Month: July 2008

  • links for 2008-07-05

    Journalism 101 at the Islamic University of Gaza | Menassat “The majority of professors are just academic, and they lack professional expertise in the actual marketplace, which makes things even more difficult for a freshly graduated journalist trying to get a job.” (tags: j-school journalism gaza middle-east) Ageism | Madame Arcati “Journalism is run by…

  • Charles Wheeler

    The Telegraph can’t help getting a sneering dig into broadcasting even as it remembers Charles Wheeler: Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC foreign correspondent who has died aged 85, was the last working member of the stylish post-war school of television reporting and was one of the few British television journalists to whom the term distinguished…

  • links for 2008-07-04

    Channel 4 ponders move into regional news as ITV retreats | Media | guardian.co.uk Channel 4 is considering a move into regional news in a bid to fill the gap left by ITV cutbacks and help increase the chances of an overall public service broadcasting settlement. (tags: channel-4 regional-news)

  • links for 2008-07-03

    1,000 years of urban history: the rise and fall of European and Arab cities | vox [The] development in Europe of an economically well integrated urban system largely independent of large territorial states, spurred on by the effect of the Great Discoveries … can explain to a large extent why London, an economic backwater in…