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News at Ten
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The future of Channel 4
David Lloyd calls for a new public endowment for Channel 4 in the Guardian today. It’s an edit of a very entertaining lecture he gave at City University last Tuesday – and which we’ll post soon on our website. He mischievously fuelled speculation that Mark Thompson wasn’t the first choice for Channel 4 CEO when…
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The Dead Journalists Society (sponsored by Uzbekistan)
Has a new member, Alisher Saipov. Saipov was shot dead outside his office. Of course, there is no evidence connecting the murder of this critic of the Uzbek regime and aforesaid repressive regime. Why only the other week, the European Union was offering Uzbekistan a little carrot, to encourage it to repress a little more…
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Why be a journalist?
Why be a journalist? The recent Forbes report that listed journalism as an endangered profession has got an answer from the ever readable John Robinson: What a crock … the report ignores the two reasons that everyone I’ve ever met in print journalism got into the business: they love the work and they want to…