24 hours in media: Wed 2 May

We think there's something in curating a bunch of interesting things to read - from blogs to news stories you might not have seen, from the world of the media. This is written with a UK viewpoint, but not excluding the rest of the world's media stories, where they're relevant and interesting to those within the UK.

This is a trial - both from our point of view (seeing how long it takes to produce, when it makes sense to produce it, and what editorial lessons we'll learn), and from your point of view (to see whether this is actually any good). Your thoughts are welcome - either on the editorial below, or on the concept - in the comments below.



Newspapers

Rupert Murdoch doesn't seem a fit person to us - he looks a bit old and doddery. But that cheap gag aside, it's not been a good 24 hours for the Murdoch business. The Guardian's editorial naturally is anti-Murdoch, concluding: Bad as things got for the Murdochs yesterday, they will soon get worse. He sent a apology, of sorts, to all staff. Roy Greenslade calls it a "letter", but the BBC calls it an "email". I'd quite like it to be a letter.

OK. So if Rupert is 'not fit' to run a company. Who was in charge of the system that regulated him for the last 20+ years?, tweets journalist and Director of Polis, Charlie Beckett.

Louise Mensch [defends] Rupert Murdoch [who owns] HarperCollins [who publish] Tilly Bagshawe [whose sister is] Louise Mensch. #SmallWorld, says "occasional Dalek" Barnaby Edwards. Tilly Bagshawe also writes for The Times, adds Sam Bangert. And, frankly, what sort of a name is "Tilly" anyway? Don't tell us it's just short for Matilda. So's Matt.

Meanwhile, some newspapers are doing better than before. Take the Star Tribune in Minnesota, for example: no longer in bankruptcy, debt is down by four-fifths, and circulation is up. Niemen Journalism Lab has more.

The Financial Times is getting rid of its iPad and iPhone app: they've run an HTML5 app for many months now, and they'll now make the iPad app stop working. The web app userbase  overtook that of the iOS app within three months of launch says paidContent. Benefits to the FT mean that their stuff works on iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile; and it's easier to do new stuff.


Radio

INRIX's Andrea Day appears to have spent her day photographing old radios yesterday. She spotted us 'favouriting' that tweet (a method we use to take notes of interesting tweets), and added this one. Er, cheers.

News from the BBC: Radio 1's noble attempt to turn great appointment-to-listen radio into crappy unflattering TV in dimly-lit patched-up studios with presenters wearing headphones staring at a script is now online to "enjoy" again. Well, nine minutes is. Knock yourself out with the supposed future of radio, then place head firmly in hands. (The BBC themselves worded this news slightly differently.)

The Guardian joins much of the known universe in saying how wonderful John Peel is in their editorial this morning, after his record collection was opened up. (The website, The Space, apparently will be there until the end of October. If we all club together, perhaps we can buy them a bigger hard-drive and they won't need to delete it.)

In the US, Pandora and Arbitron are taking part in a conspiracy, according to a rather strongly-worded blog post from Harker Research. Basically, Arbitron - the US equivalent of RAJAR - is changing slowly from diaries to a personal people meter (PPM) technology, and the overall figures for total hours (the Americans call this TSL) have gone down a bit as a result. Pandora think they're responsible because they're great. Harker don't, quite, think so.

In Australia, news that journalists are being cut are sparking quite a lot of debate. Here's another perspective: Newsrooms are plodders but need to become progressives to secure their place.


Television

The BBC's Steve Martin posts this rather fine TV promo showing how the BBC is talking up London all over the world. It makes us almost proud to live here. Bravo, BBC promo people.