Contemporary 'media'

When I arrived in the UK, coming from Germany, I was profoundly shocked at the state of the UK media. I still don't think the Guardian or Times are good newspapers, certainly nowhere near the league that the Frankfurter Allgemeine or Süddeutsche Zeitung still play in.

German media has lost a lot of quality (e.g., through introduction of private TV in the 80s) in recent decades compared to what it used to be (and there have always been crap papers like Bild-Zeitung (the German Sun/Mail) or Die Welt there, too, but even the Axel Springer-Verlag is better than the Murdoch empire), but it is still considerably superior, with much better journalistic ethics and public service ethos generally than in the UK. There are well-edited local and regional newspapers that play an important role in forming identities. The market is also still a lot less concentrated than over here. Obviously, it is being strongly affected by the Internet, too, so it's anyone's guess what that will eventually cause.

I don't really rate UK papers either but I would think that the FT is up there with the Frankfurter Allgemeine or Süddeutsche Zeitung, if not better. It is certainly more influential, globally speaking.

We also have the BBC of course, which is better than Axel Springer and the World Service blows Deutsche Welle out of the water (as much as I like DW).

It reaches you in the sense that it is available online and free to read. You can lead a horse to water...

Oh, so you want 'content' do you? Let's utilise the social media, that couldn't go wrong
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/frank-grimey-grimes#.jm7OradgV

It's called 'audience engagement'

Long, and in places doesn't say anything most people don't already know, anyway, but still worth reading, I think:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/how-technology-disrupted-the-truth

Appreciate this should probably just go into the classifieds, but anyway

I subscribed to 'Delayed Gratification' last year. Long form journalism, published quarterly and late
http://www.slow-journalism.com/

Their spiel is:

Delayed Gratification is the world’s first Slow Journalism magazine.
It’s a beautiful printed quarterly publication which revisits the
events of the previous three months to see what happened after the
dust settled and the news agenda moved on. It is proud to be ‘Last to
Breaking News’.

The bloke that started it did a TED talk here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtFXtnWME4

Anyway, I've got 4 issues from last year.
Feels a shame to just bin them as think they're doing a good thing, and they're well produced, no ads, nice graphics, weighty paper, proper pics etc.

They're 10 quid each normally. Anyone want to send me a tenner and I'll post the 4 to you?

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Interesting. I'll take them, will PM you @duncs

Great magazine, used to get it sent to one of the places I worked at...