Tag: Dubai

  • Saving journalism, one summit at a time

    Like 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…

  • Zimbabwe: War reporting vs. travel writing

    Whilst 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.