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Readers pledge Ł17,000 for brain-damaged youngster
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 4 2008, 7.00am
Messenger appeal set to hit target (more)

Outside Edge: It's never too late to say sorry
From Financial Times. Posted August 15 2008, 6.36pm
There are serious corrections that mean real egg on the face for a newspaper and some mistakes may be too big to retract, writes Jurek Martin (more)

Virgin Media pledges to outpace rival
From Financial Times. Posted August 7 2008, 10.35pm
Cable communications company aims to maintain its speed advantage over broadband rivals, in spite of net loss rising to ÂŁ447m for the quarter (more)

Star-Ledger launches video newscast - ‘This is not local TV news’
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 29 2008, 9.18am
The Star-Ledger, based in Newark, New Jersey, debuted its new daily online news show yesterday - the first stage in creating an interactive video news experience on the paper's website. "Let's make one thing perfectly clear from the outset: This is not local TV news," says John Hassell, the Ledger's deputy managing editor (online), in a [...] (more)

Ofcom Chair Acknowledges stv's Public Service Cost Challenge
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted July 21 2008, 7.57am
The chair of the broadcasting regulators, Ofcom, has acknowledged that stv might have difficulties fulfilling its obligations providing news and other programmes which have a public service value, but don’t necessarily make financial sense. David Currie was speaking following... (more)

HSBC edges closer to Shanghai listing
From Daily Telegraph. Posted July 20 2008, 12.01am
HSBC has held talks with China's main sovereign investment fund over a potential investment in Europe's largest bank, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. (more)

Activist American hedge fund eyes Sky stake in ITV
From The Times. Posted July 20 2008, 12.00am
AN activist American hedge fund has drawn up detailed plans to buy BSkyB’s 17.9% stake in ITV. (more)

Helen Mayson joins Edge magazine as deputy editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 8 2008, 11.00pm
Mayson moves from lifestyle publication DV8 (more)

Mobile company 3 complains over T-Mobile's 'pledge' advertising campaign
From Media Guardian. Posted July 7 2008, 10.03am
Mobile operator 3 is aiming to derail rival T-Mobile's new TV campaign after complaining to the advertising watchdog. By Mark Sweney (more)

KCR to relaunch as The Edge
From Radio Today. Posted July 3 2008, 1.46pm
Merseyside station KCR 106.7 has been bought by a consortium headed by group chairman and presenter Jon Jessop.The purchase means another end to the name KCR, as the station will re-launch as 106.7 The Edge later this year. (more)

Patricia Routledge berates 'rude' BBC
From Digital Spy. Posted June 26 2008, 9.14am
Actress Patricia Routledge accuses the BBC of being "run by ten-year-old children". (more)

Images from a newsroom: the Star-Ledger gets webcast ready
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 11 2008, 4.34pm
John Hassell, online editor at the Star-Ledger newspaper, has posted pictures of the Ledger's newsroom as it prepares for its new webcast news show. The noon bulletin, which will be launched this summer, is being developed with help from Michael Rosenblum, who helped build Current.tv. Check out Hassell's pics on Flickr. (more)

Drinks makers pledge green action
From Daily Telegraph. Posted June 11 2008, 12.01am
Britain's leading soft drinks companies from Britvic to Coca-Cola have teamed up to commit to a series of green goals in the latest move by industry to meet consumers' environmental concerns. (more)

BBC Radio 4 pledges fewer but longer dramas
From Media Guardian. Posted June 4 2008, 3.45pm
Radio 4 has promised to focus on fewer but longer-running drama series for the next year. By Ben Dowell (more)

NME Radio launch: station promises 'cutting edge of new music'
From Media Guardian. Posted June 2 2008, 6.07am
New digital radio station NME Radio has begun test transmissions and unveiled a team of presenters including former Xfm DJ Claire Sturgess. By John Plunkett (more)

BBC pledges 'renewed commitment' to out-of-London production
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 4.17pm
The BBC is to make a 'significant' boost to network television production in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Arpad Busson, a hedge fund 'hippy'
From The Times. Posted May 18 2008, 12.00am
Search the Sunday Times Rich List (more)

