What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times’ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command:
Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us through a normal work day for The Times’s executive editor?
— Devin Banerjee, Stanford, Calif. Continue reading
Everyone has one. I have one that’s repeatable. Julian was the reporter who got the hair-dryer treatment from Robert Mugabe in Sharm el-Sheik.
Julian can take it. He’s a former colleague and most decidedly not a pack operator.
Let’s just say he doesn’t rely on favours from competitors to get the job done. Continue reading
Mister Bays, my old colleague from Five News days, is now plying his trade at Al Jazeera English. James picked up a second place at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his reporting from Afghanistan. Here he is from May, 2007:
British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms and analysis. Continue reading