Ian Burrell



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Full name: Ian Burrell (not to be confused with Ian Birrell, also of The Independent)

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 * Google hopes to wow us with a new HQ but it may take more than that - The “Googleplex” site makes deliberate attempts at every turn to reinforce a corporate culture - 4th November 2013
 * Not listening to the latest fad keeps this Mojo working - There’s probably only one media brand in the world that could get the famously private Kate Bush to fetch down her sketching equipment and produce a hand-drawn illustration in its honour. And that’s Mojo. - 28th October 2013
 * Newspaper tablets apps were the future. But the future still hasn’t arrived - Are the pay wall and the tablet really finding general consumer acceptance? - 21st October 2013
 * A truce between the Guardian and Daily Mail? Misery does aquaint men with strange bed fellows - But meanwhile scuffles elsewhere on Fleet Street continue in full flow - 14th October 2013
 * The real reason it’s open season on ‘The Guardian’ - The charge against The Guardian is treason - 12th October 2013
 * The BBC needs to produce some good news for licence-fee payers - An imminent report by the Public Accounts Committee is certain to excoriate both the BBC’s management and its governing BBC Trust over the flawed handling of payoffs - 7th October 2013
 * For the sake of British newspapers, editors must step into the limelight - Newspaper bossess would benefit from revealing more of themselves to the public - 30th September 2013
 * Lloyd Embley wants us all to know why the Daily Mirror is not like the others. Seriously - If readers of the Daily Mirror spluttered over their maize-based breakfast cereals as they turned to page three this morning, then the editor-in-chief Lloyd Embley will have done his job - 23rd September 2013
 * British TV looks into the future and gets ready to bang its own drum - The tectonic changes will be around the migration of viewers to mobile and broadband - 9th September 2013
 * BBC journalists cheered the news that the ‘wicked witch’ Lucy Adams is to go, but the DG won’t - When journalists take their leave of a newspaper it is customary for colleagues to honour their service by striking their desks, replicating the “banging out” procedure of Fleet Street printers in the hot metal era - 2nd September 2013
 * For every gain women make in this industry, there’s a setback - The main reason that a sense of a glass ceiling persists is that there has still not been a female director-general of the BBC - 26th August 2013
 * Will selling to Murdoch ruin Vice's credibility? - Rupert Murdoch has nothing to lose here. Only time will tell whether the Vice brand is damaged by being connected to a reactionary network like Fox News - 20th August 2013
 * This revolution will be televised, and it's starting in Grimsby - Aside from giving its name to a little-known track on the 1974 Elton John album Caribou and being an austere setting for the film This Is England, Grimsby has had an inauspicious role in the evolution of British media - 19th August 2013
 * Newsnight versus Channel 4 News – the stakes just got higher - Both programmes fish in similar journalistic waters. The competition between them is keen – probably more so than between the BBC and ITV 10pm bulletins, even though those air at the same time - 12th August 2013
 * Jeff Bezos's purchase of The Washington Post is a vote of confidence for the newspaper business - No one could say that Bezos has no grasp of the digital future and, in that sense, he is a great champion for one of the world’s great news brands - 7th August 2013
 * Channel 4 is still waiting for its creative renewal - Except for catching some of the highlights of the Ashes, I can’t remember the last time I watched anything on Channel 5. So it pains me to see Richard Desmond’s unashamedly populist network ridiculing a British cultural institution like Channel 4 - 5th August 2013
 * See the picture, buy the boots: the Mail’s new revenue stream - When Lady Gaga thrust her spike-heeled Azzedine Alaia boots out of the window of a New York limousine one day earlier this month she was unknowingly contributing to a quiet revolution that could transform the financial prospects of the news media - 29th July 2013
 * Brave new world ends an Orwellian view of political press bias - Earlier this year I was sitting in Alastair Campbell’s kitchen, asking Tony Blair’s old attack dog what the past decade had taught us about the Dr David Kelly tragedy, when he launched into a tirade about the political imbalance in the British media - 22nd July 2013
 * The beat goes on, but the city of Detroit might not - Home to some of the most celebrated music of the past sixty years, Motor City has filed for bankruptcy - 20th July 2013
 * Thanks to Saatchi, Trinity Mirror’s ‘Sunday People’ has new bounce - Sue Douglas, publishing director, is convinced there remains demand for racy Sunday content - 15th July 2013
