Saving journalism, one summit at a time

World Economic Forum Summit on the Global AgendaLike Jeff Jar­vis, I too was in Dubai for the World Eco­nomic Forum’s inaug­ural Sum­mit on the Global Agenda. Charlie Beck­ett (whose upsum­mer is here) and I were in the Future of Media group. So what was our dia­gnosis of the state of journalism?

Well, here it is. We did talk about cen­sor­ship and val­ues — but remem­ber what Oscar Wilde said about a camel being a horse designed by a com­mit­tee: Con­tinue read­ing

Zimbabwe: War reporting vs. travel writing

Zimbabwe: policeman and fleeing protesterWhilst journ­al­ists like the Guard­ian’s Chris McGreal were report­ing from inside Zim­b­abwe in June (Zimbabwe’s voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bul­let), oth­ers were get­ting a more — well — ‘con­sidered’ view. Con­tinue read­ing