What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times’ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command:
Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us through a normal work day for The Times’s executive editor?
— Devin Banerjee, Stanford, Calif. Continue reading
I was one of the people interviewed for Andrew Currah’s What’s Happening to Our News, which is out today. Don’t let that put you off. Andrew’s an economic geographer — different, I guess, from a geographic economist — maybe it’s an economist who knows where he is. Continue reading
In the Jerusalem Post, Mitchell Barak calls for an Israeli Al Jazeera English. Continue reading
Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza.
As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under attack himself, from predictable quarters:
High-Profile Doctor in Gaza Called an ‘Apologist for Hamas’ — Fox News
Norwegian Doctors in Gaza: Objective Observers or Partisan Propagandists? — Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
Mads Gilbert — Doctor, Pundit, Shill for Terrorism — Harry’s Place Continue reading