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The Independent

My City Uni­ver­sity col­league Neil Thur­man has been busy look­ing at the impact of Brit­ish news web­sites in the United States. And maybe it’s time for the tip­ping of web pages into the Second Life equi­val­ent of Boston Har­bour. Here’s what he found: — Online, the BBC News web­site gets more US read­ers than Fox News, […]

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My old favour­ite pro­fes­sional aph­or­ism is this: a journalist’s duty is to betray. It neatly and bit­terly encap­su­lates the moral, emo­tional and intel­lec­tual prob­lems of report­ing. But it’s not a tag to be repeated with pride, more of a dirty indus­trial secret. Last night Mohamed Chebaro, of Al Arabiya and a vet­eran of inter­na­tional news report­ing, came up with […]

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In praise of podcasts

March 19, 2007

Pod­casts get a shot across the bows from ‘viewspa­per’ editor and accom­plished con­tro­ver­sial­ist Simon Kel­ner: Kel­ner is endear­ingly con­temp­tu­ous of multi– plat­form journ­al­ism, espe­cially when it comes to pod and vod­casts. “I’ve never met any­one who ever listens to pod– casts,” he explodes. “When I saw in the Tele­graph ‘Get your pod­cast of Simon Hef­fer dis­cuss­ing David […]

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Let me make a con­fes­sion. I have no sym­pathy for the polit­ical goals of the UK Inde­pend­ence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre Brit­ish minor­ity party, with a pro­foundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP sup­porter men­tioned that there was a media cam­paign against his party — well, the words ‘para­noid’ and ‘delu­sional’ came pop­ping into my head. But I had a quick trawl back […]

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Mitchell Steph­ens in the Columbia Journ­al­ism Review has seen the future of journ­al­ism. It’s the Inde­pend­ent: The Inde­pend­ent is a ser­i­ous Eng­lish national daily in a mar­ket with three other ser­i­ous national dailies. So the Inde­pend­ent, look­ing for an edge, has begun devot­ing most of its front page, weekly­like, to a single story — a story covered with considerable […]

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January 7, 2007

As Andrew Grant-Adamson has poin­ted to the Indy’s blog drought, here’s a piece from the AJR on blogs and newspapers.

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