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Britain’s journalism union, the NUJ, has released a 9’ video detailing the problems faced by “media workers” (reporter proletarians?) covering demonstrations. It’s below:

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The gap left by the Fairfax strike

Sunday, 31 August, 2008

In 1945, sociologist Bernard Berelson took advantage of a newspaper delivery strike in New York to do some research, later published as What ‘Missing The Newspaper’ Means.
With 500 Aussie journos on strike (see their website), I thought it might be instructive to revisit a few of Berelson’s observations, to see how they held up today.

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Courage and impotence in journalism

Wednesday, 7 May, 2008

There is an exceptional and very poignant post from a sacked Chinese journalist translated and reproduced at the China Digital Times:
I am afraid of other people praising me as a brave newspaperman, because I know I am full of fear in my heart. I did write some commentaries on current affairs, and edited some articles that […]

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