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Good old-fashioned reporting

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008

Good reporting, the old-fashioned way. Thanks to Mike Hills for the heads up on this video.

The Chicago Tribune Guide to Newspaper Reporting (circa 1955) [KevinP1468].
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Magazine covers…

Tuesday, 15 April, 2008

[The peerless Onion - HT: Jeremy Leslie]

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The mysterious Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, 1 April, 2008

As the Wall Street Journal staffs up to broaden its appeal, bemusement here over the WSJ plan.
The focus on America seems odd. Is the U.S. crying out for a national newspaper? Won’t widening the WSJ offering necessarily reduce the business focus?
After all if you want to lose money with a conservative national daily - why not try […]

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TV News: faking it in the good old days

Monday, 11 February, 2008

I stumbled upon this TV news “fakery” classic from the early 1960s, which comes care of CBS veteran Daniel Schorr’s memoir, Clearing The Air. Schorr is lunching his boss, CBS chief, Bill Paley.

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How to argue in circles

Sunday, 10 February, 2008

Writing in the FT, Pablo Eisenberg provides a great example of fuzzy thinking on journalism. And also a lesson in how to write in circles.
For a decade, the print media have been the only effective mechanism for keeping non-profit organisations open and accountable. The outstanding investigative work of the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the […]

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Roger Ailes gave an interview to members of Britain’s House of Lords Communications select committee. You can read it below:

Minute of the meeting with Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, Fox News17 September, New York
24. The Committee met with Mr Ailes accompanied by his colleagues David Rhodes, Vice President of Fox News, John Moody, Executive Vice President of […]

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The CBS Evening News business

Thursday, 13 September, 2007

How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics):
Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked for […]

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