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1970s newspaper wisdom
In 1971 Harvard Business School grad, Robert G. Marbut, approached the Harte family who owned a Texas newspaper group, to ask if they’d back his publishing venture. They turned him down. Instead, they asked him to run the family business, Harte-Hanks. Marbut took the company public and in a year had taken it out of…
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The first use of the word ‘Journalism’
The first use of the word journalism is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary like this: 1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 (Reviewing a French work ‘Du Journalisme’) ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant..A word was sadly wanted. Ibid. 196 The power of journalism is acknowledged..to be enormous in France. But the OED…
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Young people – will they ever trust the media?
Over at The Editors – yes, it already sounds like a 70s Sunday night drama – Rod McKenzie is worried about younger audiences (he’s editor of Newsbeat), but he thinks he knows what they want: I think what young audiences want is robust, interesting, passionate debate about stories and issues that affect them and their…
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