BBC Knowledge Magazine launches in US
From Media Guardian. Posted May 13 2008, 6.29am
BBC Magazines is to launch a US title aimed at readers with a 'curious mind' that will take on the likes of National Geographic. By Stephen Brook (more)

BBC failed to pass on money pledged to charity
From The Independent. Posted May 10 2008, 12.00am
Just one day after ITV was landed with a record fine over its misuse of premium rate phone lines, the BBC has been forced to apologise over money raised during television phone-ins which was not paid to the charities it was intended for. (more)

Sky edges closer to 9m subscribers
From Digital Spy. Posted April 30 2008, 10.11am
Sky records 56,000 third quarter net customer additions, reaching a new total of 8.89m subscribers. (more)

Archant pledges to donate revenue from BNP
From Media Guardian. Posted April 16 2008, 12.14pm
Archant has pledged to give revenues generated from controversial British National party ads published in its papers to charity. By Stephen Brook (more)

All the Pulitzers' men: US reporters have kept their edge
From The Independent. Posted April 13 2008, 12.00am
Anyone following the recent awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes, America's premier honour for journalism and the arts, might believe The Washington Post has become the country's dominant newspaper. Post staffers claimed prizes in six of the 14 journalism categories, including the prestigious gold medal for public service. The New York Times, which owns the most prizes since the Pulitzers began in 1917, won two this year. And The Wall Street Journal – named last year's gold medalist before being acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp – got none. (more)

Union pledges its support to journalists under threat
From Press Gazette. Posted April 11 2008, 12.00am
he National Union of Journalists has condemned a growing culture of “intolerance for press freedoms” at its annual delegate meeting in Belfast and pledged to provide financial support to a journalist who faces “unprecedented legal action”... (more)

Paul Howlett's film picks: The Edge | Great Expectations | Pan's Labyrinth
From Media Guardian. Posted April 9 2008, 12.10am
Paul Howlett on The Edge | Great Expectations | Pan's Labyrinth (more)

On Demand Group Selects ConSentry?s Intelligent Switches for Control at Network Edge
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted April 3 2008, 1.14pm
ConSentry?s Intelligent Switching Architecture Provides Network Control and Granular Visibility to Address Present and Future Business Challenges Milpitas, CA ? April 3, 2008 ? ConSentry Networks, the leader in intelligent switching, today announced that On Demand Group (ODG), the leading video on demand (VDO) and pay per view (PPV) TV operator, has deployed the LANShield? Switch platform. ConSentry?s intelligent switch provides integrated user and application controls and granular network visibility of all branch-office user activity... (more)

Tennis: BBC aces rivals in move to serve up Wimbledon with digital edge
From Media Guardian. Posted March 27 2008, 10.54am
Tennis: The BBC has secured the rights to Wimbledon until 2014 in a deal designed to maximise its digital output (more)

Double-edged sword of technology
From Press Gazette. Posted March 23 2008, 12.00am
Traditional media models are being “smashed” by a digital onslaught, despite the way online journalism has enhanced newspapers’ output, according to the managing director of Guardian News & Media. (more)

Boss rues collapse of hedge fund
From BBC News. Posted March 14 2008, 7.38am
Carlyle Group pledges to "stand by" investors in the firm's failed fund, the Financial Times reports. (more)

Analysis: Will Burnham pledge help TV?
From Digital Spy. Posted February 22 2008, 6.46pm
Culture secretary Andy Burnham says he is cracking his whip in aid of the TV industry - but is it that simple? (more)

Would-be hacks to benefit from new online knowledge base
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 21 2008, 4.25am
Regional press man asks: "Do you want to beajournalist.co.uk?" (more)

Correction: EuroHedge
From The Times. Posted January 29 2008, 3.24pm
<i>The Sunday Times report </i>(Business, 27 January, "Crisis grips European hedge funds") suggested that, according to EuroHedge, the hedge funds Corin, Phylon, Addax FX1, Henderson Global Currency, Odey Treasury, Sector ERV, Kinetic Special Situations, Systeia Alternative Risk Trading and Polar Technology had suffered heavy losses this year. In fact this is a recent list of European hedge funds that closed last year that was published by EuroHedge. There is no suggestion any of these funds suffered heavy losses. We are happy to put the record straight. (more)

