adrian monck

Month: July 2007

  • Investigative Journalism

    We’re hosting the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School from next Friday, 20 July. Seymour Hersh will deliver the keynote. You can go to www.tcij.org for more details and to register for the Summer School. Speakers include David Leigh, Lowell Bergman, Tom Mangold, Sharon Tiller, David Donald, Ali Fadhil, Stephen Grey, Mark Hunter, Tommy Kaas,…

  • Royal reporting 101: contrast and compare…

    Whilst the BBC is apologizing for misleading people…

  • The Queen

    Thanks to the Guardian, the promo that the absurd BBC row was about… First point – is she really having a go at Annie Leibovitz? It sounds like royal joshing… Second point – it certainly doesn’t show her walking off in a huff, it’s just a simple shot transposition that could make you leap to…

  • Putting commenters in context

    Comments have had a lot of play recently, what with Marc Andreessen turning them off, and US newspapers banning anonymous ones. So is comment worth it? I like the ones I get on this blog, because the responses are invariably interesting and engaged (flattery etc.). But is context important for comment? I did a little…