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Greg Dyke on Today
The current external handicaps faced by the organisation in respect of Charter Review would be greatly relieved in the wake of Greg’s departure.Obviously no-one on the Today programme has read Greg Dyke‘s Inside Story. The intro for the Dyke interview today, going over the minutes from the Governors’ meetings (which the BBC had sought to…
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BBC ‘acquisitions’ saga
Rafat Ali takes The Guardian to task for their BBC exclusive: The BBC has set up a £350m war chest for expansion into social networking on the internet and international acquisitions, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. He points out that in September 2006, the Mail on Sunday reported: BBC Worldwide is looking to take on commercial media…
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News: "a really expensive, exhaustive exercise…"
Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It’s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story — a…