Cutting Edge return watched by 2.7m
From Media Guardian. Posted January 25 2008, 1.19pm
Channel 4's Cutting Edge returned with a documentary about a music prodigy with cystic fybrosis that drew 2.7 million viewers. By Tara Conlan (more)

NBC pledges to axe glitzy pilot shows
From Media Guardian. Posted January 22 2008, 6.08pm
NBC has promised to axe the glitzy pilots of new series traditionally produced at great expense by US broadcasters, saving around $50m a year. By Owen Gibson (more)

Blu-Ray takes inside edge in war with HD-DVD
From The Times. Posted January 8 2008, 1.24pm
The sprawling consortium of technology and media companies assembled to promote the HD-DVD format of next-generation high definition discs faces a spate of defections to the rival Blu-Ray Disc consortium. (more)

BBC Knowledge Commissioners announced
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted December 3 2007, 5.15pm
BBC Visions Controller of Knowledge Commissioning George Entwistle has announced the new lineup of factual commissioning editors to work across all four BBC TV channels and on multiplatform content. (more)

Entwistle takes BBC knowledge controller role
From Digital Spy. Posted November 21 2007, 7.17am
George Entwistle is made the corporation's new controller of knowledge commissioning. (more)

BBC staff edge closer to strike over job cuts
From Media Guardian. Posted November 20 2007, 5.44pm
BBC staff moved a step closer to strike action today after the first in a series of meetings between unions and management ended in stalemate. By Owen Gibson (more)

George Entwistle appointed controller of BBC knowledge
From Media Guardian. Posted November 20 2007, 2.32pm
The BBC has appointed George Entwistle as controller of knowledge - confirming he is not in the running to be BBC1 controller. By Stephen Brook (more)

George Entwistle named Controller Knowledge Commissioning
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted November 20 2007, 2.20pm
George Entwistle has been named as the new BBC Controller of Knowledge Commissioning. (more)

Sex trafficking pledge after regional press meets ministers
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 8 2007, 12.00am
Fears over small ads prompt industry-wide review of guidance for local newspapers (more)

BSkyB renews ITV pledge as profits hit £143m
From The Times. Posted November 2 2007, 9.34am
James Murdoch, chief executive of BSkyB, has highlighted his commitment to ITV, as his company reported an operating profit of £143 million for the first quarter on the back of strong uptake of its broadband offering. (more)

C4 celebrates birthday with pledge to redraw remit and save its soul
From Media Guardian. Posted November 1 2007, 11.53pm
Broadcasting 25-year-old broadcaster to invest in comedy and drama amid allegations of dumbing down. (more)

Channel 4: After 25 years at the edge, Chairman Luke Johnson looks to the broadcaster's future
From The Independent. Posted October 29 2007, 12.20am
Channel 4 is a brilliant accident of history, and Britain's cultural life over the last quarter century has been all the richer for it. At its heart, the organisation exists to provide a forum for individual voices making one-off programmes that would otherwise never reach a national audience. And at its finest, Channel 4 can be sublime: stirring drama like It's a Free World, riotous comedy like The IT Crowd, compelling documentaries like Human Footprint, unbeatable current affairs like Dispatches. The BBC is a vast state-sponsored institution; ITV is a huge commercial business. Channel 4 sits between these goliaths, a quirky amalgam that aims to deliver public goods while retaining the verve of the private sector. (more)

FT appoints financial historian with "cutting edge"
From Press Gazette. Posted October 23 2007, 12.00am
Historian Niall Ferguson has joined the Financial Times as contributing editor, writing a blog on international finance and articles for the paper’s weekend section and op-ed page. (more)

BBC axes 2,500 jobs but pledges more quality
From The Independent. Posted October 18 2007, 2.30pm
The BBC announced the loss of 2,500 jobs today - and said viewers would see fewer "middling" programmes. (more)

