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Category: Journalism

  • Covering disasters

    Went to Oxford last night to hear Glenda Cooper’s excellent Guardian lecture about covering disasters and the collusion between journalists and aid agencies, among other things. Potted version here. Will post more when it’s all online.

  • Journalism: the ethics of booze and fast cars

    In the mid-1990s, when Jeremy Clarkson was young and engaging (charming, actually), I turned up to do a TV interview with him. He had a small house in West London, and he couldn’t have been more helpful. Parked outside was a top of the line black Volvo 850 (the T-5, I think), the family runaround,…

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  • Bernstein blames public for journalism’s woes

    Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has been pushing his Hillary Clinton biography, a mission that took him to a Connecticut school. Kids whose parents may not have been born when Watergate happened, had a chance to hear the man himself blame the public for failing to be interested in what journalism offered them. He addressed a…