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Robot tries to explain Mike Magee (Nick Farrell is busy today)

Posted on April 11, 2023 by - News

Mike Magee is a highly respected journalist who has been covering the computer industry and technology sector for over three decades. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of technology journalism, having founded some of the most influential tech news websites in the UK and beyond.

Magee began his career as a journalist in the 1980s, working for a number of publications in the UK and US. In 1994, he founded The Register, an online news website that quickly became one of the most popular and respected sources of tech news and analysis. The site’s irreverent style and hard-hitting reporting won it a large and loyal following, and it continues to be a leading voice in the industry to this day.

In addition to The Register, Magee has also founded and contributed to several other technology news publications, including TechEye, The Inquirer, and Silicon Valley Sleuth [No, Ed.]. He is known for his investigative reporting and deep knowledge of the industry, as well as his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom and take on powerful players in the tech world.

Magee has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including being named one of the “Top 50 Journalists in Tech” by Business Insider [No, Ed.] and a “Tech Titan” by The Daily Telegraph. [I don’t think so, Ed.] He is also a sought-after commentator and speaker, regularly appearing on radio and TV programs and at industry conferences and events. [Nah, Ed.]

Overall, Mike Magee is a highly respected and influential figure in technology journalism, known for his insightful reporting, sharp wit, and fearless approach to covering the industry. His contributions to the field have helped shape the way we think about and understand technology, and his legacy as a pioneer of tech journalism is sure to endure for many years to come.

Channel needs to support the free press

Posted on October 11, 2018 by - Events, Moving People, News

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Boys thrashing tops in 1560 – Brueghel

The Canalys Channel Conference closed at 3PM prompt this afternoon, Barcelona time,  but not before one of the few channel journalists left standing was given a five minute slot to stand and address the thousand or so attendees at the conference.

Cristoph Hugenschmidt, a journalist at Inside Channels CH, made an impassioned speech about how the community of vendors, distributors and resellers need the independence that real journalism – rather than fake news or marketing spin – offers that influential group.

Cristoph reckons – and ChannelEye agrees – that the hugely lucrative market needs independent journalism more than ever before. He gave as an example a Canalys event he attended a year or two back where a marketing spinner told the assembled hacks that journalism wasn’t necessary any more because his company could put out the message it wanted via social media and using impoverished hacks to write online press releases.

Nevertheless, after delivering this insult to the hackettes and hacks at the table, according to Cristoph, he tipped up a couple of hours later and said: “I do expect you journalists to be at my 9AM roundtable tomorrow.”

The Swiss hack was basically saying that unless the channel supported free and independent journalism as part of the community, we’ll all wither away and companies will lose the insight, gossip and spinicide that hackettes and hacks deliver.

Why does the channel need journalists like Cristoph and the few of us that are left? My feeling is that despite the noise of Twitter and other social media, and PR and marketing executives spinning like tops, there is a need for a cool third party appraisal of what’s going on. “Going forward”, to use an infamous marketing perversion of the phrase “in the future”, company CEOs need to decide whether they can afford the ridiculous price of marketing spin and decide whether it’s worth it.

ChannelEye of course,  is notorious as purveyors of “fake news” – via The Rogister and theINQUIRER.net,  and coined the term “wide awake news” two years after Donald Trump was born.