Tim Forrest

Jul 22, 2024 | linkedin.com | Tim Forrest

Has Britain's news industry just tasted a new secret sauce? Is a format that has been with us for decades - and often involves little more than chatting about topics that we'd otherwise be talking about anyway - now offering a way for newsrooms to find new, younger and more affluent audiences? After an election in which British news providers went massive on microphones and potty about podcasts, what happens next?

May 23, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Tim Forrest

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Feb 18, 2024 | linkedin.com | Tim Forrest

To no one's great surprise, Piers Morgan has ditched a linear television station that almost no one was watching for the promise of meeting the masses online. The greatest shock about Talk TV was that it ever became a 24 hour Ofcom-regulated news channel at all. An even greater shock was that it arrived just as GB News tried to pull off exactly the same trick of trying make news channels destinations of choice for a nation which, at best, had grown used to watching Sky News on mute at the gym.

Dec 30, 2023 | linkedin.com | Tim Forrest

Close your eyes and picture the coming year’s biggest stories. 2024 - the year everyone everywhere goes to the polls. The battle buses, the counts, the winners smiles and losers grimaces. Wars in Europe, in the Middle East, in Africa. The Olympics, The Euros, the Africa Cup of Nations. Guaranteed Goliaths of picture stories await, but the certainty of enormous audiences watching the daily news bulletins they’ll fill are no longer a given.

May 18, 2017 | medium.com | Tim Forrest