Shortlist pledges to shun 'breasts and bums'
From Press Gazette. Posted September 21 2007, 12.00am
Mike Soutar, chief executive of Shortlist, the new general interest title aimed well-off men aged between 18 and 35 which launched this week, says the new title will reinterpret what it means to be a men’s magazine. (more)

Why knowledge matters ? the BBC's Knowledge Manifesto
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted September 20 2007, 6.45pm
Jana Bennett Director of BBC Vision announced today a raft of new highprofile factual programmes speaking at a Royal Television Society event where she stressed the BBCs continued commitment to serious factual programming and outlined the BBCs new approach to its factual output its Knowledge Manifesto. (more)

Bharti Airtel hedges TV bets
From Rapid TV News. Posted September 18 2007, 10.23pm
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telco and one of the companies planning a DTH satellite platform launch, will also go ahead with an IPTV service. (more)

Hotline: Mediaedge:cia scoops Freeview account
From Brand Republic. Posted August 31 2007, 12.00am
Mediaedge:cia has scooped the media planning and buying account for Freeview. The agency won the business following a final shoot-out against Carat, in a process handled by the AAR. The agency's first work will be an integrated campaign that will break in the run-up to digital switch-over this October. (more)

Freeview appoints Mediaedge:cia ahead of blitz
From Brand Republic. Posted August 29 2007, 8.30am
LONDON - Freeview has hired Mediaedge:cia to handle its media planning and buying account ahead of a substantial increase in marketing spend in the run-up to the digital switchover. (more)

Bellamy seeks "campaign edge" for C4
From Digital Spy. Posted August 26 2007, 5.32pm
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy calls for Channel 4 to adopt a "campaigning edge". (more)

Channel 4 pledges "creative renewal"
From Digital Spy. Posted August 24 2007, 12.37pm
Channel 4 celebrates its 25th anniversary by pledging a period of reinvention and "creative renewal". (more)

Ukraine journalist shares knowledge with UK media students
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 13 2007, 12.00am
Plus: flaming pyjama loophole action, Hero of Heroes tribute and more regional press news in brief (more)

Local knowledge seals police shooting scoop for the Argus
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 4 2007, 12.00am
Good contacts, good journalism and a bit of luck brought exclusive front page (more)

Slingbox ads gain sporting edge
From Media Guardian. Posted June 11 2007, 1.00am
4.30pm: Henry Blofeld and Jon Culshaw are to appear in ads for PC TV device Slingbox. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Murdoch edges closer to WSJ deal
From Press Gazette. Posted June 5 2007, 12.00am
Rupert Murdoch appears to be at least one step nearer in his bid to buy the Wall Street Journal, America’s number one business daily. (more)

Editors pledge to fight 'crippling' African press freedom curbs
From Press Gazette. Posted June 4 2007, 12.00am
Leading global media figures have described the need for African governments to abolish curbs on press freedom as a “matter of urgency”. (more)

China pledges to repair Guinean state broadcaster HQ damaged in plane crash
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 18 2007, 4.15pm
Excerpt from report by Balde Abdallah entitled “Politics: The National Assembly to the rescue” published by Guinean newspaper GuinĂ©enews website on 17 April At its plenary session of today which was meant to renew its office, the National Assembly decided to send a strong delegation to Guinean Television and Radio at Koloma [suburb of capital] which [...] (more)

BBC Trust calls for editorial policy pledge
From Media Guardian. Posted March 22 2007, 12.00am
3.45pm: The BBC Trust wants assurances that staff are aware of editorial guidelines, following the Blue Peter phone-in scandal. By Tara Conlan . (more)

Enquirer reporter shows local knowledge in TV interview
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 19 2007, 12.00am
Journalist appears on BBC news to warn of possible link between stabbings (more)

Hedge fund 'calls for seat on EMI's board'
From Media Guardian. Posted February 19 2007, 12.00am
8.15am: The chief investment officer of the Eclectica fund will make his request to the embattled music giant this morning, according to a newspaper report. By Fiona Walsh. (more)