 * It's time for the BBC to give independent radio a break - In television, the indies are the lifeblood of the creative process. But that’s simply not the case in radio - 8th July 2013
 * Murdoch tries to wipe the slate clean – but this is just not the time - September’s trials of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson will be 'a gripping soap opera' - 1st July 2013
 * Feeling chillaxed? Cameron's media man may not be after Ibiza holiday -Craig Oliver doesn't seem to acknowledge that the press heavily influences the TV news agenda - 10th June 2013
 * Old talk show hosts never retire, they just move to Russian TV - just like Larry King - When Larry King announced "it's time to hang up my nightly suspenders" we really shouldn't have believed him. Three years after emotionally leaving CNN he has shocked America by signing up for the Kremlin-backed broadcaster Russia Today (RT) - 3rd June 2013
 * The Woolwich story broke quickly – but the press managed to keep it together - Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Britain's most senior police officer, stood up in front of a room full of many of the most powerful figures in the British press last Wednesday and delivered a serious message - 27th May 2013
 * YouTube's global reach is making it a powerful rival to TV - Smart TV sets mean YouTube is no longer confined to computers and mobile devices - 20th May 2013
 * A question of sport in the British pay television market - BT’s bravado has stung Sky, which sees itself as a dedicated – and unrivalled – investor in British sports - 13th May 2013
 * The only transparency at the BBC is in the Pit - The BBC, we learned last week, was an organisation crawling with more sexual predators than we had previously thought. It was also, said an official report, a place gripped by an "undercurrent of fear", where bullied staff were afraid to speak out because they did not trust their managers - 6th May 2013
 * Fleet Street still needs a champion to win its war of independence - Since the Leveson inquiry was announced, the press has lacked a credible figurehead - 29th April 2013
 * The rise of Asian radio - Three years ago, the BBC's Asian Network was on the brink of closure. What saved it? - 22nd April 2013
 * TV channels and social media fill news vacuum with fevered rumours - In the frantic race to be the first to identify the Boston bomber, the reputations of some of America's best-known news organisations have suffered a damaging blow - 19th April 2013
 * By embracing feminism, the New Statesman beat its old rival - The growth of the site has raised the profile of the magazine, rather than undermined its appeal - 8th April 2013
 * 2013 is a tipping point for online news, as Britain's paywalls go up - The mood has changed. Across the Atlantic, many publishers have adopted a new stance - 1st April 2013
 * The local papers that now live in fear of 'horrific bureaucracy' - The hurt likely to be suffered by titles ranging from local weeklies, such as the Northampton Chronicle, to the homeless magazine The Big Issue and the children's paper First News, will not engender the same public sympathy as the personal sufferings of hacking victims but it could have critical consequences all the same - 25th March
 * Fearless Eddie Mair skewers Boris in display that could make him a star - The Mayor of London usually escapes tough questioning with his buffoonery - 24th March 2013
 * Leveson's sheriffs will have no jurisdiction in the web's Wild West - Many blogs exist in the shadows of anonymity, where political agendas can easily be disguised - 18th March 2013
 * Lesson of the 'Mirror' is... lose your identity, and readers will go too - On stage at the British Press Awards last Thursday, Lady Cudlipp shed a tear of joy in memory of her husband, Hugh, and the Daily Mirror he ran with such distinction for so long - 11th March 2013
 * Is Channel 4 a sinking ship – or is it just in need of a shake-up? - It has lost goodwill in the independent production sector, the lifeblood of its creative ideas for decades - 4th March 2013
 * Popular to pariah... how Lord Puttnam killed the historic Defamation Bill - The Defamation Bill faces being thrown onto the scrapheap – because of one man - 25th February 2013
 * Magazines must embrace their digital future – or disappear - Newsstand sales of magazines in America have fallen by around 25 million in a decade - 18th February 2013
 * A whole new scandal that could damage The Sun - With these latest arrests Scotland Yard has opened up a whole new flank in its hacking inquiry - 14th February 2013
 * Local TV with no place for Alan Partridge - It’s extraordinary that for its global profile London doesn’t have a bespoke television network - 11th February 2013
 * Hall's task is to build bridges inside and outside the BBC - When Tony Hall sets foot inside the BBC again next month he will set in train a fundamental cultural shift in the organisation - 4th February 2013
 * Rupert Murdoch's Twitter slap-down has big implications - and not just for News Corp editors - The Middle East is already one of the most difficult territories to cover. This well-publicised intervention won't make it any easier - 30th January 2013
