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Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences).
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks […]
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Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s micro-mogul, usually has a nice line in online media business analysis. But here, alas, he disappoints [my italics]:
1. Get out of categories such as politics to which advertisers are averse.… media groups cannot afford in the current environment to fund their most noble missions; they should leave that to public-spirited non-profits […]
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I like lawyers. They always smile, even when they’re not actually billing you.
Big hats off to Andy Scott of the LSE’s law department for bringing together a terrific cast of what we in journalism would - rather unimaginatively - call “top lawyers.”
It was Chatham House rules, but the lawyers thought:
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Lasantha Wickrematunga
