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From journalism to public information
Journalism has many bastard children: PR, marcomms, opinion polling. It’s not proud of them, and they return the favour. So how about a chip off the old block that journalism could be proud of? A new discipline that journalism could pat kindly on the head. I’m talking about something deeply unsexy – public information. Now…
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RSS problems
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The Wall Street Journal should read its own history
An owner “most properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.” WSJ, 1925Anyone considering the absurd talk of editorial strictures being put around the Wall Street Journal prior to its possible purchase by Rupert Murdoch might want to look into the Journal’s own archives. Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, “A…
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BBC World News Today
I have a piece at the Guardian today reviewing the Beeb’s revamp of its international newscast, The World – now World News Today (World News Tonight already belonging to ABC). Basically, the UK scheduling puts this up against Britain’s equivalent of NewsHour, and that’s got people asking why the BBC is duplicating something already offered…