 * Bill's new mission: to show the world the force for good that is a free press - Hands-on skills training comes from a pool of 200 British media experts - 28th January 2013
 * Even Whitehouse would struggle to characterise TV today as filth - Today’s telly scandals concern matters other than bad language, nudity and fornication - 21st January 2013
 * Tailor-made and looking the part: is this the future of journalism? - Langmead’s hybrid role means he works with the buyers who decide which clothes go on the website - 14th January 2013
 * When disaster strikes in Africa, a nation is left to mourn alone - A tragic foreign story, which left dozens of children dead, has been virtually ignored - 7th January 2013
 * 2012 was a tricky year for media titans. Will 2013 be any better? - The feature film on phone hacking is one that won’t be generating revenues for Twentieth Century Fox - 31st December 2012
 * The arrogance of Lord Patten is damaging the BBC's reputation - There's a danger that the chairman thinks the BBC is out of the woods. That would be a mistaken view - 27th December 2012
 * Rushton hangs up his scissors and scalpel after 50 years at Private Eye - 'If you took away the cartoons from Private Eye it would be very boring, a worthy, boring magazine' - 17th December 2012
 * Fashion and politics mean the 'Vice' is right - It has taken a pornography website to propel Vice into its position as one of the world's most influential youth-oriented media brands - 10th December 2012
 * Those who fear control of the press might want to listen to this man - Nervous newspaper publishers have spent the weekend trying to put their ducks in a row - 3rd December 2012
 * Leveson: the press will be horrified - Watch out for the backlash - 30th November 2012
 * As usual, the press is hyperventilating – but this time it's out of sheer nerves - We will oppose, as a matter of fundamental principle, any system of regulation imposed - 26th November 2012
 * The return of Rommel as he marches into Britain's local newspaper industry - David Montgomery seems to have microscopic vision for the merest traces of meat on the tiniest piece of bone - 22nd November 2012
 * Tomorrow's journalists will be different animals - The media is eating itself. The BBC meltdown has been played out on the front page of every newspaper, just as the press itself is braced for an inevitably excoriating report by Lord Justice Leveson into its own culture and standards - 19th November 2012
 * Hamas, Israel and why social media like Twitter and Facebook are a new front in the war for Gaza - Constant updates from both sides provide a macabre commentary on modern warfare - 16th November 2012
 * They've still got the shortlist from last time, but which candidate can rescue the BBC? - The Independent's media editor on the search for an outsider to wipe the slate clean after the Newsnight ‘paedophile’ report and Entwistle’s resignation - 14th November 2012
 * As news heads 'step aside', it is inconceivable that further BBC heads will not roll - News that the most senior figures in the BBC News Division have “stood aside” may not come as a surprise at a time when the organisation's “shoddy journalism” has created a crisis that has brought down its Director General - 12th November 2012
 * For or against statutory regulation? Battle lines are drawn - Media academics have in effect placed themselves in opposition to newspapers - 12th November 2012
 * Why news that PRs outnumber hacks is bad for journalism - Any big story invariably develops into a credibility contest between reporter and communications specialists - 5th November 2012
 * With the BBC on the run, ITV’s reputation is gaining ground - The Savile story is essentially a tale of two broadcasters, and ITV will come out looking better for it - 21st October 2012
 * As Lord Leveson prepares to give his verdict, it's gone strangely quiet - Evan Harris, of the press reform group Hacked Off, smells a conspiracy not to cover Leveson - 8th October 2012
 * How the public lost its appetite for breakfast telly - It used to set the rhythm of the daily news cycle. But now lifestyles have changed, and with them the way we consume our media - 1st October 2012
 * You can knock Murdoch but credit where it's due to BSkyB - We might retain fears about the influence the media mogul exerts but BSkyB is an impressive act - 24th September 2012
 * It's untrustworthy, so why do people still buy The Sun? - The Sun always walked hand in hand with the boys in blue, but that relationship has soured - 17th September 2012
 * The world's most isolated people could do with London calling - Kim Jong-un presides over a state where accessing foreign news is a criminal offence - 10th September 2012
 * Comment isn't free when bloggers have a hidden (and lucrative) agenda - When The Guardian launched "Comment is free" in 2006, the title of the opinion-based adjunct to its website seemed perfectly suited to the spirit of the internet and the concept of "open journalism", which the paper embraces - 3rd September 2012
