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Beyond Trust…

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Fathers and SonsA new book, Bey­ond Trust picks up some of the issues raised in Can You Trust The Media?

Here’s Kevin Marsh, sid­ing with Andrew Gil­ligan, in view­ing the book as nihilistic:

Journalism’s jour­ney – in Pro­fessor Larry Sabato’s (1991) descrip­tion – from ‘lap­dog, through watch­dog to junk­yard dog’ with all that entails in loss of pub­lic trust is, in part at least, legit­im­ised by a strand of aca­demic think­ing. Pro­fessor Adrian Monck of City Uni­ver­sity Lon­don, con­cluded in his book Can You Trust The Media? (2008) that we were mis­guided even to think that we should. Con­tinue read­ing →

Medical journalism: doctors warn of conflicting interests

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PillsThe Brit­ish Med­ical Journal has a piece out — Who’s Watch­ing The Watch­dogs?* — about con­flicts of interest between med­ical journ­al­ists and big pharma.

Yes, med­ical journ­al­ism is not travel journ­al­ism. The art­icle begins:

Doc­tors should be wary of the increas­ing entan­gle­ment of med­ical journ­al­ists and the drug industry, warn Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, and Ray Moynihan.

Con­tinue read­ing →

Job-hunting for young journalists

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Job search

Advice doesn’t come any bet­ter than this — from the excel­lent Edit­or­i­al­iste:

  • Send in applic­a­tions every­where you think you’ve got a shot — then prove it to each com­pany in your applic­a­tion. It’s worth the time to tailor your applic­a­tion, even if you never hear back.
  • When you’ve sent out all that you can, send more. I can’t stress this enough. The job search becomes exhaust­ing, but you must persist.

    • Con­tinue read­ing →

Saving journalism, one summit at a time

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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 →