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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 released […]
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This extraordinary and awful picture of dying photographer 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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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 […]
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On the one hand, they’re putting money into aggressive expansion of the newsgathering base (good strategic move), on the other - people are starting to notice their exposure. Take this from Follow The Media:
It was 1100 CET (0500EST) and having heard on the radio of bombings in Algiers FTM switched on CNN International to see […]
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Reuters CEO Tom Glocer thinks it is no longer either/or. He writes on blogging, Facebooking etc:
…it could be argued, I suppose, that imagination and experimentation should be left to more junior or younger staff, and the chief executive should only perform “serious” duties like strategy formulation and ordering people around.
I think this is a lousy […]
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Every time an agency contract comes up for review at a news organization, there will always be someone saying: “Couldn’t we just do without [insert name of agency here]?” Generally, it is what’s known as a negotiating tactic. This time it’s Tony Maddox of CNN International, and the agency is Reuters, and apparently he means […]
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