Photo: Steve Martin. Used under licence
Hello there. I’m James Cridland, and I’ve been working in radio and new media for the last fifteen years or so. This website kindly links to my blog, and you’ll see the odd blog posting too from me here.
Last week, the great and good from the radio industry met in [...]
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Tagged: conference, radio, radio academy
The title’s taken shamelessly from Simon Schama’s recent BBC TV documentary series, The American Future: a History. And I’ve borrowed it as a way of explaining why I, as a media historian, am involved in something as forward-gazing as New Radio Strategies. Schama’s been conveying, in his usual lucid prose, how present-day American politics is [...]
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One of the problems we face when talking about what’s happening to radio in the digital environment is the lack of clarity about what we mean when we say ‘radio’.
The trouble is, it has come to mean so many different things over the course of its history as a medium.
A radio is a device that [...]
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