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Harold Evans on the New York Times
Great interview with Harold Evans in the Independent: “Should The New York Times be redesigned? Absolutely,” he says. “To give you one simple example of newspaper design. If you have one very attentive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to follow a section jump, from the first section to C…
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Tabloid Tokyo Storm Warning*
Ryann Connell is big in Japan. He is co-author of the series, Tabloid Tokyo: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan’s Wild Weeklies – here’s a review: [Connell] and his colleagues have done us all a big favour in translating dozens of these funny, sexy, tragic and sometimes downright bizarre articles and…
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links for 2008-07-21
How to search for information within social networking sites | Journalism.co.uk What it says on the tin… (tags: MySpace privacy Google reporting social-networking search media journalism internet facebook ethics tips writing) Stop the new FISA: allowing the new surveillance law to stand would seriously cripple our free press | Los Angeles Times This law will…
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Britain seen from the US
Thomson Reuters boss Tom Glocer has a frank posting from Sun Valley (your own private Idaho). Glocer, who was based in London until recently, is now back in the US and tells it like it is on the real value of the “special relationship”: The US has pursued a unilateralist approach to world affairs over…