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What the US military thinks of journalism
So what does the US military really think about journalists? Below are excerpts from a report that addresses wider issues about the first Battle of Fallujah but contains some interesting points about “information operations,” in Orwellian milspeak. The document is chiefly the work of Jane Austen fan Dr Sean Edwards, on whom more below. But…
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Do Readers Know What They Want?
That was the title of a speech by Vinod Mehta, editor of Indian magazine Outlook, as he picked up the International Press Institute award for exposing corruption and incompetence in the Indian navy. Here is a little excerpt: [C]ontent is a mix of what the reader wants and what he does not want. The trick…
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Restoring trust, one performance measure at a time
When it comes to the BBC, putting sense on the radio is a lot easier than putting it into practice. Here is future BBC Director-General, and former Radio 4 controller, Helen Boaden posting at the BBC Editors blog on restoring trust in the Beeb this year. She begins with a little reminder of her radio…