Ghanaians Dont Read Aug 10, 2008
Earlier, the Public Relations Officer, Ewurama Greenslade stressed that Readwide had undertaken various activities to promote reading in the country, indicating that last year the company launched the Read for Life Campaign which saw the formation of reading and book clubs in schools and colleges across the country. With the belief that football was gaining popularity in the country and could therefore be used as an effective tool to promote reading, Readwide, she revealed, recently hosted... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Madeleine suspect in damages win Jul 16, 2008
Roy GreensladeMedia commentator ... Media commentator and journalism professor Roy Greenslade said the case showed newspapers had "lost their heads" over the Madeleine story. (BBC News -- Europe)
Martin Kelly: The face of compassion May 24, 2008
Roy Greenslade, the media commentator and step-father of Ms McElhone, said: "He was truly a magnificent man as a surgeon, as a father, as a husband. As well as being a brilliant doctor, he painted, he wrote his own music as well as being a great sportsman. He was just terrific and a true Renaissance man." ... Mr Greenslade said the couple had an exceptionally warm and close marriage. (Independent)
British "king of rhinoplasty" Martin Kelly dies at 42 May 22, 2008
Kelly's father-in-law Roy Greenslade said family, friends and colleagues were in "complete shock" at the death of "a truly magnificent man.". "As well as being a brilliant doctor, he painted, wrote his own music (and was] a great sportsman. He was just terrific and a true Renaissance man," Greenslade added. (Xinhuanet, China)
Veterans to march alone Apr 22, 2008
Posted by: Stephen Greenslade on April 22, 2008 6:51 AM. over the 43 years I have been alive, Anzac Day has grown in popularity, Australians are making sure that we remember by participation, if the NSW RSL do not let decendents march this will be lost. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Farlowes fame Feb 17, 2008
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Britney Spears: why the paparazzo and Alastair Campbell are so upset Feb 4, 2008
RoyGreenslade Comment No.. RichardX, I rather like to think that, on this subject - as with so any others - Alastair is MY mouthpiece. (Media Guardian)
X Factor Rhydian fans' vote anger Dec 18, 2007
Gwyneth Greenslade, from Llandrindod Wells, Powys, told the BBC News website she had phoned 10 times and could not get through ... "If you ring 10 times you expect to get through - I was very cross," said Mrs Greenslade. (BBC News)
Indie bands go online to seek funds from fans Oct 29, 2007
Jamie Greenslade, a rapper originally from New Zealand, said that he spent a lot of time writing e-mails and that the fans "really want to get inside your process." Lily Vasquez, who is in the process of recording her Sellaband-funded album, likewise said that she was in touch with some of the investors on a daily basis. Despite the constant communication, neither artist felt any significant pressure from the investors to change their music. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Bad News at the BBC Oct 26, 2007
"The BBC's problems are manifold," says Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and now a journalism professor at London's City University ... How did it come to this, that an institution revered for the quality of its output, a global role model for public-service broadcasting, the backbone and guardian of British life, "monolithic and ingrained into our culture," in Greenslade's words, should suddenly seem so vulnerable. (Time.com)
Bang goes Beefy Sep 30, 2007
But here his former agent tells Nick Greenslade how close the cricketer came to being the next Stallone. Sunday September 30, 2007Observer Sport Monthly. (Guardian Unlimited)
Celebrities: our part in their downfall Aug 12, 2007
Roy Greenslade, a professor of journalism at London's City University and a former editor of Britain's celebrity-driven Daily Mirror, has seen the phenomenon up close ... " [The media] must go on producing, and reproducing, the famous," Greenslade says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'The irritant label has stuck. I think it's fantastic' Jun 3, 2007
My problem with [media commentator Roy] Greenslade is not that he had a pop at me, but you do expect someone who's known me a long time to write the truth. He wrote stuff about me when I left the Sun, saying I was standing around in Wapping pubs slagging off Rupert Murdoch and the paper's subeditors. (Guardian Unlimited)
- Polly Toynbee Apr 3, 2007
Media analyst Roy Greenslade, totting up national figures, finds 76% of daily readership belongs to the right - the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mail, Express, Star. Only 24% belongs to the non-right - the Guardian, Independent, Mirror and Financial Times (though the FT has moved rightwards of late). (Guardian Unlimited)
Are you reading this, Piers? Apr 1, 2007
A former Mirror editor, Roy Greenslade, also criticises Trinity Mirror: "I don't have any qualms about management taking money when it is a reward for success, but when it is rewarding such abysmal failure, it stinks.". Amid this discontent, Wallace faces a greater problem : the continuing decline of mass-market newspapers and the pressing need to innovate. (Independent)
Airport sell-off nets county 60m Jan 6, 2007
Council leader Brian Greenslade said the council had doubled its money after a previous attempt to sell failed ... Council leader Brian Greenslade ... Mr Greenslade said: "We have effectively doubled our money in just 12 months compared to the net figure the county council would have received had the first sale process last year been concluded. "It is a vindication of our decision to put the airport back on the market again and the value of exercising cool, measured judgement. (BBC News)