Change is on the air at Misawa?s EDGE Radio
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 13 2007, 9.51am
Behind recent programming changes at the American Forces Network (AFN) radio station in Misawa, Japan, is a plan aimed at capturing and keeping more listeners, said Master Sgt. Mike Burnette, the section chief of detachment operations. In the five months that Burnette has been at AFN Misawa, he’s introduced a new, eclectic music lineup for EDGE [...] (more)

Korea believes its DMB system has the edge in Europe
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 6 2007, 1.02pm
Korean cellular phone producers Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, plan to provide 100 DMB-enabled handsets to the Vatican in time for President Roh Moo-hyun’s visit to Rome next week. The phones will be used as a broadcasting terminal late this year when the country’s public broadcaster RAI TV launches terrestrial DMB with one video and [...] (more)

River FM May Go Same Way as 107 The Edge
From Merry Media. Posted January 21 2007, 11.57pm
Speculation has been growing over the last few weeks about the possible closure of West Lothian radio station River FM by the Kingdom Radio Group. The Scotland on Sunday says the station will shut on January 29th if a buyer is not found and so far no major group is interested. Rumours spread that Kingdom are in talks with an individual.. (more)

Mediaedge:cia appoints Emap publisher as managing partner
From Brand Republic. Posted November 24 2006, 8.11am
LONDON - Mediaedge:cia has appointed Tim Collison to the position of managing partner for marketing across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, from his role of editor and publisher of Emap trade title Media & Marketing Europe. (more)

CNN edges out Guardian and BBC as best performer
From Brand Republic. Posted November 7 2006, 8.11am
LONDON - CNN Europe has just pipped Guardian Unlimited and BBC Online to rank as the best performing media website. (more)

ITN staff pledge to resist ‘damaging’ pension changes
From Press Gazette. Posted October 19 2006, 10.00am
The NUJ was expected to hold a meeting with ITN staff on Wednesday after the news organisation proposed "very damaging" changes to its final salary pension scheme. (more)

Former 'Panorama' editor takes BBC Knowledge job
From Digital Spy. Posted October 4 2006, 7.48pm
Jane Bennett makes a raft of new appointments in the newly created BBC Vision group. (more)

BBC controller of knowledge appointed
From Media Guardian. Posted October 4 2006, 1.00am
2pm: Glenwyn Benson has been appointed to be the controller of knowledge in the new BBC Vision content division. By Jason Deans. (more)

BBC Knowledge brand to be revived
From Digital Spy. Posted September 7 2006, 5.59pm
BBC Four predecessor BBC Knowledge is to make a comeback as one of a bouquet of new BBC Worldwide channels. (more)

New Hong Kong broadcasting head pledges editorial independence
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 14 2006, 12.00pm
The new head of the government-run Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) pledged today to uphold the station’s editorial independence amid concern about government interference. The deputy director of broadcasting, Gracie Foo, who was appointed last week to head RTHK, said she would also maintain close contact with union members to gain a stronger understanding of their concerns. Foo [...] (more)

Journalists pledge to fight CN Group pension freeze
From Press Gazette. Posted July 26 2006, 11.00pm
Journalists pledge to fight CN Group pension freeze (more)

Staff pledge to fight Cumbrian Newspapers pension freeze
From Press Gazette. Posted July 26 2006, 11.00pm
Staff at Cumbrian Newspapers are threatening industrial action against proposals to freeze the company's final salary pension scheme for all members of staff. (more)

BBC pledges rebate if licence fee not spent wisely
From Media Guardian. Posted July 12 2006, 8.29am
Michael Grade has promised to hand licence fee payers a rebate if the BBC fails to come up with satisfactory ways of spending their money. By Owen Gibson. (more)

The future of the BBC - cutting edge and cutting staff
From Media Guardian. Posted July 10 2006, 8.25am
Friday's launch of the BBC annual report was a sombre affair, overshadowed by wrangles over the licence fee bid and fears about restructuring. By Maggie Brown. (more)

