Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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First prime ministerial debate as Wordle clouds

16 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

The BBC has published the transcript of the first prime ministerial debates which were broadcast on ITV yesterday.

With a bit of hacking around the text I’ve put together a few Wordle clouds to visualise what the individual contributors said. Entirely unscientific and just for a bit of fun…

Alastair Stewart (ITV host)

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)

Gordon Brown (Labour)

David Cameron (Conservatives)

Audience Members

All speakers overall

Filed Under: Blog, Journalism Tagged With: alastairstewart, davidcameron, election2010, gordonbrown, itv, leadersdebate, nickclegg, wordle

Gordon Brown joins newspaper paywall debate – Press Gazette

13 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Gordon Brown joins newspaper paywall debate – Press Gazette

    Gordon Brown on newspaper paywalls:

    ""I don’t think you are going to be able to put things behind paywalls in the way that people think.

    "People will pay for certain things, and should pay for certain things, but I think there’s a whole sort of element of communication that’s got to be free.

    "People mind paying for basic news.""

    Del.ici.us tags: paywall gordonbrown newspapers onlinenews business

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PM to announce 6 May general election – BBC News

6 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    PM to announce 6 May general election – BBC News
    “TUESDAY’S TIMETABLE
    8.30am – Nick Clegg to address Liberal Democrat supporters

    10am – Gordon Brown departs for an audience with the Queen
    10.30am – David Cameron to address Tory supporters
    11am – Gordon Brown to formally announce date of election at Downing Street”

    Del.ici.us tags: election2010 gordonbrown timetable

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