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Diversity: the price of success in TV news
The BBC is trumpeting its recent surge in 24-hour news, according to the Guardian: The BBC head of television news, Peter Horrocks, said: “We are maintaining our traditional values of accuracy and authority, with an emphasis on original journalism and vivid story-telling. “Audiences might have reason to question our competitors’ commitment to news. Sky News…
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Computer Assisted Reporting tool
Although it is only available for Windows and Linux this looks like a very useful tool. It’s called Kirix Strata and is a data browser that’s currently in beta. I’ll have to wait for a Mac version.
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Extra-judicial killing and Islam
Dispatches reporter Phil Rees last night made much of a purportedly rather dangerous sounding man in glasses and a scarf, giving his rather dangerous sounding interpretation of the Qu’ran. Rees’s justification? Journalists need to present the views of radical Muslims in a way that does not push them toward further violence. Journalism has a duty…
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Singing the news…
One early journalistic platform that has thankfully gone uncopied for centuries is the news ballad. Ending stories with a hey-nonny-nonny instead of a sign-off is not about to win over key demographics, nor do I think a Reuters-by-rhyme service is in the offing, but in the sixteenth century the popular medium for news was song.…