Gardeners asked to show knowledge in new viral game
From Brand Republic. Posted June 13 2006, 8.06am
LONDON – BBC celebrity gardener Chris Beardshaw is promoting his Growing for Life online initiative, designed to revive interest in the profession in the UK, with a viral gardening game. (more)

Prezza pics photographer pledges cash for 'falsely jailed' Iraqi journalist
From Press Gazette. Posted June 8 2006, 12.00am
The photographer who got the exclusive pictures of John Prescott playing croquet is using the cash from the sale of the photographs to try to save the life of a journalist and interpreter whom he claims has been falsely imprisoned in Iraq. (more)

Keeping audiences on the edge of their seats: It's all in the script
From The Independent. Posted May 29 2006, 12.00am
In Britain we like our television scriptwriters to be lovably eccentric - think the anarchic Paul Abbott, the flamboyant Russell T Davies or the wonderfully indiscreet Andrew Davies. (more)

FT and Time edge rivals at SOPA
From Brand Republic. Posted May 26 2006, 4.05am
The Financial Times and Time Asia were the big regional winners at this year’s awards for editorial excellence held by SOPA, the Society of Publishers in Asia, in which print publications competed directly against online and wire services for the first time. The Financial Times picked up five awards and one honourable mention, including the award for Excellence in Newspaper Design, pipping rival Wall Street Journal Asia, which received an hounourable mention for its new compact layout. Time Asia, meanwhile, picked up four awards and seven honourable mentions. In the English language local newspaper and small magazine category, Hong Kong’s SCMP Group scooped nine awards, the most of the evening, for its daily and Sunday papers. The Ming Pao Group similarly dominated the Chinese language category, picking up six awards for Ming Pao and Ming Pao Weekly, as well as one award for Yazhou Zhoukan, the newsweekly it jointly owns with Tom Group. (more)

GCap in Capital Radio pledge
From Media Guardian. Posted May 24 2006, 1.26pm
12.15pm: GCap today pledged to take Capital Radio back to top spot in London. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Prodi pledges to shake up Italian media sector
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 18 2006, 4.45pm
Italy's new prime minister, Romano Prodi, promised a shake-up of media regulation today as he seeks to loosen the grip on the sector of his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi. Prodi said he was considering creating a new watchdog specifically to regulate competition in the media sector where Berlusconi controls private broadcaster Mediaset. "Regarding the oversight of pluralism of information, the (more)

No Technical Knowledge Needed to Create Podcasts at Gabcast.com
From radio.about.com. Posted April 14 2006, 1.14am
If your goal is to create your own Podcast but you want a zero technical curve, then Gabcast.com might be your service. All you need is your telephone and the... (more)

Rusbridger acknowledges threat from web start-ups
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 21 2006, 11.45am
The internet often provides better information than newspapers, admits Guardian editor (more)

British forces are first to give media safety pledge
From Press Gazette. Posted March 2 2006, 12.00am
The British military has become the first armed forces of a major power to formally recognise the issue of media safety in war and pledge that it will never deliberately target journalists. (more)

Northcliffe journalists still on knife edge after DMGT calls off sale of regional titles
From Press Gazette. Posted February 23 2006, 12.00am
Staff fear DMGT retention means cuts for costs, jobs and editorial quality of the papers (more)

BBC pledges Ł100m for UK film
From Media Guardian. Posted February 22 2006, 11.12am
11am: The BBC is promising to invest at least an extra Ł100m in the production and distribution of British feature films over the next decade. By Jason Deans. (more)

Lord Rotheremere pledges £250,000 to journalists' charity
From Press Gazette. Posted January 20 2006, 3.24pm
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Johnston pledges no job cuts as it buys 'Scotsman' for Ł160m
From The Independent. Posted December 20 2005, 12.00am
The regional newspaper group Johnston Press has promised not to cut jobs and to invest in the editorial content of The Scotsman, which it bought yesterday for Ł160m. (more)

Chrysalis pledges quick sales as profits slump
From The Times. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Chrysalis, the music to broadcasting group, today blamed a difficult radio advertising market for a slump in profits and said it was on course to complete a review of its radio business by the end of the summer. (more)