The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

19/08/01
* The PR guru for whom recession holds no fears talks to Conal
Walsh - see Clifford, Max 19/08/01
* ITV's share of the total number of viewers watching television
advertisements has fallen below 50 per cent for the first time
19/08/01 N 1 1>7
* Peter Bart, the editor of the film business trade paper Variety
was suspended from his post on Friday for contravening
journalistic ethics and crossing the boundaries 19/08/01 B 19
1>6 Photographs
* Having made loyal readers of a generation of young men,
publishers must hold on tight as boys grow up to a mature
lifestyle 19/08/01 N 5 1>5 Photograph
* Attempts by ITN to hold on to its ITV news contract by
fighting off a consortium featuring BSkyB will come under
intense fire with the publication of a report - see Business &
Industry 26/08/01
* The publicist Max Clifford will aim to transform the reputation
of Claims Direct - see Financial Institutions 26/08/01
* Peter Preston on the Tory Press 26/08/01 B 14 7>8
Photograph
* One year on from the MacTaggart lecture in which Greg Dyke
laid out his masterplan for the BBC 26/08/01 N 6 1>8
Photographs
* Steve Barnett argues that the BBC must be allowed a different
vision of children's popular culture 26/08/01 N 6 3>7
Photograph
* Alan Ruddock argues that the tabloid's slide into infotainment
has serious implications for broadsheets 26/08/01 N 7 1>7
Photographs
* When the media buyer agreed to an offer from France's Havas,
WPP's Martin Sorrell felt he'd been misled - see Business &
Industry 02/09/01
* In a notoriously bitchy profession, Phil Hall has a reputation as
one of the nice guys and after being sacked by Rupert Murdoch
has found his dream job as editor-in-chief of Hello! Magazine
02/09/01 N 8 2>8 Photographs
* Bob Gavron pays tribute to his friend Paul Hamlyn, the hugely
successful founder of Octopus Publishing, who died recently -
see Deaths 09/09/01
* College lecturer Vanessa Leggett stands to make a fortune
after becoming a martyr for press freedom in the US - see
International Affairs: U.S.A. 09/09/01
* Sky-style imports threaten quality public service TV, Tim
Gardam, head of programmes at Channel 4, calls for one
regulator to speak up for viewers 09/09/01 N 7 1>5 Photographs
* Interview with Jefferson Hack, who's reported to be dating
supermodel Kate Moss, and editing yet another new hip
magazine - see Hack, Jefferson 16/09/01
* Why should Britain's favourite media babe spend six weeks in
a filthy hut without a television set? - see Frostrup, Mariella
16/09/01
* The new bi-annual bibles 16/09/01 M 31 3>4 Photographs
* Last week's terrorist atrocity was a grotesque PR stunt which
transfixed the television-consuming masses 16/09/01 N 6 1>5
Photographs
* Terror in America: What the papers say 16/09/01 X 6>7 1>5
Photographs
* Amid the saturation TV coverage, US papers proved their
mettle 16/09/01 N 7 5>8
* An open letter from former Culture Secretary Chris Smith to
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Gavyn Davies, new Chairman of the BBC - see BBC 23/09/01
* Gavyn Davies lands the job of Chairman of the BBC - see
BBC 23/09/01
* The Media Battle: The Press by Peter Preston - see Terrorism
23/09/01
* New York diary: Mark Georgiou of BBC's Six O'clock News
on bringing home the reality of Manhattan 23/09/01 N 7 1>4
Photograph
* News Corp's attempt to create a global network by buying
DirecTV is likely to fall victim to the terrorists 30/09/01 N 6
2>7 Photographs
* Since September 11th, television appears to have assumed a
role of greater significance that sceptics on the future of
television could ever have thought possible 30/09/01 N 7 1>6
Photographs
* For 40 years, Private Eye has enraged and amused, as it enters
its fifth decade, can the magazine keep pace with the newer,
darker satire of TV's Brass Eye? - see Private Eye 07/10/01
* The British journalist, Yvonne Ridley, who is being held in
Afghanistan is to be released - see Terrorism 07/10/01
* The Office of Fair Trading is expected to accuse BSkyB of
acting anti-competitively when it comes to charging its rivals for
its premium channels - see Business & Industry 07/10/01
* The Financial Times' new editor, Andrew Gowers says why he
is unconcerned by falling sales in the UK 07/10/01 N 6 1>6
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* Newspaper sales are up but coverage is expensive and ad sales
are down, says Peter Preston 07/10/01 N 7 1>6 Photographs
* Profile on journalist Kate Adie, the BBC's best-known war
correspondent - see Adie, Kate 14/10/01
* Harry Harris, the £100,000-a-year football correspondent of
The Mirror, has been accused by his editor Piers Morgan of
tearing up his contract to join the rival Express group 14/10/01
B 14 1>8 Photographs
* The Spectator's ubiquitous editor, Boris Johnson, shows no
sign of wanting to give up the job despite being elected a Tory
MP, but his days may be numbered 14/10/01 N 8 2>6
Photograph
* Tamara Ingram has nurtured her way to the top of her
profession and she is quitting Saatchi & Saatchi for rival ad
group McCann-Erickson 14/10/01 N 9 1>6 Photograph
* Pearson boss Marjorie Scardino says how she, like the media
giant, will weather the financial storm 21/10/01 N 6 1>6
Photograph, graph
* Colin Powell may be talking about a 'long haul' in the war
against terrorism but the media has neither the stomach nor
finances for a protracted campaign 21/10/01 N 7 1>6
Photographs
* German media giant Bertelsmann is preparing plans to bid for
Carlton Communications when media rules are relaxed next year
- see Business & Industry 28/10/01
* Sunday Business, the financial newspaper has been given until
the middle of next month to find new sources of finance or face
possible closure 28/10/01 N 1 1>4
* Taschen has become a world force in the publishing world,
interview with the husband-and-wife team who've built their
fortune on buildings and breasts - see Taschen, Benedikt &
Angelika 04/11/01
* Toby Young's dream came true when he landed a job on
America's leading magazine, Vanity Fair, but things began to go
horribly wrong… - see Young, Toby 04/11/01
* Piers Morgan has won praise for taking the global crisis - and