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Al Jazeera back in Saudi?
Interesting post suggesting that Al Jazeera may be back in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah summit between Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz resulted in a deal, according to an article in Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida: Saudi Arabia would return its ambassador to Qatar. There has been no Saudi…
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John Simpson: wrong and right about TV news
From John Simpson: All the signs are that British people are simply becoming less interested in the world around them. Once upon a time, we used to think that this kind of isolationism was something particularly American, like high levels of crime, the possession of guns and wide-scale drug addiction. Americans weren’t interested much in…
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Losing Kaplinsky
A source close to Natasha Kaplinsky tells MediaGuardian that she’s trousering £1m a year to join five. BBC insiders reckon Kaplinsky’s loss was the real reason Peter Fincham quit. Five’s news supremo Chris Shaw hammers the keyboard on behalf of the MediaGuardian fairly regularly, so you’d think they’d get a quote off him – but…
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The democratic medium…
From Tom Abate: Summarizing a report from the Internet Advertising Bureau in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers, MediaPost writes: “Internet ad spending remained concentrated among the top 10 sellers online, which accounted for 70 percent of all money spent. Ninety-one percent of all ad dollars online were spent with publishers in the top 50… Search (41%), banners/display…