his standards, an indelicate question poses itself about Rupert Murdoch. Is the old boy finally losing it?
The Feral Beast: If you can't stand the heat...
So much for the sisterhood. The Observer's outgoing political editor, Gaby Hinsliff (right) has been roundly condemned by colleagues after signing off with a 4,000-word piece about how the job ruined her family life. "I was very saddened by this," sniffed Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley on a podcast, "she has basically quit because she can't manage it." "I wasn't totally sympathetic to the thrust of the piece," chimed Obs columnist Catherine Bennett. "Lots of other jobs are infinitely harder to juggle than journalism." As Gaby may now discover.
Sky provokes backlash after iPhone viewing offer
BSkyB said last night it was not worried that its new Sky Mobile TV service for iPhones, where all Sky's sport content is now available for an all-time low price of £6 per month, will cannabilise sales of its core product – pay-TV sport – and damage its business model.
On Advertising: Morrisons grows into seasoned TV campaigner
Morrisons does not make great ads. Oh no. And I think we should be clear about that from the start. This supermarket chain makes cheesy ads with second-rate celebrities and third-rate scripts. I like their breezy cheeriness, but they won't win any gongs for creativity.
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