 * Channel 4 may no longer shock, but we should be glad it’s still here - It could do with some of the reflected glory from the anticipated success of the Paralympics - 27th August 2012
 * Another Murdoch at the MacTaggart: but does she come as friend or foe? - The question is whether Liz will use this to position herself for a greater role in her father’s business - 20th August 2012
 * Supremacy of BBC leaves commercial rivals struggling for a role - Without any question this was, from a media perspective, the BBC's Olympics - 13th August 2012
 * No way to treat the reporters who are putting their lives on the line - The 'Independent' journalist Kim Sengupta is one of the few reporters to have accessed Aleppo in Syria - 6th August 2012
 * A relationship with Arianna could be just what the doctor ordered - Huff Post UK might have enjoyed greater success if it had taken a well-known British media partner - 30th July 2012
 * A week when the BBC and Guardian reveal their hidden financial pain - Mark Thompson and Alan Rusbridger have been allies in countering the power of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp - 16th July 2012
 * New face for radio is off to hang out with the dancing dads - The mission of every major television controller is to find programmes – such as "Doctor Who", "The X Factor" and "Strictly Come Dancing" – which cross generations and bring families together in a shared living room experien - 16th July 2012
 * How The Times undermined its own good work on Leveson Inquiry - The implication that 'The Sun' had been illicitly accessing confidential files had to be quashed - 9th July 2012
 * Will YouView catch the eye in such a crowded TV market? - Much is riding on it, seven partner organisations are going to invest more than £16m each in the system - 2nd July 2012
 * A profound threat to the values that underpin the BBC's journalism - The corporation is treading a dangerous path. It could damage its editorial reputation - 25th June 2012
 * Microsoft unveils secret weapon in war for the future of entertainment - The arrival of the SmartGlass app will coincide with the launch of Microsoft's new Windows 8 technology - 18th June 2012
 * Tony Blair may have faced the 'feral beast', but it was nothing compared to the John Major years - It might seem extraordinary to a younger generation grown used to the hectoring powers of the right wing papers that a Conservative Prime Minister might be the subject of relentless personal attack from the Tory press - 13th June 2012
 * Controversy over jubilee coverage leaves BBC lacking an heir apparent - The BBC needs a visionary leader to take it into the next phase of convergence - 11th June 2012
 * A broken Mirror, or a reflection of the future of newspapers? - 4th June 2012
 * The internet Antichrist who is converting online evangelists - Andrew Keen, the British-born and self-styled "Antichrist of Silicon Valley", has a problem - 28th May 2012
 * What's next for Fleet Street? The brave new world of 'newsbrands' - Today is a momentous day for the British national press. It is the official end of the "newspaper" industry and the beginning of a whole new economic sector: the "newsbrands" business - 22nd May 2012
 * Adam Buxton – the quirky radio star breaking into the mainstream - Tonight he's nominated for two Sony awards with his long-time radio partner Joe Cornish and his touring show Bug has finally been given its own television slot by Sky - 14th May 2012
 * How London turned into the global centre of music technology - It was a packed nightclub in London's King's Cross, and eight internet companies faced each other off in a competition that embodied the new confidence in Britain's digital sector - 7th May 2012
 * Insights into the US as PBS offers up its documentary credentials - PBS cannot compete with the BBC in this country, and nor would it try to, but it does offer a similar hallmark of quality and a welcome new insight into American life - 1st May 2012
 * Victoria's secret: how Radio 5 has got Westminster running scared - Derbyshire will mix it with politicians but can also be sensitive with callers - 23rd April 2012
 * Court coverage was a world apart from fireworks of OJ Simpson trial - The televised sentencing of murderer David Gilroy yesterday was treated as a landmark moment, coming ahead of the introduction of cameras into courts in England and Wales later this year. But it showed the limited nature of such coverage - 19th April 2012
 * The woman with £1 billion to spend – and a hotline to British mothers - Karen Blackett runs a company that will dictate the fortunes of the television, newspaper, radio, outdoor and online sectors - 16th April 2012
 * The rapper turned entrepreneur who has the eyes and ears of the young - Edwards' mother gave him a simple videocamera – which shaped his career - 9th April 2012



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 * Lawyer Peter Herbert vows to tackle racism in football - but is he just an opportunist who saw an open goal? The Independent, 9th October 2012



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