Media sections in Newspapers

Crubeens

Can anyone recommend good newspapers to read articles on the media? The only ones I know are The Telegraph and Guardian on a Monday, and then the Sunday Times and Business Post on a Sunday. They have decent articles about Radio and TV.
Any others?

herbieflowers

As in commentary on TV programmes?

Crubeens

As in commentary on TV programmes?

Yes that, but also behind the scenes stuff like takeovers, figures, industry stuff.
The Guardian on a Monday has a whole pull out section on all matters media, and I want more!

lostexpectation

Crubeens wrote:

Can anyone recommend good newspapers to read articles on the media? The only ones I know are The Telegraph and Guardian on a Monday, and then the Sunday Times and Business Post on a Sunday. They have decent articles about Radio and TV.
Any others?

the internet:P

monument

There's a bit in the The Irish Times business pages on Thursdays.

On Sundays there's also a column which rants on about other media outlets in Ireland on Sunday, meanwhile the Guardian's sister the Observer has a decent media section within business section.

Weekly, Village Magazine has a media column. Fortnightly the Phoenix has media section ('Fit to Print', I think).

And as the above post says, there's online... http://media.guardian.co.uk/ (free reg req)

flogen

If you're looking online, www.digitalspy.co.uk is alright, although its Irish media coverage is pretty sparce; the Guardian is probably one of the best for media coverage mind you, Irish media coverage tends to be a weekly thing, not sure if there are any decent online sources etc.

DMC

Media Guardian can be prone to the odd hit and miss.... but its the best site thats out there.

www.independent.co.uk/media is ok... it tried to break the Guardian's stranglehold on media articles and jobs in print on Mondays, but it hasn't really.

monument

That link should be http://news.independent.co.uk/media

Oh, the London Indo online, you have to love it… on the outset, it looks too slick to be true, and then they hit you with articles that are split in two with newspaper like columns – would someone from INM remind them it’s the bloody net!

TheFredJ

The Guardian's Sunday sister paper, though gone seriously downlhill since it's relaunch, still carries a good (but rather small) media section which is worth a look.

If you're reading the Brit media sections, then you also need to be reading Private Eye magazine every fortnight, for its Street of Shame section, with the stories behind some of the stories.

In terms of resources for the Irish Media, I don't know what (if anything) is available in print, but the Sunday morning media programme on NewsTalk is worth a listen to. RTE used to have something comparable, but it seems to have been shifted off the schedules in order to give Marianne Finnucan somewhere to graze before they finally shoot her.

There's a couple of good Brit media resources - more for journalists than for media consumers - that are time to time worth a look:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk
http://www.journalism.co.uk

If only we had something comparable in this country...