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Why be a journalist?

Saturday, 27 October, 2007

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 change […]

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How television made money

Wednesday, 5 September, 2007

A brief account of how network bosses make money from Dan Lyons at Forbes, aka Fake Steve Jobs:
What the fuck is a television network? It’s a system of affiliates designed to help carry a broadcast signal across the wide continent of America on airwaves and into television sets owned by millions of people. In essence, […]

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1970s newspaper wisdom

Monday, 9 July, 2007

In 1971 Harvard Business School grad, Robert G. Marbut, approached the Harte family who owned a Texas newspaper group, to ask if they’d back his publishing venture. They turned him down. Instead, they asked him to run the family business, Harte-Hanks. Marbut took the company public and in a year had taken it out of […]

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