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Month: February 2007

  • The latest Holovaty project is on Bill Clinton‘s speaking engagements. Interestingly Bill’s cheapest job in the UK was for the LSE back in 2001 – a snip at just over US$28k…compare that to his normal US$125-250k (in case you wanted to book him for a summer party).

  • Get blogging, get plagiarising…

    Chris Cobler‘s injunction to journalists to get blogging has attracted some attention. He’s just become the managing editor of US website Poynter Online, which aims to raise standards in journalism (it’s one of my personal faves). He was also, until recently, in charge of the Greeley Tribune, which has just admitted ripping off stories from…

  • James Bays

    Old hollow legs himself is alive and well, after becoming a brief guest of the Taliban. The Al Jazeera English reporter found himself the story for a while, along with three Afghan colleagues: Afghan militants capture, release Al-Jazeera journalists Militants in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province captured four journalists of Arab television network the Al-Jazeera and…

  • Martha Kearney is the new voice on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, or WATO as the BBC calls it in true public school style. Martha is married to my ex-boss, and she also happens to be one of the BBC’s great broadcasters, intelligent and empathetic. Good luck to her.