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Reu­ters has released a video (see below) show­ing what appears to be the Israeli tank fir­ing the round that — it’s claimed — killed cam­era­man Fadel Shana. The first thing to note is the dis­tance that Shana is from the tank, prob­ably a Merkava 4 with a 105mm gun fir­ing flechette rounds. Flechettes? Flechettes are razor-sharp 3.75mm darts […]

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Pulitzer pictures…

April 7, 2008

This extraordin­ary and awful pic­ture of dying phở­to­grapher Kenji Nagai from Burma remains mem­or­able months on. It won Adrees Latif of Reu­ters a Pulitzer prize.

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Marc Andreessen remarked recently a pro­pos the inter­net and the media, that most car com­pan­ies didn’t emerge from horse car­riage mak­ing. Admit­tedly that sum­mary mis­rep­res­ents the long period of devel­op­ment of a whole host of automobile-related tech­no­lo­gies: fuel pro­cessing, engine devel­op­ment, machine tools. Reu­ters boss — and former law­yer — Tom Glo­cer has another take, that I would […]

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Arguing against Nick Davies

February 4, 2008

Brit­ish writer Nick Dav­ies is an inspir­a­tion to a lot of young journ­al­ists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writ­ing on social issues here). But now he has moved from cov­er­ing drugs and crim­inal justice to report on journ­al­ism. And in doing so, he com­mis­sioned some research to back up his cri­ti­cisms and […]

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