Andrew Wylie, literary agent, returned for another Monday address to the BBC, this time as a participant in The World At One's week-long series on the future of publishing. Mr. Wylie criticized publishers for giving 30 percent of potential profits over to what he called "digital device holders" like Amazon and Apple. “I think Read More
The Observer normally listens to the BBC News Hour while getting ready in the morning, and today we were struck with a real surprise that changed our view of the city ever so much. Read More
As approval ratings for Barack Obama continue to decline at home, world opinion of the United States is rising steadily under his stewardship. A new international survey by the British Broadcasting Company reveals that views of the U.S. around the world have “improved sharply” during the first year of the Obama presidency, with positive opinion Read More
NPR, NYTimes.com and NBC.com were among this year's top Webby Award winners. Organizers from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced the winners this morning, along with the results of The Webby People's Voice Awards.
The Guardian won the Webby for best newspaper Web site. It was a winner for Read More
We have a well-documented love of Doctor Who here at the Observer, so we'd be remiss if we didn't comment on the announcement from this weekend that a replacement for beloved fop David Tennant, who will leave the show after filming a few specials this year, has finally been found. And the Read More
Stop us if you've heard this one before... According to Page Six The Magazine, some Manhattan parents are so desperate to give their children a leg-up on their peers, they're sending them to Mandarin classes! (And Hindi! And French! And German!)
Page Six's Jennifer Rose quotes a parent named Brett Hauser, who pays Read More
Like most everyone else, we're iffy on James Lipton, who hosts Inside the Actor's Studio. Or maybe we're just jealous, because he has the best job in the world. Either way, we'll be recording tonight when he talks to comedian Dave Chappelle for the show's 200th episode. Or rather, Read More
“It’s the oft-stated phrase that truth is the first casualty of war,” said Michael Ware, CNN’s Baghdad correspondent, on the telephone from Iraq. “In this war, as in every other conflict, everybody lies to you. Your government is lying to you. The Iraqi government is lying. The insurgents are lying. The militias are lying. The Read More
Although journalists on this side of the Atlantic have more or less stopped asking the question, Michael Bloomberg was Read More
It was 1993 when Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was honored as the best novel to have ever won theMan Booker Prize for Fiction in the prestigious literary accolade’s 25-year history. Now, Booker has announced it will present a second one-off award, “The Best of the Booker,” to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Read More
"Lambert was also the BBC's only female producer in 1963 when she worked on the time-travel drama that grew to become Read More
According to Guardian Unlimited, the BBC has postponed for a few more weeks their plans to start mining their ranks in search of 1800 redundancies.
"Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Unite had threatened to ballot their members from this afternoon if the BBC went ahead with an immediate call for redundancies from Read More
